A sunny day in Stromness, Orkney - DJ MINI3 Pro 4K - June 2023 - Beautiful historic town from above

A sunny day in Stromness, taken on the same day as we filmed the Hamnavoe in Hoy Sound and the close run in with an Oystercatcher, which made me very cautious of flying to low, hence most of this video is from a decent height - which also kept the video transmission strong.
Another visit is perhaps needed to redo this from a little lower altitude and with some more variety of footage, but it is what it is, and it still makes for a pretty enough video...
Drone - 'Mighty Midge' - DJI MINI3 Pro
Edited using - DaVinci Resolve 18 (beta)
Music - Ged A Sheòl Mi Air M' Aineol - Julie Fowlis
From Wikipedia
Stromness (locally /ˈstrʌmnɪs/, Old Norse: Straumnes; Norn: Stromnes) is the second-most populous town in Orkney, Scotland. It is in the southwestern part of Mainland Orkney. It is a burgh with a parish around the outside with the town of Stromness as its capital.
Etymology
The name "Stromness" comes from the Norse Straumnes. Straumr refers to the strong tides that rip past the Point of Ness through Hoy Sound to the south of the town. Nes means "headland". Stromness thus means "headland protruding into the tidal stream". In Viking times the anchorage where Stromness now stands was called Hamnavoe.
Town
A long-established seaport, Stromness has a population of approximately 2,500 residents. The old town is clustered along the characterful and winding main street, flanked by houses and shops built from local stone, with narrow lanes and alleys branching off it. There is a ferry link from Stromness to Scrabster on the north coast of mainland Scotland.
First recorded as the site of an inn in the sixteenth century, Stromness became important during the late seventeenth century, when Great Britain was at war with France and shipping was forced to avoid the English Channel. Ships of the Hudson's Bay Company were regular visitors, as were whaling fleets. Large numbers of Orkneymen, many of whom came from the Stromness area, served as traders, explorers and seamen for both. Captain Cook's ships, Discovery and Resolution, called at the town in 1780 on their return voyage from the Hawaiian Islands, where Captain Cook had been killed.
Stromness Museum reflects these aspects of the town's history (displaying for example important collections of whaling relics, and Inuit artefacts brought back as souvenirs by local men from Greenland and Arctic Canada).
At Stromness Pierhead is a statue by North Ronaldsay sculptor Ian Scott, depicting John Rae standing erect with an inscription describing him as "the discoverer of the final link in the first navigable Northwest Passage", which was unveiled in 2013.
Parish
The parish of Stromness includes the islands of Hoy and Graemsay in addition to a tract of land about 5 by 3+3⁄4 miles (8.0 by 6.0 kilometres) on Mainland Orkney. The Mainland part is bounded on the west by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south and southeast by Hoy Sound, and on the northeast by the Loch of Stenness.
Antiquities include Breckness House, erected in 1633 by George Graham, Bishop of Orkney, at the west entrance of Hoy Sound.
Media and the arts
The Stromness branch of the Orkney library is housed in a building given to the library service in 1905 by Mrs Marjory Skea Corrigall.
Writer George Mackay Brown was born and lived most of his life in the town, and is buried in the town's cemetery overlooking Hoy Sound. His poem "Hamnavoe" is set in the town, and is in part a memorial to his father John, a local postman.
Stromness is named in the title of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies's popular piano piece "Farewell to Stromness", a piano interlude from The Yellow Cake Revue, which was written to protest at plans to open a uranium mine in the area. (The title refers to yellowcake, the powder produced in an early stage of the processing of uranium ore.) The Revue was first performed by the composer at the Stromness Hotel on 21 June 1980, as part of the St Magnus Festival; plans for the uranium mine were cancelled later that year.
Stromness is also the title of a 2009 novel by Herbert Wetterauer.
Stromness plays host to the Pier Arts Centre, a collection of twentieth-century British art given to the people of Orkney by artists such as Margaret Gardiner.
Geology
Stromness presents to the Atlantic a range of cliffs between 100 and 500 feet (30 and 150 metres) high, and to Hoy Sound a band of fertile lowlands. The rocks possess great geological interest, and were made well known by the publication of the evangelical geologist Hugh Miller, The Footprints of the Creator or The Asterolepsis of Stromness (1849)
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[@ОлесьМогила]

thank you !

[@albiondrones]

Thanks for watching :)

[@eyeintheskydrone4k]

Looks Stunning well captured and the music matches perfectly 👍

[@albiondrones]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it

[@johnnymac26]

Great footage loved it

[@albiondrones]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it :)

[@starshipwonaprize-dronevideos]

Looks a lovely place - the lifeboat station stands out a mile!

[@albiondrones]

Thanks Paul, yup, its resplendant in red isnt it... Want to go back now and get some closer / lower footage :)

[@douglaslee-murray952]

The song seems to be Gaelic, but they don’t speak Gaelic in Orkney.😢

[@albiondrones]

Thanks for pointing that out, the song is one by a favourite artist of mine, and I was going with something I thought would fit the mood and the beauty of the town, so it is my mistake...
As yet I do not know or have access to any music directly from Orkney, perhaps something to explore from afar in preparation for our next visit to the wonderful Islands...
Happy to take suggestions as to what would be more appropriate :)