Overton Port Eynon, Swansea – BBC One Show Mother of All Challenges for Sports Relief
Here is a short collection of clips shot for the BBC One show “Mother of all Challenges” for Sports Relief with presenter Alex Jones. It was a very early start and a long hike with heavy equipment through muddy fields, but worth it for the breath taking Welsh cliffs and seascapes!
It was great to see a lot of the clips in the final show, that went out live the same day – here is the programme
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p061dlmf
“Alex Jones teamed up with four inspirational Mums as they took on five days of gruelling challenges around the UK for Sport Relief. They put their bodies to the test to raise life-changing money and awareness of important issues around maternal health, with the nation following their journey on The One Show. The team braved the cold as they swam across Scotland’s most famous loch, hiked and cycled some of the Lake Districts most famous passes, battled the Porth Yr Ogof cave in the Brecon Beacons and finished with a cross-country run across the hilly Welsh coast. ” – BBC One Show
A Thermal Picture Is Not a Finding: What a Solar PV Survey Report Has to Carry
A thermal image shows that something on a solar array is warmer than its neighbours. It does not say which module, how much warmer than what, how serious it is, or what should happen next. This is what turns an anomaly into a located, classified and prioritised finding, what the reporting requirements of IEC 62446-3 ask a survey report to carry, and why that document is a different object altogether from a set of thermal pictures.
What Makes a Roof Photograph Worth Having
Roof inspection by drone is a crowded service, and most of it is genuinely the same. What varies is whether the photographs answer the question that prompted the enquiry. This post looks past the flying at the images themselves: why distance, angle and light decide what a frame resolves, how a detail shot becomes evidence when a wider frame places it on the building, and the things no photograph of a roof will ever tell you.
Why a Rooftop Solar Array Is Surveyed From the Air and Not From the Roof
A commercial rooftop solar array sits on somebody's working building, and that single fact decides how it gets inspected. Getting a person to roof level means access equipment and a permit, and the roof covering is not always capable of carrying them. It also puts the camera in the wrong place: IEC 62446-3 wants the thermal image taken square to the module, which nobody standing on a pitched roof can manage. Here is why the survey is flown instead.
