Edinburgh’s Hogmanay live event had been cancelled because of Covid-19, to be replaced with the web-delivered sky theatre of 150 drones flying together in synced formations, & Loch Arkaig had been chosen as a suitably out-of-the-way location with the right backdrop of loch & mountains for the displays, some of which would later be composited onto footage of Edinburgh & its surroundings.

With extremely poor weather forecasts & limited slots for the drone swarm flying, which had to be done at dawn or dusk with 4+ hours of battery charging the drones between flights, there was massive pressure on the whole team together with several days of 5am starts & 11pm finishes. Underbelly had arranged for the creation of an extraordinary base & stage by the side of the loch, 18 miles down a single track road so once we were all there each day, we were there for the duration!