A HALSTEAD man is on a mission to document the town in all its wintry glory through the use of a drone.

Patrick Keeble, 48, has amassed more than 1,000 views on his YouTube channel since starting two months ago.

He said: “I’m trying to get a whole winter look of Halstead, then again at spring to see how much things have changed. People do this and keep it to themselves, put it on a disc and it dies with them, but it makes it worth doing if people are getting pleasure seeing these things.

“I love Halstead, I have lived here a long time – since I was four. I’ve been photographing since I was 20 and the drone was the next step.

“The drone is very easy to use.

People think it must take up so much time, but I can send it up to film and take photos of amazing sunsets while I’m out walking my dogs around.”

Mr Keeble, of Sudbury Road, runs Anglian Furniture with his wife and has his own studio to take photos of the furniture they sell.

But until he is licensed Mr Keeble cannot use his drone commercially, despite requests from residents asking for views of their houses from above.

He said: “Until I’m licensed I can film, but I can’t charge for it, so although people ask me to go over their houses to see what it looks like I don’t take them up on it. Some people are worried about privacy, but I keep to the height where you can’t see in people’s gardens or upset them.

“The drone sounds like a swarm of bees and that’s another thing I worry about, so I don’t do the same areas all the time.”