New Client Work: Solar Energy Photos and Videos

CVE solar site in New Marlborough, Massachusetts.
CVE North America solar site in New Marlborough, Massachusetts.

Capturing Solar Installs from Start to Finish

Throughout 2023, I visited solar arrays across Massachusetts and one near Albany, New York, creating content for CVE North America. My Reel Quest Films Partner, Ryan Smith, and I made multiple trips to a new installation in Albany, capturing drone and timelapse footage from before they broke ground through the completion of the array construction. We did a similar project for them at the above array in New Marlborough, MA back in 2020 (blog post here: https://ecophotography.com/time-lapse-and-drone-video-of-a-large-scale-solar-array-installation/). Here’s the video we completed this year:

Pollinator plants and a monarch butterfly at a CVE solar site in Acushnet, Massachusetts.
Pollinator plants and a monarch butterfly at a CVE solar site in Acushnet, Massachusetts.

Photos of nine solar arrays from the ground up

My photo trips for CVE included capturing still photos of 9 installations – drone and ground-based shots of the panels themselves, as well as the native pollinator plantings growing around the panels. At each site I was trying to capture the size of the installations, primarily via drone perspectives, in addition to the beautiful pollinator gardens on the ground.

CVE solar site in Peru, Massachusetts.
CVE solar site in Peru, Massachusetts.
A solar installation in Westport, Massachusetts.
A solar installation in Westport, Massachusetts.

A lot of solar energy

It was exciting to see so many renewable energy projects up and running, and after this project I connected with another company in the renewable energy space, Syso Technologies, filming a video for them in Brooklyn, NY in October. You can read about their cool technology over on my Reel Quest Films projects page: https://reelquestfilms.com/project/syso-technologies-website-video/.

…and a parting pollinator shot:

Pollinator plants at a CVE solar site in Russell, Massachusetts.
A honey bee flies among pollinator plants at a CVE solar site in Russell, Massachusetts.

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