As flood-hit communities continue to battle against widespread flooding across the South West, photographer Lewis Whyld visited Somerset to record the extent of the damage.
Lewis, intended on using his self-built drone camera to capture aerial views of the floods, but found himself having to use the device for a much more urgent purpose, after he came across a submerged vehicle.
"It was my day off, so I travelled to Somerset to film the floods with my drone, as I thought it would be an interesting way to document the damage.
"I saw the car but couldn't get to it, so I used my drone camera to check there were no people trapped inside. Fortunately it was empty."
Lewis also spoke to residents in the town of Stoke St Gregory, in Somerset.
Farmer Heather Venn called the floods "catastrophic" adding that many people had been left with "no facilities at all in their homes".
"Over 90 per cent of our land is under water at the moment, we're not sure what will have happened to it when the water goes," Ms Venn said.
"This year's floods are catastrophic in terms of the damage to properties and people's lives, lots of properties have gone under, it's pretty dire for people who have got water coming in."
The Environment Agency has warned those living in parts of south-west England and the Midlands to take care as it issued nine severe flood warnings – meaning there is a danger to life – for the Cornwall and North Devon coasts and the River Severn, south of Gloucester.
Lesser warnings remain in place for many parts of Britain, including the already blighted Somerset levels and west Wales, where 49 flood warnings and 15 alerts have so far been issued.
The photographer who captured these aerial images was taking time off to prepare for an official CAA drone examination.
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