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It's Porthcawl but not as we know it, thanks to a new aerial video shot by a keen photographer using a drone.

Mark Shobbrook captured stunning, sweeping images of the town using his new DJI Phantom 2 unmanned aircraft, which shoots high-definition video.

The end result, entitled Porthcawl From The Air, and featuring music written and performed by Mark, 48, from Cornelly, near Porthcawl, has proved to be an internet smash, clocking up almost 21,000 views on Facebook.

Filmed last month, the video begins with a fly over of the town’s new marina, before taking viewers along the so-called concrete beach next to the Esplanade and then over the Grand Pavilion.

Viewers are also given a unique perspective of the pier before the camera swings around to take in Sandy Bay.

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Mark, a former wedding photographer, said: “The chance to have a camera in the sky was an opportunity I couldn’t miss.

“Droning, as I like to call it, is quite a recent technology and has become very popular in the USA because they are unbelievably safe, so much fun and easy to fly, the most addictive piece of tech I have ever owned.

“The only way to achieve these types of shots in the past was to hire a helicopter at a very high cost.”

Mark has also filmed other Welsh beauty spots, including Tenby.

“I feel very fortunate to live in Wales as there are so many beautiful places locally, which I am looking forward to filming and sharing on Facebook/Youtube etc.

“The latest video of Porthcawl from the air has had amazing popularity on Facebook and, as I am a keen song writer and instrumentalist, has given me a great new avenue to get my music heard too, also editing the videos in time with my music is also great fun.”