Bird's-Eye

The thought of climbing up trees or risking sending a drone up amongst branches didn't fill me with confidence and so, instead, I Gaffer taped my fully extended monopod to an extendable pole, purchased from a hardware shop, and raised it up toward the canopy. Once a likely composition was located, I pre-focussed the camera, set it to manual exposure, set the self-timer delay to ten seconds and hoisted it up into the air. More often than not quite a number of shots were required to get the camera pointing at just the right angle. Raising and lowering the set-up multiple times certainly tires you out but it did enable me to obtain images from a 'bird on a branch' perspective without risking life and limb! 

Equipment note
A Nikon D610 fitted with either a Sigma 15mm fisheye or Nikon 20mm was used throughout. In order to counteract any 'wobble' from the camera being held aloft it was imperative I kept the shutter speed reasonably high without compromising quality. Therefore, for many of the images, an exposure of ISO 400 at 1/80 sec. was used.