Photos: stunning drone shots of Great Massingham poppy field

Hobby photographer John Millward, 42, came across the poppy field in Great Massingham on Facebook.

The poppy is the flower of Norfolk (Image: Jonathan Millward)

The photos were taken at sunrise (Image: Jonathan Millward) After messaging to find out where the field was, he set off to take his own photos.

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The Wimbotsham local, who enjoys sunrise photography, has been taking photos for the last 10 years.

The field is located near Great Massingham (Image: Jonathan Millward) Poppies flower from June to August (Image: Jonathan Millward) The field has been rewilded by the landowner, with the soil being ploughed and harrowed before being left for nature to run its course with the result being a huge sea of red poppies.

Norfolk's county flower, a muse to both Van Gogh and Monet and a national symbol of rememberance, the poppy blooms from June to August, making it the perfect time to go and see the natural spectacle. 

Both Monet and Van Gogh have famous paintings of poppy fields (Image: Jonathan Millward) Clement Scott coined the phrase Poppyland (Image: Jonathan Millward) Writer Clement Scott first coined the phrase Poppyland for the coastline between Cromer and Overstrand. “Neath the blue of the sky in the green of the corn,” he wrote in the 1880s. “It is here that the regal red poppies are born!”

The description could just as easily apply to parts of the west Norfolk coast, such as Great Massingham and Heacham.

The red of the poppy bloom against the green alfalfa of the field represents what Van Gogh called a “motif in red and green" - complementary colour pairs which sit opposite the other on the colour wheel and cause each other to pop.