Staring down the barrel of a camera, Sophie Brown is momentarily distracted by a noisy, low-flying plane overhead.
The usually unflappable Taranaki farmer quickly tilts her camera skyward, attempting to catch a glimpse of the winged intruder.
The chatty blonde's out in an old barn introducing viewers of her video blog to the 80 bull calves she's rearing this spring.
"We buy them off dairy farmers, feed them up and soon they'll be scattered on the hills around the farm," Sophie says, pointing off camera.
Sophie and her husband Nick Brown live on a 530 hectare drystock farm in the rugged hills of Huinga, east of Stratford.
Her video blog 'Heels 2 Boots' is garnering national attention for her efforts to educate people about farm life.
Watch Sophie's video on mustering and whether to use dogs or drones in the YouTube video below:
"We've currently got ewes lambing, yearling bulls and we're rearing calves for the first time. So it keeps us pretty busy," laughs the 29-year-old.
But Sophie hasn't always lived in the country. The trained speech therapist grew up in Christchurch, where she met Nick in 2010.