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2019 Estpix Uphill Gardening & bespoke Exmoor furniture (& decking) Calendar.
Now for sale £9.99. The Estpix Calendar has come along way since Andy Irons appeared on the cover of the first one published back in 2000. Since then it has gone through many changes, culminating in last years epic ‘Into the light’ Calendar 2018, which despite it’s dark overtones was the most the the most […]
Riders of the storm Fifi @BUCSsurf 2018
October 14, 2018
Another year another dollar. I’ve been involved in the British Universities Surf Championships since the the early eighties, first as a judge and as event photographer, then as head judge and now as Contest Director. It’s a bloody nightmare of a comp to organise, squeezing over 350 university surfers into a contest with a small […]
OktobeR Projeck Plus 2018
October 4, 2018
Welcome to Autumn: Juicy apples, grumpy wasps, rusty leaves, rutting deer, mellow fruitfulness, misty valleys, chilly mornings and melancholy sunsets full of barred clouds blooming in the soft-dying sky. A collection of photos from Autumn 2018 #OktobeRProjeck2018 updated frequently. The last sunset over Lundy of the year. Dark skies blooming. Exmoor golden hour. Red […]
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Snowdonia Surf Pool Comp 2018
September 19, 2018
Had fun judging this event of the UK Pro Surf Tour & managed to snap some portraits, line ups and surf action during my breaks. Here they are Jobe Wave garden Mr B Action Emily Emily Emily Emily Jo, queen of the pond Mike, king of the judges pre heat isolation Alys Patrick Surf Snowdonia […]
Posted in: UK Pro Surf Tour
Chasing shadows up on the roof
August 27, 2018
It’s ‘heather’ time on Exmoor, mid to late August, and the stags are in full, soft velvet before it imminently sheds, to reveal their battle amour and the abruptly hard new-season antlers in preparation for the autumn rut. Rut, rut, rutting. It can be a fractious and emotional time as the new flood of hormones […]
Lundy Sparrow
July 25, 2018
Everyone loves Puffins and that’s because they are photogenic, quirky, have a rainbow beak and exquisite facial feathers, but their most endearing characteristic is that they seem to be dumber than dumb, in a sort of Charlie Chaplin type way (not in a stupid type way; most endearing. However they are not the only birds […]
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Lundy birds in loco motion.
July 23, 2018
The challenge: Auks in flight. The place: Lundy island. Some lovely weather, calm. still and plenty of light, helped. I used the XT-2 and 100-400mm with a 1.4x converter, plenty of ISO and plenty of shutter speed. I played with the Fuji AF settings for tracking subjects and using zone area focus I found custom […]
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