When it’s hot n’bothered and crowded with kooks, and, even your little ‘secret’ beach has been named in a Sunday supplement as a top one hundred secret beaches to escape the crowds too but, is full of Sunday supplement reading visitors in peach shorts and Waitrose attitudes. Then it’s time to escape to the roof of North Devon and wander without snarl-ups, stand-up paddle ups and on to Exmoor with some solitude and space to breathe. Funny thing is that the moor seems to be more busy outside of the six-week school-holidays than at other times of year, nothing sinister here, it’s just that families want to go to the beach.
The attraction of Exmoor in August for a photographer, is not the ticks, horse flies or snakes but the wonderfullly purple heather. ‘Elephants snatch’, in Farrow and Ball, and at the opposite end of the colour wheel to the resplendant greens of the fern and bracken. Judge me not on these experiements of colour contasts, I’m still learning.
Near Nutscale.
Pondlife.
Pond heather.
Mossy stump.
Exmoor Cooooo
Exmoor heather (Wales in the back ground).
Jet Boy Jet Girl
Deer, heather, exmoor, mother, son, problems.
“There he is looking for a calendar shot of typical Exmoor deer in the heather’.
Hope she brought her fly spray….
Beauty and the ‘ken annoying beast of the fly.
(Love that film).
FUJI
Click on the pic you love.
Thank you.
esterspears 
suzhobbs
August 8, 2022
Great writing Ester. Wonderful photography as always 🙏
estpix
August 9, 2022
Thanks Suzanne x
David Oddy
September 7, 2022
Some great Exmoor shots, the deer look relaxed so you must be learning your craft of deer stalking. Mark H, refers to my attempts of getting in binocular range of them as Dave has been deer bothering again on Exxmoor! DaveO.