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2027 Beautiful North Devon Calendar
It’s here!: My 2027 Calendar is now available. This 13th edition features 13 fresh shots taken from wandering around my home in North Devon over the last year, also featuring wild Exmoor and remote Lundy Island. Thank you to my editor, the ruthless Kathleen Spears who helped with the excruciating (for me) decisions, to whittle […]
Place and Vision
September 30, 2026
Big thanks to the judges who chose “Lundy Lines” from nearly 500 entries to win the 2026 Ilfracombe Photography Festival (IPF) Photo Competition. The theme of the contest was Place and Vision. The festival runs on the weekend of 11th/12th October with a full programme of events hosted by 15 venues in the enigmatic coastal […]
Five Calendar stories plus more
December 20, 2025
Wishing everyone a happy and peaceful Christmas holiday – especially those who have purchased or received a 2026 Beautiful Estpix Calendar. As is custom, here are a few ‘behind the scenes’ stories about some of the photos in the 2026 edition. All the photos were taken between September 2024 and September 2025, which is when […]
Colour My Valley Autumn
November 4, 2025
One of my favourite places to photograph in autumn, luckily, is just on the doorstep. Exmoor rises 1000 feet out of the sea on the North Devon coast and takes the brunt of the Atlantic weather but the area is interlaced with hidden valleys where the trees are more sheltered and the leaves hang on […]
Calendar debrief
May 5, 2025
Thank you to all who bought the 2025 Calendar and for your continued support on my calendar journey with another sell out. I am a bit late with my usual blog about some of the stories behind the photos that made the 5th edition of the Beautiful North Devon Calendar. Let’s jump straight into it […]
Autumnal Phototherapy
November 16, 2024
Autumn is a golden time for landscape photographers and here in North Devon the stars of the show are the mighty beech trees, especially on the top of Exmoor. As always you have to dance with the weather and an early season gale can strip the trees of all their jewels. This year, […]
Beautiful North Devon Calendar 2025
September 9, 2024
Update: The 2025 calendar has arrived and is available for purchase now. It should be available in time for the Woolacombe art fair in October, where locals can pick up a copy at ‘local’ prices. The calendar is printed on heavyweight, glossy photo paper and A4 size opening up to A3. It features 12 fresh […]
Puffins Galore
June 11, 2024
When everything else in life is going tits up, it’s nice to be able to report a heart warming success story from our very shores across the water at Lundy Island. Back at the turn of this century when everyone else was worrying about a non-existent ‘millennium bug” and dancing to Britany Spears (no relation), […]
BTS; the story of Calendar 24
December 15, 2023
If you are new round here, welcome to the photo blog. Maybe you had the Beautiful North Devon Calendar as a Christmas present and are scrolling? Well, you are in the right place if you are calendar curious, photography curious and/or North Devon curious. The is the Behind The Scenes blog about the story of […]
Bimble from Brendon to the Sea
December 11, 2023
Friends are the oxygen of contentment in the christmas pickled onions of your brief existence on this lovely blue planet, we call home. Here’s some photos of a futile wander down the East Lyn to Hoar Oak Water and onwards down to Lynmouth. Where there is a house they called the Rising Sun, it’s been […]
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