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Midwinter Kodak Woolacombe

November 20, 2025

It was a cold but clear day with mid day sun seasonally low in the sky. Using an experimental (out of date?), film sim for Kodak Ektar 100, I did a photography beach walk. Here are the photos, no wasted hours in front of the computer processing them, just warts and all gritty photos. I […]

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 […]

Lords of the Boards 2025

August 21, 2025

Boardmasters Surf 2025 was one of my most favouriteists yet and it’s not just for personal reasons, such as working with an outstanding team (as always), but what helped was; the wall to wall sunshine, consistent north Cornwall summer surf that produced – everyday, and an old school vibe back into the ‘surf fans village’ […]

Fleeting flight of the Auks

July 9, 2025

Photographing Puffins in flight can be frustrating; the birds are small and fast, making framing difficult. They flap their wings that are more suited to ‘swimming’ underwater – faster than flying, at up to 400 times a minute – not as fast as a Hummingbird granted, but still requiring a fast shutter speed to freeze […]

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, […]

Summer smooths time at home

August 2, 2024

Times they are a changing; the planet is becoming uninhabitable and no one seems to care enough to do anything about it, social media is fueling a rise of hatred between communities and the awful self inflicted wound that is brexit is still the elephant in the room. The song remains the same. Out with […]

Black Rock Project

February 28, 2024

I’ve been photographing this rock at my local beach for the past month or so and am still not completely happy with the results. So I thought I’d share my best photos so far, and explain my vision for this spot. The conditions needed are part of the jigsaw to get the image, firstly there […]

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 […]

Wet, wet, wet.

November 12, 2023

This autumn has been wet. Wet. Wet. But not cold. It’s sodden underfoot too. Boots and the swish of goretex pound the muddy lanes. Head down in the rain, but Between the showers, brief moments of light, Break through to lift the heart. \ \ Thanks for looking, don’t forget to like and subscribe (what […]