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Undress me now, you know how

February 13, 2013

A bitterly, cold grey day on a flat, featureless beach. This one is Brean in Somerset on the edge of the brown, silt-filled Severn estuary. Stardate; Monday 11th February 2013. The challenge, to take a photo. The antagonists; a flat and brown beach, low grey cloud and a cold companion. However, the one good thing […]

Britsh Junior Squad Training – January Session, Croyde

January 19, 2013

The first meeting of the 2013 British Junior Surf Squad (supported by Calypso soft drinks) was held at the famous quality beachbreak at Croyde this weekend in very wintery and freezing conditions. Young surfers (under 18’s) from all over the SouthWest of England and Wales travelled through the snow and slush to train with British […]

I was wrong

January 18, 2013

I admit it, there I said it. Yesterday, I said that there might be some snow today but it would soon melt and turn to rain as a warm front came in from the west and raised temperatures. But I was wrong. It was true for Cornwall about a hundred miles away but here in […]

Buy Local

November 9, 2012

Pix on canvas for sale … Croyde Canvas 30 inches x 12 inches Black and White signed and numbered. Woolacombe Canvas 30 inches x fifteen inches Colour signed and numbered. Exmoor 24 inches x 20 inches Black and White signed and numbered. I’m doing three quality deep canvas prints for your local present idea this […]

Septembers in love

October 5, 2012

After an awful summer there was a palpable feeling of relief here in North Devon when the school holidays were over and things became less hectic, on the roads, in the pub and in the water. The water is still warm and there is an almost romantic attachment to September, in that everyone looks […]

A Post about a Post

July 18, 2012

I don’t know why but photographing this place has become a bit of an obsession of mine. Maybe it is because I had so much fun here in the eighties, when there were a lot less surfers around and getting it with just one or two mates out was not unusual, especially during the week. […]

We watched the wheeling harbingers of an apocalyptic fate for mankind.

June 30, 2012

One line poem and photos by Ester Spears. Click on an image to see it a bit bigger. Canon 5D c/w EF 50mm f1.4USM 1/2000 th @ f8 (it’s been a crap summer so far)

Wasting away

May 25, 2012

Wasting away I wrote a poem about my unrequited love And they told me I was clever. I tried to sell my picture to the journal And they told me they would never Pay me, oh no. Here I sit Wasting away. Drinking champagne and happy in my furrow. Oh no, Wasting away and waiting […]

Winning and being the Best

May 14, 2012

It’s been a long time since the British Surfing Champion came from North Devon, since 1984 in fact when Richard Carter (Redwood surf shop, Croyde) held the crown. Last November Woolacombe resident, Stuart Campbell, brought the title back to Devon from a stormy Fistral Beach in Cornwall. To celebrate Stuey’s 21st birthday (today), his title […]

New spring and lenses

April 16, 2012

First outing with the new (to me) Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 L IS USM on a spring walk in an area of outstanding natural beauty AONB. Click on the pix to make them so much bigger. First impressions: Superb build quality, as you’d expect from a £1k plus lens, metal everything. I’m always a bit […]