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2026 Calendar Now Available

September 30, 2025

It’s here: the 2026 Beautiful North Devon Calendar! The 12th edition features 13 fresh shots taken in the prevoius year in and around Exmoor, Lundy and the beaches of North Devon. Thank you to Kathleen Spears who helped with the agonising decisions to whittle down 30-odd candidates to the final selection, and to the friends […]

Hot Hanmers

July 8, 2025

Lundy time: Joon 2025. We were gutted to hear that our week’s stay in Tibbetts was cancelled due to problems with the new waterpump installation (Tibbetts has its own Well and the quaint but outdated battery waterpump was being upgraded). Instead we were offered Hanmers, a corrugated iron and timber hut built in 1898 by […]

Biggest day of the year so far

May 7, 2025

As the summer flat spell has kicked in very early this year, and several important surf contests have been postponed til the autumn, I am posting these snapshots of the biggest day of the year so far here in North Devon. Least we forget that this winter has pumped; from Xmas day til that high […]

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 […]

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 […]

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), […]

Looking for bluebells, found Dippers

April 27, 2024

After the rain we were presented with a calm and sunny weekend here in North Devon. Time to get out on the moor for the first time in ages in search of bluebells. The woods along Hoar Oak Water were filled with the smell of wild garlic. The trees were showing off their fresh leaves, […]

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 […]

After the rain

January 6, 2024

As the planet warms up, there will be more moisture in the air and therefore more rain. This winter has been exceptionally wet so far here in North Devon. It can be fair to say that it has rained every day for the past 10 weeks… However, when the rain stops then a muddy plod […]

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 […]