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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 Using an experimental (out of date?), film sim for Kodak Ektar 100, I did a photography beach walk.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 […]

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 […]

Foam Party

November 2, 2023

Autumn storm Ciaran brought havoc and floods to many parts of the UK, here in North Devon we had a quiet night with light winds as we sat in the eye of the storm. The wind and rain came at day break along with massive onshore waves. I popped down to Barricane, the curry beach, […]

Fish supper on Woolacombe beach

July 17, 2023

What a sight as over 800 herring guls feed on sand eel in the shallows of Woolacombe beach. If you click and enlarge this foto you can see the sand eel, small silver fish, jumping in the surf Like this A single black backed gul joined the party As well as some back headed guls […]

At last of the Autumn kindling

February 19, 2023

So much went wrong with my plans to just wander around the planet and take photographs of nature to make people aware of what a wonderful planet we are privileged to live on, and make a million pounds (Rodney) on the way. But. I think I’ve finally managed to get on top of things and […]

South West Coastpath

January 12, 2023

Photographer of the year competition is due to close on 31st January 2023 at midnight. (Personally, I think that it should be called the SWCP Photograph of the year as they are not looking for a portfolio of images, just that one banging shot but hay ho). There is also a prize for the Young […]

When the wind came

February 20, 2022

Storm Eunice wreaked havoc causing damage and disruption throughout the west country. Here at the beach, there were massive (20 foot plus) waves breaking way off the end of Morte Point and froth, lots of it. The morning started wild and the wind peaked around midday First light Combesgate Bins down Froth […]

Stories behind the Photos

December 3, 2021

Calendar 2022, the Misty beach shot. I had a twitter comment from a customer about this years Calendar saying it is ….. “super. A slightly different take, (and) not too chocolate boxey.” I really appreciate it when someone likes my work (naturally) but also it is so satisfying when someone actually ‘gets it’, that is, […]

Woolacombe Village Hall

October 26, 2021

has got a new roof and to celebrate there has been a series of events recently to get the local community back in the hall. (My memories date back to when the hall was called ‘Hall 70’ (guess when it was built?) and as a visitor from Bristol on a family holiday; we saw Blithe […]

Last of the Summer Sunsets

October 19, 2021

Summer is hanging on, deep into October and we have enjoyed the mild weather along with sunset after sunset, day after day.. Here’s a few from my recent evening bimblings. Minimalist sunset experiments part 3. After hours Mill Rock Ripples In other news. It’s been a busy autumn but I’ve finally sent the Beautiful North […]