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Wandering around looking for clouds and puddles
Thurso 2024
I’ve been coming up to this part of Scotland since the eighties, firstly a trip with Rudi & Teen in a Type 2 VW, where we surfed Brimms and East, on our own and were immediately captivated by firstly the quality of the surf and secondly by the remote and unpublished secret of this corner […]
Spring on the Rock
March 17, 2024
Back to Lundy island for a spring visit on the helicopter, it’s been a wet winter and conditions on the Rock reflected those on Exmoor; wet, wet, bog and more wet. There are however, signs that spring is in the air with mild temperatures, daffodils, blackthorn blossom and puffins! This years accommodation was in the […]
Posted in: Lundy, The Essential Contentment of Futile Wanderings
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 […]
Birds in the mud
February 21, 2024
Vellator quay mud to be precise, and the river Caen as it meanders across the great field and into the Taw estuary. There’s a multitude of birds that use this habitat, some are included here showing well, from a few mid winter wanderings.. Vellator boats Little Grebe A mallard and a […]
Posted in: Birds
Damp and green and mizzley
February 4, 2024
Another Sunday and another tramp across the moor and down into the, not so hidden, valleys. Damp under foot, mizzle in the air, rivers in full flood and the mossy tree trunks in magnificent saturated green. Hoar Oak Water Fall The fishing lodge Oak spagetti Big boys wondering why we’re not watching the Sunday afternoon […]
Posted in: Exmoor, The Essential Contentment of Futile Wanderings
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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