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Five Calendar stories plus more

December 20, 2025

Wishing everyone a happy and peaceful Christmas holiday – especially those who have purchased or received a 2026 Beautiful Estpix Calendar. As is custom, here are a few ‘behind the scenes’ stories about some of the photos in the 2026 edition. All the photos were taken between September 2024 and September 2025, which is when […]

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 […]

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 […]

Purple and Lime colours on top

May 24, 2025

Maytime is when Exmoor comes to life, the beech trees and hedges start to show their fabulously fresh, almost florescent lime-green foliage. This year the wow factor has been amplified by the prolonged dry spell (don’t look up), and some fabulous blue skies. The light winds helped the blossom to set and for the next […]

September shines on the sunroof

September 23, 2024

How prophetic the photo of a misty beach sunset was of September in last years ‘Beautiful North Devon Calendar’, it’s been a lovely little Indian summer and gratefully embraced after what has been, generally, a miserable summer. Time to get the camping gear out of the back of the shed, And journey up onto the […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]