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Five Calendar stories plus more
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 […]
Fleeting flight of the Auks
July 9, 2025
Photographing Puffins in flight can be frustrating; the birds are small and fast, making framing difficult. They flap their wings that are more suited to ‘swimming’ underwater – faster than flying, at up to 400 times a minute – not as fast as a Hummingbird granted, but still requiring a fast shutter speed to freeze […]
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), […]
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December 20, 2025
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