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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 […]

Ocktober Lundy 2024

October 12, 2024

Dance dance dance to the Ocktorbro radio .. Last minute bolt to the rock for some birthday fresh air. End of season vibes The black shed and a corrugated iron building, ( A man walks into a swedish chemist …etc New pony welcome And lens lick. Still autumnal skies and autumnal puddles. Plenty of birds […]

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 […]

The high lands

April 8, 2024

Road trip. Go with the flow, follow the road and see where it takes you. Click on your favourite image, as ever, this blog is best viewed on a big screen. Crabber in a loch Red Deer everywhere Castle of the McKays The shepherd off Sandwood Bay, near Cape Wrath. Chocolate box Scotland This enigmatic, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

Oh what fun we had ….

October 16, 2023

On Lundy Island for my third trip of the year to Tibbetts, this time with a rag tag bunch of family and dear friends to celebrate my birthday, my retirement and my bus pass! I didn’t take too many photos because I was laughing so much, however these few will trigger memories of the most […]

Beautiful North Devon Calendar 2024

September 27, 2023

It’s here the latest edition (and best so far) of the Beautiful North Devon calendar. Twelve stunning and crispy fresh new images taken over the last year in North Devon, Exmoor and Lundy. Putsborough Exe head Lundy Woolacombe Exmoor South Light Saunton East Lyn River A4 fold out to A3 The early-bird price to my […]

Here we go again

March 20, 2023

Back to the island for my 25th stay since my first one (at Old Light Upper) back in 2012, nineteen of those stays have been at Tibbetts, the solid granite lookout built in 1909 and a retreat loved by a small group of fugitives and absconders from the modern digital world, known amongst themselves as […]