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Lords of the Boards 2025

August 21, 2025

Boardmasters Surf 2025 was one of my most favouriteists yet and it’s not just for personal reasons, such as working with an outstanding team (as always), but what helped was; the wall to wall sunshine, consistent north Cornwall summer surf that produced – everyday, and an old school vibe back into the ‘surf fans village’ […]

Boardmasters Surf pix24

August 11, 2024

Many moons ago I was a professional sports photographer and at this years Boardmasters surf contest I had the opportunity to shoot some of the finals in perfect 2-3 foot surf with offshore winds and clear blue skies. Long gone is the old heavyweight 600mm f4 and ID mk2 and tripod with snow shoes & […]

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 […]

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 […]

I remember, Septembers in love

September 15, 2021

It’s been a long old shit wave/ flat spell wait but finally, hurricane Larry delivered the goods; a classic and much fabled September swell. What’s not to love; light winds, sunshine, easy surf and every man and his dog straining at the bit, wound up by Medina and Carissa’s ‘World ChampionsHip” display the day before.. […]

Boardmasters in black and white

August 16, 2021

I set myself a projeckt for the 2021 Boardmasters surf festival, the target was a dozen portraits in black and white. The tool I chose was the Fujifilm XT-3 coupled with the Mitakon 33mm f0.95, a Chinese lens that is only manual focus. The results are below, no captions – just photos – jpegs straight […]

Calendar now available at Beachcomber Cafe.

December 15, 2018

The 2019 North Devon Calendar is now available at the Beachcomber Cafe in Woolacombe. It contains 13 ‘stunning’ photos that will make you go “Wow!” (probably). Priced at a reasonable £9.99, why not pop in and pick one up after a surf or a walk along the beach. You may also want to have a […]

The last autumn swell

December 2, 2018

A weekend of pumping surf in North Devon was a nice way to say goodbye to the autumn of 2018. So stoked to get this one (below) published in Carve Magazine as a double page spread, the point at Main beach firing. (Issue 192 btw). XT-3 w/ 16-55mm & 100-400mm Just got back from […]

2019 Estpix (Uphill Gardening, bespoke Exmoor furniture & decking) Calendar.

November 7, 2018

New calendar now available, by post or pick up. Tenner. Or two pints of Lowenbrau if you are local…… Cheers! Now for sale £9.99. The Estpix Calendar has come along way since Andy Irons appeared on the cover of the first one published back in 2000. Since then it has gone through many changes, culminating […]

Oktober Projeckt: Surf

October 1, 2016

One photo every day in Oktober; scroll down for latest image. Click to engorge. I haven’t taken many photos lately. Much to my shame: Work and other commitments have got in the way of ‘my essential contentment of futile wanderings’ with the camera. So, to try to re-ignite the flame ( & justify the purchase […]