Deep lanes and the ever changing land: my blog

  • A threat of thunder, Hameldown Tor, late summer 2024

    A threat of thunder, Hameldown Tor, late summer 2024

    No-one is visiting Hameldown tonight, just me. Thunder is in the forecast, risk of disruption, heavy rain, that kind of thing we’re warned so often about these days. And the sky is heavy, ‘though not yet dark – a possible threat, but perhaps in the distance. I’ll carry on up. It’s 1st September, and I…

  • Venford brook and waterfall

    Venford brook and waterfall

    It’s spring, but it’s not really spring, feeling and looking like late winter, still. I have 3 hours, and point the car toward Ashburton, not knowing where I will end up. On the steep road uphill from Ashburton to Poundsgate, I find myself turning off for Holne. At Holne I find myself continuing toward Venford…

  • Finding Chapel La Wallen, Dartmoor

    Finding Chapel La Wallen, Dartmoor

    In May 2023 I published my photozine Lidwell Chapel – Images from Two Seasons. It took a long time to put this together and I’m rather proud of it. (You can still buy it from Etsy here.) Soon after launching this into an inexplicably underwhelmed market I found myself re-reading it and reminding myself that…

  • St Juliot’s, Cornwall

    St Juliot’s, Cornwall

    A short holiday, August 2022 A few months ago my mind drifted back to the summer of last year, when on a whim I’d booked us a short break to St Juliot’s, in the hills above Boscastle, Cornwall. This year I’ve become a little addicted to making my own photozines, and although I’ve published one…

  • Lidwell Chapel in winter

    Lidwell Chapel in winter

    My first Lidwell Chapel blog post was from the summer of 2018, and you can still view it here. I remember writing that I hoped to return and photograph it in a different season, ideally with lots of mist. That post is one of the most visited on my website, so I’ve delayed this subsequent…

  • Pictures for an Exhibition

    Pictures for an Exhibition

    I was delighted, back in mid-June this year, to hear that some photographs I had submitted had been accepted for the Dartmoor Collective’s first ever exhibition at Poltimore House, near Exeter. A total of 19 artists and photographers were selected to show their work (over 120 images in total), and the exhibition was open to…