Deep lanes and the ever changing land: my blog
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Lidwell Chapel, Summer 2018
I haven’t posted anything on here for far too long. (And I seem to write that quite often.) The rain is falling heavily outside as I write in August 2019, and it seems a good time to look back on last summer, when I made several visits to Lidwell Chapel, near Little Haldon, South Devon.…
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On the rocks from Bridford
I’ve grown very fond of the landscape around Bridford, on the eastern boundary of Dartmoor, but it’s been several years since my last visit to Heltor Rock, just west of the village. Until recently, though, I had never visited Blackingstone Rock, a mile to the south of Heltor. A couple of weeks ago I looked…
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Poppies: Wave project, Plymouth Hoe
Remembrance weekend seems an appropriate time to post these images. We visited the Poppies: Wave installation on Plymouth Hoe on 19th September. The artwork, by Paul Cummins and Tom Piper, is centred on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s Naval Memorial, and re-uses many of the ceramic poppies previously seen at the Tower of London display in…
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Castle Dyke, early Autumn 2017
I’ve been photographing Castle Dyke, near Ashcombe, Devon, for a couple of years. It is a ‘slight univallate hill fort’ believed to date to the iron age. I have now lost count of how many visits I have made, no doubt because my house lies barely a mile away from it, but also because it…
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Stay misty for me
Back in May this year I decided that I needed to hand make a second photobook. It had to be photographed, printed, written, cut, hand stitched and bound by yours truly. (We won’t talk about the first photobook because that was just me practising.) I was keen to make some of Dartmoor’s archaeological artefacts the…
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Higher Uppacott Dartmoor Longhouse
Higher Uppacott is a Grade 1 Listed Farm building situated near Poundsgate, Dartmoor. Most people driving on the road up from Ashburton to the Bel Tor car park must have admired it nestled into a tight bend just beyond the Methodist chapel. It has been undergoing conservation work of late, but guided visits have been…
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