Category: Autumn

  • Autumn 2021, Dunsford Wood

    Autumn 2021, Dunsford Wood

    The pandemic lockdown and our house move in November last year (with all that entails) prevented me from visiting Dunsford Wood for a couple of years – probably the longest I’ve stayed away. But now, happily, it’s only a 20 minute drive from our house, so I’ll be walking its paths much more often. I’m…

  • Around Beacon Hill, above Pinhoe

    Around Beacon Hill, above Pinhoe

    A week ago I gave my wife a lift to Pinhoe, just outside Exeter, where she needed to attend a meeting expected to last for a couple of hours. Despite working in Exeter (in a previous life) for more than twenty years I know very little about the landscape to the east of the city…

  • Castle Dyke, early Autumn 2017

    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…