Category: Devon
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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A Very Local Spring – Part 3
It’s a grey but warm summer’s day early in July, as I write this, and I’m just back from a local walk from home up into the Haldon Hills by way of another green lane. It’s new to me (how much I’m enjoying discovering all these old routes!): steep, narrow, dark, sunken and contains some…
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