‘Tracks’ is not only the name of the theme I use on my web site (find it here), but also the subject of my latest post. A late December walk at Dawlish Warren Nature Reserve turned up this rather wonderfully-decorated pine log incised with intricate wood borings. Fascinating…
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Every year, I post an image a day for the Advent period for my friends and followers on Facebook. This year, I am basing my theme on the Waterline exhibition I held with a friend at the Gallery in Symondsbury earlier this year. Welcome to the official start…
As beachcombing visitors to Lyme Regis will already know, the east beach there is a fertile source of industrial and domestic debris. I’m a confirmed rustaholic and collector of unconsidered trifles, so it’s one of my favourite coastal destinations! From Victorian times until the 1970s, land east of…
I’m currently hosting an exhibition at The Gallery, Symondsbury Estate near Bridport – here is a taster of some of the images you’ll see if you visit. Visitors have been intrigued by the abstract and painterly nature of the photos, and have enjoyed reading their own interpretation into…
As well as being the title of an evocative novel by US author Anita Shreve, sea glass is a favourite amongst the beachcombing fraternity. Don’t think broken bottles lobbed onto the beach by drunks, but instead, imagine small frosted nuggets in many colours, transformed by the tumbling action…
I’m always surprised at how suddenly Autumn (Fall) arrives. This early morning, there was an indefinable coolness in the air – I don’t think the temperature was any lower but the quality of the warmth was different. The lawn and weeds were bedecked with guttation dew, and when…
I’ve just returned from a short break in south-east Cornwall, and it turned into an opportunity for a small photographic project on rock abstracts, as well as the chance to beachcomb to my heart’s content. (I was especially pleased to find an unbroken necklace shell, though it will…
We are promised a heat wave and thunderstorms, but today started absolutely perfectly. I woke early and was out walking by 6:30 in the cool morning mist. It was one of those times when I realise just how many millions of spiders I share the world with –…
Sometimes, you have to be ready to grab a shot. This morning, during a rather quiet overcast walk in Lyme, the sun momentarily broke though a gap in the clouds and sparkled on the sea. This is only a phone snap, but I was quite pleased with its…