Around Start Point

Start Point lighthouse working in fog

Photographs taken around Start point in October 2011 in varying weather and light. The lighthouse can be seen working in the fog on one shot. [...]

By the hand of man

Stonehenge

Photographs of a number of old structures made by man including Stonehenge, the oldest in this set, and the Caen Hill locks on the Kennet and Avon canal which are the most recent. Also included are images of Corfe Castle and the Cerne Abbas figure. All are located in the counties of Dorset or Wiltshire. [...]

1 day – 3 quite different photos

Stepping stones acros the river Dart

Three differing photographs taken in Devon on one day recently from both the coast and Dartmoor [...]

Pyrénées-Orientales – heading east

From Beaucens we headed east to Prades in the Pyrénées-Orientales and Catalan area of France.  Intentionally we took a very minor road in the end which was very narrow, with very big bends in.  We met a “traffic jam”!

From the window of our apartment we could could see one of [...]

En vacance and en route, Brittany and Charente-Maritime

The reason there have been no posts here for a while can be guessed at by looking at the title of this post.  I’ve been touring in France for a while and I am now back and starting to sort through the photos I took.  Given that we covered just under [...]

Fishing for photos…

For a variety of reasons I’ve not been out much recently and certainly not as much as I would have liked. The evening looked promising so I headed for Brixham hoping for some good sunlight. As is so often the case it didn’t quite work out like that but I still found some scenes [...]

On the edge of the water

It has been raining quite a bit over the past few days and the ground on the moors would be very wet so, given a forecast of reasonable weather, I headed towards the coast.  The Little Egret seen above is not an uncommon species in the West Country these days but [...]

A walk on the beach

The plan last week was to go to the city to do some shopping…  The forecast looked quite good – fortunately my partner is tolerant (and likes the coast too) so we headed off for a walk in some rare late Autumn sunshine.

The contrasts in light and colour [...]