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. [...]

Some Spring sunshine around Plymouth

Smeaton's Tower on the Hoe

Landmarks on Plymouth Sound in some spring sun [...]

Waves on Blackpool Sands

We went down to Blackpool Sands on a mostly sunny day and I got quite a few shots there and, a little later, at Slapton.  The above is looking out over Start Bay – the combination of the light on the water and the cloud was great.

Light on water

Having caught up with the backlog of the holiday snaps I started working on the relatively small number I’ve taken since I’ve been back and wondering about my next post.  These are not all taken on the same day but I realised that on a number of days I’d taken photos [...]

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 [...]

Sennen Cove to Lands End

We headed for Sennen Cove early on one of the mornings in Cornwall and walked from there to Lands End.  Sennen is a beautiful area and the beach is great – usually crowded with surfers if there is a good swell it was almost deserted when we got there.  [...]

Heading down the coast

I’m just back from a break in Cornwall.  We stayed in the far west close to Penzance.  Heading down there it was a good day weather wise so we stopped off on route to make the most of the sunshine.

First stop was the small cove of Chapel Porth.  It is [...]

Aspects of Plymouth

It was a while since I had headed in the direction of Plymouth however I had to go there anyway so the camera was with me.  I visited various spots on the eastern side of the Sound including Bovisand and Jennycliff.

I got this shot of a frigate heading out to [...]

Kingsbridge and Torcross

The weather forecast was for sun… Never trust weather forecasts in the Westcountry! Heading for Kingsbridge last week and planning to head down towards Hope Cove for some coastal images it became obvious that the day was not going to be as forecast. Looking at the head of the estuary at [...]