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Not a brilliant sunset but the clouds as I hoped turned pink enough to compliment the thrift.
It was pretty windy and the thrift isn't sharp as I would like but I did my best!
North Devon.... On a bad day :)
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OCTOBER 2013
Hartland Quay is one of 2 of my images commended in the 2013 Landscape Photograher of the Year competition. Both images will appear in the LPOTY 2013 book and in the Exhibition which opens at the National Theatre, London, from 7th December until 8th February 2014.
JULY 2013
Shortlisted for the final of the UK Landscape Photographer of the Year 2013
Croyde in North Devon. I took a whole bunch of images when I was after this shot which I have posted before but not this particular one. I was kneeling on a dry bit of sand with my tripod in the flow of water. I just focused on the bit of driftwood which was bobbing about in the flow but luckily enough kept reasonably still for the duration of my exposure. We are off now to take the dog for a haircut which will take around an hour and a half, so I have time to kill, I`m going to walk around to a local cemetery to see if there are any images to be had .
One back to our trip to North Devon and a very windy day so embrace the movement and hold still. No filters.
Marbled white at dusk roosting on a meadow thistle. North Devon Culm grassland. Photo Kevin Keatley, Nikon D7200, 18-200@95mm, F11, 1/125 sec., ISO 400.
so yet again from my archives...the north devon/cornwall coastline is wonderful, worth a visit on a windy wild day..
While driving along we stopped to inspected the Kathleen and May. It was sitting in the mud in the River Torridge. We cannot be everywhere at high tide. It is a three masted top sail schooner.
As you know, clouds are surprisingly heavy. There are a lot of variables to consider, but, a bit of googling reveals that for a grey cloud layer like the one seen here at Westward Ho!, ‘surprisingly heavy’ might mean something along the lines of 8 to 10 million tonnes of water and around 30 to 50 billion tonnes of air.
Just floating above your head.
That’s it really, that’s all you need to know.
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Usual caveats etc.
Somehow, I managed to arrive at Westward Ho! at exactly the right time. The tide was going out (I had planned that part) and thankfully most of the dog-walkers were still making their way towards the beach.
Imagine that, the gloriously soggy sands of Westward Ho! devoid of frantic paw prints, ball divots and start-stop welly-boot tracks. Not that I actually have anything against dog-walkers on beaches - it's a joy to see the excitement and the wagging tails - it's just extra-nice to find pristine sands when the weather is perfect for photography.
Epic clouds. Unending wet sands. Intermittent sunshine. Strong, but managable winds. Just what the Doctor ordered.
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Is it World Hyphen Day? I seem to have been on a mission to hyphenate, necessarily and un-necessarily - whatever took my fancy really.
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Usual caveats etc.
This Heron was flitting from one rock to another down the East Lyn River at Lynmouth on the North Devon Coast.
Looking in the opposite direction to my previous post, this is what you see when you stand in the middle of the beach and face south south west (ish).
The land in the distance is the Hartland North Devon heritage coast and, on a clear day, with 20/20 vision, you might be able to see Clovelly.
With less than 20/20 vision you may not be able to discern Clovelly, and you might even begin to suspect that the area is populated with ichthyosaurs, or giant brachiopods…
…err, what?
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Usual caveats etc.
This noisy seagull sat next to us at the Tunnels Beaches in Ilfracombe. What a fantastic place that is!! We arrived at misty conditions with the haar making the temperatures not that pleasant. However, the sun eventually burned off the fog and we enjoyed a great afternoon at the beach! I really love that photo, it's one of those rare lucky moments I had my camera close by and the seagull was positioned perfectly in front of the darker rock.