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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
One back to our trip to North Devon and a very windy day so embrace the movement and hold still. No filters.
so yet again from my archives...the north devon/cornwall coastline is wonderful, worth a visit on a windy wild day..
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.
Rhapsody looking funky and greeting folks with her foal, out of shot.
Think I was very lucky to catch her with the hair flying around !!
For those folks from Windsor Photographic Society will know who owns this horse or have a good idea.
We dropped in to her new farm out in the sticks of Devon with views of Dartmoor in the distance, on our way down to Woolacombe which made a very welcome break.
It was a glorious day and a chance to wander around some of the ancient woodlands down to a river on the boundary.
Perfect escape to the country but will need wellies and full waterproof coats for the wet periods from the westerly winds that blow through.
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.