6 – A small space – a lot possible
How would you spend all day in a space about six feet across from back rest to back rest, and approximately ten foot long with no headroom to stand upright?
Wandering
Marine photography
2 – My approach to photography
When I was a dentist, I took photographs all the time – mostly macro settings of small objects and areas. These were essential records of what I was seeing.
In my private life, my photographs have also been records – records of places, people and details. My family will tell you somewhat wearily, “He takes photographs of boats mostly!”
Three images from yesterday – Knightshayes
We were invited to visit Knightshayes accompanied by the former head gardener who had been involved in designing and planting the gardens for over forty years from the early sixties. He was talking about the trees he had planted from seed, about the garden and woods from before the garden and woods were there, about the way they had collected trees and plants, about why they had put them here . . . or there.
Marine photography
1 – Post it again differently
My last post was a try-it-an-see effort – could I upload an image from my camera onto my mobile then post it on the blog – from my boat? Evidently I can. With a little practice, I can improve on it too.
Along the Teign – in black and white – and colour
We walked from Drewsteignton to Chagford on a rare hot, sunny day. I was being introduced to the walk – “It’s a great walk. Not too difficult.” It is and it wasn’t.
A coincidence I could not ignore
I was intrigued to see, downstream from Blue Mistress, two masts of a large schooner towering over the normal view. Continue reading
A bird in a hurry
A chance photo . . .
“Figures that clothe facts are in fashion . . .”
In the Preface of the book I have just started to read*:
A morning at the races
We spent yesterday morning at the City of Exeter Regatta, a triumph of organisation and lycra.
A cycle ride in North Devon – but no ‘forest of masts’?
On Friday, we cycled, mostly into the wind and intermittent light rain, from Barnstaple to Okehampton – 40 miles through the rolling hills of North Devon.
Beyond Steeple Point 