Welcome to my site
I have created this site to showcase some of my photographs, and inside you will find some galleries of recent images. I intend to add some technical details about the equipment and methods used to take them real soon now!. There will also some details of the tools and techniques used to create this web site, and anything else that I've thought to be interesting or useful. If you like the site and the contents, or have any comments at all, please contact me using the Contact page, and let me know how I can improve it.
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What's New?
16th November 2012
Something a bit different - a new gallery of photographs of The Adventures of Don Quixote by Bicycle - an outdoor production by the Burn The Curtain Theatre group that they performed at Fremington Quay in August 2012.
3rd July 2012
I have added a gallery of photographs taken during the Plant Heritage visit to Lower Ash Farm, June 2012.
15th June 2012
I have added a gallery of photographs taken at the Plant Heritage marqee at the Coombe Trenchard Garden Festival, June 2012.
5th June 2012
I have added a gallery of photographs of the bark of several Birch tress, taken at Stone Lane Gardens in May 2012. Stone Lane Gardens holds National Collections of Birch and Alder trees.
19th April 2012
I have added a gallery of photographs of Erythronium hybrids, taken at The Garden House, Buckland Monachorum in April 2012. The Garden House holds a National Collection of Erythronium hybrids.
3rd April 2012
I have added a gallery of photographs of Mints, taken at Penborn Goats Farm in March 2012. Penborn Goats Farm holds a National Collection of Mentha.
26th March 2012
I have added a gallery of photographs of the flowers and catkins of Alders, taken at Stone Lane Gardens in March 2012. Stone Lane Gardens holds National Collections of Birch and Alder trees.
23rd January 2012
I have added a gallery of photographs taken at Stone Lane Gardens, on the north edge of Dartmoor, which holds National Collections of Birch and Alder trees.
9th January 2012
Rosemoor RHS garden put on another Winter Sculpture Exhibition this year, similar to last year. I have uploaded a new gallery of photos of some of the pieces, and changed the picture on this page to one taken that day.
1st December 2011
I've added a gallery of pictures taken at the Plant Heritage Devon Group's Annual General Meeting, held in November 2011.
19th October 2011
I've added a new gallery of cloudscapes over Instow, that I photographed in late October 2011.
26th October 2011
I've added a new small gallery of pictures of gardens that the Plant Heritage group plan to visit in 2012. Thesee photos were taken when Maggie and I visited the gardens to meet the owners and confirm that the gardens would be interesting to visit.
11th October 2011 (II)
I've added a small gallery of Astilbes and other late summer colour at Marwood, taken in late July and August 2011.
8th October 2011 (II)
I've added a gallery of photos of the wedding of my brother-in-law Ray, to his beautiful bride Olivia, on October 2nd, 2011.
8th October 2011 (I)
I've added a small gallery of photos of Sage the Eagle Owl, taken in August 2011.
13th September 2011
I've added a small gallery of photos taken at the Plant Heritage Plant Fair, held at Rosemoor on September 4th.
10th September 2011
Two new galleries of pictures of gardens that the Plant Heritage group plan to visit in 2012. Thesee photos were taken when Maggie and I visited the gardens to meet the owners and confirm that the gardens would be interesting to visit.
2nd September 2011
A gallery of the Plant Heritage group's visit to Berrynarbor has been added to the Plant Heritage section.
24th August 2011
A gallery of the Plant Heritage group's Summer Lunch at Fardell Manor has been added to the Plant Heritage section.
16th August 2011
A gallery of the Plant Heritage group's visit to St. Brannocks garden, Braunton has been added to the Plant Heritage section.
2nd August 2011
A gallery of the Plant Heritage group's visit to Langtrees garden, Croyde has been added to the Plant Heritage section.
22nd July 2011
I've added a small gallery of pictures of the Tarr Steps and River Barle valley, taken with my new wideangle zoom lens.
17th July 2011
Another gallery of the group's visit to Sherwood Garden has been added to the Plant Heritage section.
12th July 2011
Two more galleries, of the group's visits to Fast Rabbit Farm and to The Old Glebe, Eggesford, have been added to the Plant Heritage section.
6th July 2011
This year, Maggie has become involved with the North Devon Plant Heritage group (formerly the National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Garden, the NCCPG). The group visits gardens that are not normally open to the public, and I get to go along with my camera.
I have therefore created a new group of galleries to show the photos from these events, which can be accessed from the Galleries page in the usual way. The first two that I have put up are of a visit to the Tregothnan Estate in Cornwall, and of the Plant Heritage stand at the Coombe Trenchard Garden Festival 2011, together with some pictures of the Coombe Trenchard estate. More will follow!
21stJune 2011
I have uploaded a new gallery of photo taken at Greencombe, a gorgeous garden near Porlock in north Somerset.
10th May 2011
I have uploaded a new gallery of the spectacular display of magnolias at Marwood earlier this year. 2011 was the best year for magnolias in the garden that I have seen, and if pink is your thing, do have a look!
I have also bought a new camera and lenses. Preliminary details are on the equipment page.
27th February 2011
Rosemoor RHS garden put on another Winter Sculpture Exhibition this year, similar to last year. I have uploaded a new gallery of photos of some of the pieces.
I have also slightly changed the CSS for the image display. I hope this will prevent browsers from trying to upscale the images for high resolution displays - these low res .jpg images to not upscale well. It works well in Google's Chrome browser, and OK in IE8, and should not affect anything in earlier versions. If anyone has problems, especially in other browsers, let me know and I'll try to do something about it.
10th December 2010
I've added half a dozen new photos of some amusing window box displays that I noticed while walking around Appledore.
27th November 2010
I've added a new gallery of pictures of interesting plants taken over the whole of 2010 at Marwood Hill gardens.
24th November 2010
I've added a few pictures of our Allotment, taken in October 2010, together with a brief report on our progress so far.
Sadly, I have decided to remove the Guestbook from this site. For more than a year now, the only entries have been from the spammers, and I have got bored with editing out their rubbish every week. You can still contact me using the Contact page if you wish.
19th September 2010
Now that summer is nearly over, and the evenings are drawing in, I have been reviewing the photographs I have taken over the last few months, and have added a new gallery of pictures taken at Hestercome Garden in July.
25th May 2010
I've added a gallery of pictures of interesting plants taken over the whole of 2009 at Marwood Hill gardens.
4th March 2010
It has been several weeks since I've added any new content to the site - but here is a gallery of pictures that I took at a Winter Sculpture Exhibition at RHS Rosemoor in January. I hope that I will find time to add some more photos soon, including an update on the progress of our allotment!
16th December 2009
I've added another small gallery of pictures from Marwood Hill gardens taken in March 2009, featuring some of the garden's splendid collection of magnolias.
24th October 2009
Another new gallery, this time of pictures that I took when we visited Cothay Manor in Somerset, last July.
22nd September 2009
I've added a new gallery of pictures of the development of our Allotment, which has taken up most of our time this summer.
19th September 2009
Another gallery, containing some photos from our disappointing boat trip to Lundy Island.
24th August 2009
I've now added an Equipment section to the site, and re-organised the main navigation bar. I intend to add descriptions and details of the equipment that I use for my photography in this section, but there is nothing there yet!
Maggie and I have taken on an a new allotment, which has been taking up much of our spare time, and so there have been no updates to the site for a few weeks. The initial hard work on the allotment is coming to an end at last, though, so look out for some new content soon.
4th June 2009
As promised, I've added a gallery of spring flowers shots from our garden, taken in February this year.
27th May 2009
The site is now much faster and more responsive. Nothing to do with my code or design, this has come about because I contacted the Technical Support group of FVS, the company that hosts this site, to ask if they intended to update their server software. I was surprised and pleased by their response, which was to move the site to a new, much faster server, which is running the up-to-date versions of Apache and MySQL. Excellent service - well done!
This server upgrade has improved, but not entirely eliminated, the IE8 problems mentioned below. I'd really appreciate some feedback on this - is it a real problem for IE8 users, or am I over-reacting?
16th May 2009
Microsoft has now released Internet Explorer 8, which automatically updated my installation of IE7. Unfortunately, the Javascript that provides the image fades used on the gallery display pages doesn't seem to work properly - under IE8, the fades are not smooth, and seem to be too slow. I'm working on this (and would appreciate any suggestions!) but if it offends you, all I can suggest is that you use Chrome, Firefox or Safari - they are all free, and the gallery pages work as intended. Links to these browsers home pages are on the About page.
4th May 2009
Spring has now arrived in Devon, and to prove it here is gallery of photographs of bluebells taken yesterday in Chenson Woods.
24th April 2009
I have finally got the About page to behave as I wanted it to, and have added a little content. More is on the way, so come back soon. No more pictures yet, but I have a lot of spring flower images that I will be adding soon.
1st April 2009
Earlier this year, North Devon had some of the heaviest snowfalls seen for many years. Here is a gallery of pictures of the area around our home in the snow.
11th March 2009
I've added a gallery of photographs taken on a walk along the SWCP from Bideford to Northam Burrows, alongside the Torridge estuary.
I have also made some improvements to the site, particularly on the Gallery Index page, which now uses a 'tree' style menu to link to the galleries.
2nd March 2009
Another gallery of photographs of Marwood Hill garden, taken in late February and featuring the spectacular Snowdrop display.
23rd February 2009
I have updated the email form on the Contact page - do try it out and let me know if it works properly!
There was also a problem with the Guestbook that prevented new signings from being added. I'm happy to say that this has been cleared up as well.
12th February 2009
A few more photos, mainly of Instow.
10th February 2009
I've improved(?) the Javascript code that runs the galleries so that the images fade in and out, rather than just changing abruptly from one to the next. I think it looks better, but do use the Guestbook to let me know what you think.
30th January 2009
I've added a gallery of pictures of Marsland Mouth, taken on the same trip as the Bude and Sandy Mouth pictures.
27th January 2009
I've added a gallery of pictures from Bude and the beach up to Sandy Mouth, taken in October 2008.
13th January 2009
I've added a gallery of pictures from Tapely Park gardens, taken in October 2007.
9th January 2009
I've added a few pictures of the Appledore and Westward Ho!
8th January 2009
I've added some pictures of the South West Coast Path from Morte Point to Lee Bay.
6th January 2009
The Guestbook is now up and running - please feel free to leave any comments or feedback that you wish!
13th December 2008
A few more pictures that I took at Marwood in early June, and some of bees and butterflies at Holbrook Garden.
30th October 2008
Some pictures I took during a walk from Westward Ho! to Peppercombe.
22nd September 2008
A few more photos of sand patterns on Instow beach.
6th September 2008
I've added a gallery of photographs that I took at my niece Rachael's wedding in July 2008.
2nd September 2008
I've added a gallery of photographs of Marwood Hill Gardens, taken in May 2008.
27th August 2008
I've added a small gallery of some local landscapes taken around Instow, Yelland, and the Taw Estuary, in the autumn of 2007.
22nd August 2008
All the visble pages have now been updated to the latest styles, and I have undertaken a major re-write of the gallery display pages, which now use some simple Javascript to control the image display and provide simple slide show functionality. All the pictures of Marc and Amy's wedding are now here, but I have removed the old Scrambling up Tryfan gallery.
30th July 2008
I think I understand a bit more about CSS now, and I've re-written the main style sheet for the site. The updated sheet is only applied to the home and contact pages so far, though.
2nd July 2008
This site is now on a new server, following our move from Cambridge to Devon.
7th December 2006
I've added a gallery of pictures of Marc and Amy's wedding.
2nd May 2005
I've added a gallery of photo's from our recent scrambling expedition in Snowdonia.
Steve Morton
December 2006