Back in November I had the pleasure of meeting up with Lloyd Austin who I had been on photoshoots with on previous occasions, plus we have a go at putting the world to rights.

I then eagerly awaited the arrival of Dom Houghton, raconteur, explorer and long standing photographer. Someone who I had not had the pleasure of meeting previously.

As you can imagine I was somewhat nervous at the prospect.
However my fears were soon allayed as Dom came into view.

He looked like a cross between ‘Biggins’ and the ‘Mad Hatter’ who had been through a car wash and the drying cycle was out of action.
It was a challenging afternoon weather wise to put it mildly.

Following hilarious introductions, we decided to brave the heavy rain and wonder down to this magnificent beach which in my opinion has a certain aura about it.

The weather conditions were not good, so Lloyd and I spent most of the afternoon sheltering behind a large rock. We were as happy as Larry discussing local beers and the like.

Credit to Dom he threw caution to the wind, or was it rain, maybe a bit of both and started photographing everything he could train his lens on at this location.

Around the time the sun should have set, the rain eased slightly, so Lloyd and I made a dash for it.
Think I took 8 shots in total this being one of them.

As the light faded the 3 of us trudged back to our vehicles.
The inbuilt windscreen wipers on our wet suits working overtime.

A great afternoon spent in the company of 2 wonderful people.
Certain people on Flickr were brought up in conversation during the afternoon, if your ears were burning, tough.

Looking forward to our next adventure Lloyd and Dom

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend, though it sounds a case of batten down the hatches again.
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As the weather has been somewhat challenging to put it mildly, it has been a case of digging around in the wine cellar to see what images I might have stashed away.

I did stumble across this one (before you jump to conclusions, the stumble was not caused by said wine 😂).

The conditions in this photo remind us that on occasions we do have some decent weather, why it is taking so long to behave is beyond me.

Think it is case of we are all looking forward to some warmer and more settled weather.
I don’t know where this year is going.

I will leave you with this, we had a fellow round to do a bit of work for us, he was aware that we had been observing him in a quizzical manner. Aware of this he very politely said to us, “It may look like I’m doing nothing, but in my head I’m quite busy”.

Yea right Mate, our pond notes will be a bit busy in the bank for a while longer as well.

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The River Plym, one of my favourite stretches of river on Dartmoor.
This lower section runs through Dewerstone Wood.
Just love the character in these gnarly old trees on the river bank opposite, like something out of a fairytale woodland.

One of the many things I have been blessed with while out with the camera are the characters that I bump into.
These are just a couple of examples.
Who will ever forget Pink Welly Man (I said Welly, what are you lot like) or the geezer that had his mobile phone number tattooed up his forearm, I was only recently shaking my head looking at his photo.

Today was no exception.

On arrival at this location I had the privilege of chatting to a group of gentlemen who were on a training exercise in the river.

These men were of a ’need to know basis’ background and were honing some of their shall we say, survival skills.

During our exchanges of banter I experienced some of the most entertaining and hilarious urine taking I have been party to.

Now what was I meant to be photographing 😂😂😂.

Thank you so much for looking at my photos, the banter and comments are so appreciated, take care and enjoy the weekend.
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This is a little beach just north of Bude which I had not visited for a while.
Catch the tide right and it reveals some nice rock structures and interesting flows of the sea.
Wellies are a must, as is a bit of a daring nature, or is it stupidity.
The jury is out.

Well that has seen January off, I cannot believe where the year is going. I see there are a few snowdrops around and also in the local churchyard there a few Crocuses, it seems a bit early for these colourful flowers.

I will leave you with this thought,

When you're crying, nobody notices your tears.
When you're worried, nobody feels your pain.
When you're happy, nobody sees your smile.
But when you break wind just once…………….

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This is a shot I have pondered over for some time, as due to the direction Trebormint Strand faces, it naturally lends itself to sunset shots (if the weather behaves).

So why on earth would anyone rock up here for sunrise.
Well me being me, I thought why not give it a crack, I know what you are thinking “they are not all locked up yet”.

Anyway, I set off early one morning with my who dares wins mode of mindset at 110% in the hope of photographing something that might be of interest.

Though the sun was rising behind me, I was pleasantly surprised to see these colours being picked up in the sky above Gill’s Lion (AKA Gull Rock) and added a subtle tone to the unfolding morning.

I must mention this before I go.

We were in the village church for one of the Christmas services, and there sat a couple of rows in front of us were a charming elderly couple just chatting away to each other about the festive season, it was such a heartwarming sight.

As the service was about to start, the dear old lady leaned over towards her husband and whispered “I have very, very, very quietly broken wind, what do you think I should do”, her hubby said “put a new battery in your hearing aid!”

On that note I hope everyone out there in Flickerland has a good weekend.
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