Winter Sunrise Over the Axe Valley
A car winds its way towards Cheddar in Somerset. Above it the sky is slowly turning red as dawn brings in some beautiful colours. As the sky turns amber a large flock of crows...
Category: Sunrise
Winter Sunrise Over Wells
There’s something magical about an early winter morning. Today, I made my way up the Deerleap hill over looking the tiny city of Wells in Somerset. The sky was already changing. At first, it...
Deerleap Dawn
Deerleap This is the name of the narrow lane that runs up the southern face of the Mendip Hills from Wookey Hole. This steep hill overlooks the valley of the River Axe and the...
Red & Blue Priddy Green
The village green at Priddy is wide and open. The early morning sky was dark red, and the frost covered grass had turned a soft blue in the semi-darkness. It was a bitterly cold...
South Horrington Chapel
Before sunrise I was standing in a very cold field above the chapel of the former Mendip Hospital just outside the tiny Somerset city of Wells. The hospital generates it own mist. The steeple...
Pen Hill
Pen Hill is the Mendip Hills red light district. The mast is nearly 300m tall and sits on the top of a 300m hill in Somerset. It is surrounded by rough grazing and dry-stone...
Uphill Beacon
Next to the village of Uphill in North Somerset there is a hill you can go up. Surprisingly, it seems the village is not named after the hill. Anyway, the hill is a beautiful...
Walton Heath
Walton Heath (named after the local village) is part of RSPB Ham Wall. Its not your typical heath of gorse and heather, but reeds and open water. Sunrise We have not seen much sun...
Red Dawn at Lynchcombe
Its Christmas morning and it’s cloudy. These pictures were taken a couple of days ago. I hope you like them, Jeff. Happy Christmas Early in the morning a beautiful deep red sky above the...
Solstice at Howling Gate
Howling Gate is my name for gateway on Cook’s Field. This is a Somerset Wildlife Trust nature reserve high up in the Mendip Hills. To appreciate its name you need to stand next to...
