The rest of the country built snowmen and tobogganed, here it was cold and wet, so cold even the fishermen didn’t bother but it’s still a beautiful section of coast.

The Ness, the sandstone outcrop at the mouth of the River Teign, S. Devon. Viewed from Teignmouth Beach car park. Sometimes it doesn’t hurt to have a bit of sea spray on you lens.

Flowers attached to the railings at the cliff edge on Babbacombe Downs, S. Devon

This is Alfie, our basenji. He eats squirrels, sofas and, on occasion, bicycles. And fingers.

Taken on the same day as the shot of Teignmouth from Shaldon (below), this was quite a tough shot to get. Partly because it’s taken looking straight into the sun but mostly because of the insane amount of sea spray coming across the promenade from the onshore wind. I wanted to get really close to the edge so I could catch the best of the breakers so I was tucking my camera under my coat, dashing up to the railing, grabbing my 3 shots – shooting into the sun, bracketing, +2, -2 and on the nail – before high tailing it back behind a nearby shelter to wipe off camera and lens. Lots of salt, lots of water, expensive and very wet camera. If I’m going to do too much more of this I’m really going to have to get some camera protection.

Easterly winds in this part of the world push the seas up against the coast and we get some spectacular shore breaks. Usually the skies are overcast when this happens but occasionally we get them with fine weather and at this time of year, when the sun’s low in the sky from dawn to dusk we get all day golden hours and the light is fabulous.

This is taken from Shaldon, just below the Ness and looking torward Teignmouth Harbour. It’s where, when I wasn’t paying attention for a moment, a big breaker dumped a ton on me before I could get my camera out of the way. I’m really not looking after my kit at the moment.