SIX-SPOT BURNET MOTH – Zygaena filipendulae on a flowering blackberry bush.

1000′s of them at Instow beach.

The land is off the Tarka Trail heading toward Barnstaple. These shacks are owned but deserted and I often return to take pictures as they fall into disrepair. I mean fuck, gimmie a model and we can shoot form French Vogue.

She’s sniffing here. Doberman’s have a highly tuned sense of smell and that sniffer is going all the time. She’s doing so well now. She cowered constantly when we first got her due to the violent abuse at the puppy farm we rescued her from. She’d be whipped across the snout daily. That’s what the scars are from, the specks of white in the next photo down on her snout. Now she only gets kisses, walks and treats. And look at her coat now. That’s her diet showing. Before, her hair was patchy and lank.

Calf – taken at great personal risk, I might add! Look at the horn on that Cow! Pardon? That’s not what I mean you dirty-minded perv! I mean the one coming out of it’s fakkin’ head!

Note* The detail in the fur. I never knew Cows had fur…awwwwwwwwwww!

Available as a postcard, print, canvas or billboard!

I went back to finish what I started yesterday. The kitchen ones were taken in pitch black because there’s no electric here and the windows are boarded up.

Took a ride to Instow where there’s a small inland lake and lots of wild life along the Tarka Trail. The Tarka Trail is a series of footpaths and cycle paths around north Devon, England that follow the route taken by Tarka the Otter in the book of that name. It is a figure-of-eight route, based on Barnstaple, and covers some 180 miles of path.

The route covers a wide variety of landscapes, including: wooded river valleys, rugged moorland, coastal cliffs and sandy bays. Walking varies between easy and strenuous, depending on the location, but, in general, it is comprehensively waymarked.

The trails are now a popular tourist destination and bicycle hire businesses are available for those who wish to cycle along suitable sections of the trail. A section of the Trail is part of National Cycle Network route number 27 and forms part of the Devon Coast to Coast Cycle Route, a 102-mile route from Ilfracombe, in the north, to Plymouth, in the south, largely using former railway lines.

Yelland is the next village along from Instow.

My first trip to Instow this year. I like the surreal quality of these.