Tales from the blind the lens of Lyme’s award-winning photographer, Richard Austin. To view more comment and opinion pieces, visit our Blogs section.
WITH the Wimbledon tennis tournament in full swing, these two little porkers are all game, set and match at their home at Pennywell Farm in South Devon. […]
SILENT but deadly – that would be the situation for any kind of rodent hiding in the daffodils. […]
IN 2013 I was privileged to be asked by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) to photograph a huge event – the releasing back onto the Somerset Levels a dozen or so common cranes, the first to return to the levels in 400 years. […]
BACK to the 1980s and springtime at Cricket St Thomas, in Somerset; I was commissioned to come up with an unusual spring picture. […]
THE Kingfisher is by far the royalty of British birds – beautiful colours, including iridescent blue feathers, and a unique way of catching food on our waterways. […]
OF all the celebrities I’ve met and photographed, they didn’t come any funnier than Cornwall’s very own comedian Jethro. […]
IT was smiles all around when Her Majesty The Queen visited The Wyvern Barracks in Exeter. […]
IN over 20 years of photographing the animals at Paignton Zoo, one of my favourites was Kivu, the Western Lowland Gorilla who hated the frosty weather but braved the cold to forage in the frost for his favourite food, corn on the cob. […]
ON a deserted beach or in the country’s capital city (above), poppies will forever be the symbol of remembrance. […]
THE first thing famous magician Paul Daniels said to his Marine Theatre audience was “You’ll like this… not a lot, but you’ll like it”. […]
SOME of the LymeOnline readers would have experienced the tiny micro pigs at Pennywell Farm in South Devon – it’s where they originated under more than one name, such as micro pigs and pocket pigs. […]
IF you can recall the Steve McQueen film ‘The Thomas Crown Affair’ from the 1960s, you may remember the film’s theme tune ‘Windmills of Your Mind’ sung by Noel Harrison. […]
WITH the sound of chirping birds above me I was delighted to witness a family of swallows waiting for the parent bird to pop a captured fly in their mouths. […]
SOPHIE Countess of Wessex was the VIP guest at The Association of Show and Agricultural Organisations (ASAO) at a posh hotel in Torquay. […]
IN 1997 Great Britain’s famous Olympic woman’s long jump champion returned to her home city of Wells, in Somerset, where I was to meet up with her for a small photo shoot. […]
THE Falklands War 25th anniversary commemorations in central London, with former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher standing out among the military personnel and royalty in her bright pink ensemble. […]
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