January 2025 Picture of the Month

Judging by the noise outside as I update my website on New Year's Eve, weather conditions on The Cobb at Lyme Regis probably don't look very different to this image which I took several years ago as a storm blew in. Like most people (of a certain age) who have experienced similar storms at Lyme, my mind was immediately drawn to the image of Miss Woodruff (Meryl Streep) in the film of John Fowle's novel, The French Lieutenant's Woman, as she waited in vain for the return of her lover. The picture, which was taken long before I went digital, will appear in my forthcoming book In Search of Dorset, due out in the summer. Hasselblad 500CM camera, 250mm lens, Fujichrome film.