I’ve been visiting the far south west of Cornwall for over 25 years. Its wild landscapes, untamed coast and remarkably dark skies make it one of my favourite places on earth, somewhere I can properly disconnect and always feel pulled back to. It’s also where I shot my very first Milky Way core against an inky black ocean sky, which makes it a place with a personal claim on me that few others have.

In early October 2024, my wife and I went back to celebrate twenty years of marriage. Cornwall gave us its usual autumn welcome: dramatic seas, squally showers rolling through, and the kind of light that only shows up in the gaps between storms. Out of the whole trip, we had one night when the forecasts finally agreed on clear skies, so I headed out to tour some of the coastline’s spots that mean the most to me, Cape Cornwall, Priest’s Cove, Porthgwarra and the view over Land’s End from Mayon Cliffs above Sennen Cove. I was rewarded with dark, clear skies for almost the entire night, and the chance to shoot images at places I’ve come to know so well over so many years, on the very trip marking twenty years with the person I’ve shared most of them with.

I named the film Kernow ow Dhre, old Cornish for something close to “Cornwall, my home”, because that’s exactly what this stretch of coast has become.