A photographer has spent almost a quarter of a century capturing photos of beach huts on Portland.

Douglas Fry, 56, has taken thousands of photographs of the huts, some of which date as far back as 1995 and were shot on film before he purchased a digital camera.

The professional photographer lives in Oxford but visits his home town of Weymouth as often as he can and almost always makes the journey over to Portland to snap a few more shots to add to his collection.

Mr Fry said: "Beach huts are different on Portland compared to, say, Weymouth. The nature of the huts themselves have to be more robust to withstand rain and wind and because of that they have a lot more character because they've been weathered so, photographically, they are much more enchanting.

"The huts are clustered on the end of a promontory and they are all different sizes and shapes and colours. I really like that look, I think it is really cool, and then you have that bleak view across Portland which is amazing.

"It is because of their separation. A lot of beach huts are cheek by jowl and are like terraced housing. They don't have the same isolated vibe, as if they are saying "don't come and talk to me" which my wife would say I relate to quite well.

"I like to go back to the same hut and see how it is getting on, it's like I have a personal relationship with it. I like how weathered they each are, like me."

In Mr Fry's professional work, he has experienced challenges in trying to find new ways of photographing the same thing over and over, for example, factories. He has used the techniques he has developed at work to push himself and his creativity when capturing the beach huts.

He said: "You have to try and think of new way of photographing the same thing. You can use different lighting, different compositions and different processes and shoot it in a completely different way so that challenge was applying processes from my corporate life to the beach huts.

"Last time I went to Portland, in 2019, I went with a wide angled lens to see if that would change the way I looked at things and framed them in my head. It's good to test yourself creatively as much as you can."

Earlier this year, one of Mr Fry's photographs was featured in a BBC collection of 'blended' images.

He said: "The BBC have a theme of pictures that they publish every week and they obviously get thousands of entries and they picked one of mine so that's quite cool. It's also nice to see that other people like beach huts too.

"It is a lovely project and it keeps me being creative. Weymouth is great for photos but it's not got the huts. You've got to go a little bit further to get to Portland. That is where the magic happens.

"As long as I can get a wheelchair of a Zimmer frame around Portland I will keep taking photos."