Tresco Island 2024 Calendar

Islander and photographer Ellie Tabron says of the Tresco 2024 calendar:

'It was strange looking back through twelve months of photographs to prepare this new offering. I had taken fewer images than in previous years, but also captured some of my favourite images.

This last year has been a year of change for me and my family. My eldest started school and just days later we welcomed another little person into the world!

I spent the first eight and a bit months of 2022 pregnant. Early in the year I spent a lot of time wandering Tresco and in the spring enjoying the other islands too. As the seasons changed and the heat arrived, my camera (and I) got far less exercise. It was my first time being heavily pregnant in the summer (my older children, Jude and Etta, were spring babies) and more of a struggle than I had imagined. The weather had cooled down by the time baby Maud arrived and she was a much easier companion in a pushchair than she had been in utero as I donned my walking shoes and reconnected with my camera.

The cover image of Pentle Bay was taken when she was just weeks old and we were on our first outing, just the two of us - Jude and Etta at home with 'Daddy'. Maud was asleep in the buggy that I'd parked in the Marram grass as I stole a moment to tread the shoreline, nervously glancing back at my precious cargo between each shot. The final image was captured on the morning school run: the beauty of shadows dancing on white washed walls an unexpected gift as we negotiated new routines.

This calendar, for me at least, is the record of a year of struggles and change, but most importantly of beauty and great achievement.'

Join Ellie for a year's worth of Tresco views and memories with the 2024 Tresco calendar.

Ellie lives on Tresco with partner Sam and her two children, Jude and Etta. She has recently turned her passion for photography into a part-time profession, and says of her journey:


'In early 2020, heavily pregnant and negotiating the strangeness of a world growing more unrecognisable by the day, I put my feelers out on social media to see if anyone would be interested in buying a calendar - both a passion project and an insurance policy in an uncertain time financially. I was overwhelmed by the positive response.

By the summer I was selling calendars, notecards and postcards both online and on my home island of Tresco and as the year progressed Iwas lucky enough to work freelance with a handful of local businesses too. It’s hard to imagine, just one year on, that it all started from an Instagram Story.'