Love is... having a lighthouse
tattooed on your right leg

Emma Telford, 25, has visited 33 lighthouses, travelling from Inverness to Cornwall in the process.

And when she found Happisburgh in Norfolk she fell in love, so decided to have a six-inch drawing of the lighthouse tattooed onto her calf.

Luckily, Emma’s 23-year-old baker boyfriend Ashley Gill doesn’t mind sharing his girlfriend, as they tour the country together – and are planning to extend their travels to New England.

Photographer Emma, of Leeds, said: “It’s become a personal thing to me, so much so that when I visited Happisburgh in Norfolk I fell in love with the lighthouse, and decided I wanted to have it tattooed on me.

“I’d been thinking about it for a while but wanted to find the perfect scene.

I’d been going to Norfolk since I was a kid but never really noticed the lighthouse before – so 
when I visited recently I was just struck by how beautiful the area looked.

“It’s a beautiful beach, a little secluded village with a traditional red and white striped lighthouse on the coast and I loved it.”

The full-colour lighthouse tattoo is six inches from Emma’s ankle, but she’s already itching to add to it.

“I want to set the scene, put in the sea, the beach, show how beautiful it is. It’s a work-in-progress,” she added.

Emma’s been back to Norfolk five times to see her favourite lighthouse, as well as visiting 32 other lighthouses, travelling as far as Moray Firth in Inverness.

She’s also visited two light ships in the British Isles.

She said: “I’ve always loved the sea and beaches, and as a photographer I’m always on the lookout for beautiful scenery.

“I first fell in love with lighthouses when I was in Cornwall about five years ago, at Trevose Head.”