Almost a political post this time, but perhaps timely this week. Looking for lights whilst down The Bay before Christmas, the only really good one was the sunset that kindly performed for me. Here are two shots taken looking towards Penarth. The first from beside where the Doctor Who Experience used to be, the second […]
Sunset for the Union? Read More »
A fun start to the new year, with a few shots from the old one. We were on a mission … to find the Christmas lights in Cardiff Bay. The only problem, there weren’t any! So I looked around for a) something Christmassy, and b) something unusual. The first photo hits both categories as it
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Finally to finish off what (for me) was a rather satisfying shoot at the National Folk Museum in St Fagans, near Cardiff, a set of four images of “old friends” – some of the buildings that have been in the museum the longest. Apart from some cropping, none of these photographs has been altered in
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Some texture in nature this time. A shot of some grasses which caught my eye … [EXIF: 1/50sec @ f/8; ISO 400; Sony ILCE-7R;Sony FE 55mm F1.8 ZA] … and then the contrast between hard, straight trees and the leafy ground (with rather nice shadows too) … [EXIF: 1/100sec @ f/9; ISO 400; Sony ILCE-7R;
I couldn’t let the sunsets of this week wait until the sequence of scheduled shots that are due to appear on this blog over the next few weeks have finished, so please excuse this exceptional blog post of images with exceptional colours. The first image was taken on Tuesday evening after Jenny phoned me and
Spectacular sunsets Read More »
What a lovely day! The garden is beginning to looked cared-for again, so a break for a cup of tea and a couple of snaps. The Australian corner, and below a couple of roses. Both are at their best this year.
Sometimes we don’t give ourselves the time to look up, rather than down, or straight ahead when walking a city’s streets. Cardiff has a large number of interesting buildings – all dating from those times when coal was being exported in huge volume from the docks. Here are a selection of images taken at the
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The U3A Photography Group had arranged a photo workshop for us at Forest Farm – a conservation centre run by the Cardiff City Council Ranger Service. The day didn’t look to be starting off well as we arrived with rain and drizzle, and the usual Cardiff grey sky overhead. But after a session in the
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The “lighthouse” in Roath Park – the memorial to Scott of the Antarctic – is a much photographed subject, but I enjoy taking pictures of it whatever the light! Slight bit of lightroom “magic” employed to get the vertical lines right. I didn’t quite get the depth of field right on this one,
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Fourteen Locks, Newport A couple of weeks ago the U3A Photography Group visited the Fourteen Locks Canal Centre just off the M4 near Newport. Not a great day for photography, but we had a challenge – to use a fixed focal length for all our shots and not to do any post-processing. That was for
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