A set of images over the next few days from the first photography fieldtrip of the year of Cardiff U3A Photography Group. The theme (as it happened, on a very blustery and damp day) was “Red in the Bay” inspired by the Weeping Window installed at the Senedd Building, so it’s appropriate I start with […]
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Fifty years ago this month, I left home and set off for Aberystwyth. There I met Jenny and made many friends who I’ve kept in touch with at Christmas time, but we’ve never planned a get together until this year. The pictures of the participants are private. However I couldn’t let the “moment” pass without
This blog has been serious for far too long! Here are a couple of shots from the rooftop of our house after I inspected the work the builders had done in rebuilding our chimney stack which was in a very dangerous condition.
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Church of St Mary and St Nicholas, WiltonIf you were to place a bet on where this church is, you wouldn’t have said Wilton, near to Salisbury in Wiltshire. It’s quite an amazing Grade I listed building in a Romanesque style with its Byzantine features, and seemingly so out of place in Wiltshire rather than
Old Wardour CastleSo, having had a lovely breakfast in The Crown Inn B&B, we set off for Compton Chamberlayne to look at a church that I thought had early family connections – it didn’t I found out two days later after visiting the Hampshire County Archive in Winchester – when we discovered we’d left a
Out of sequence, but just too good to miss, and also a good way of using up some time whilst waiting at Changi Airport for our flight from Singapore to Heathrow. There are some more images on Google Photos here. Terminal 3 has the Butterfly Garden – which has been a bit disappointing this year
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The weather has been so dreary and wet the past few days that when the sun came out this morning, and picked out the orchids in our garden room, I thought … “I must try and capture them before they go over!” These orchids have been really wonderful this winter, flowering since November and bringing
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We were parked in the car park when this striking image emerged in the strong low-angle winter sunshine. How many days of the year you get this image, I’ve no idea. It was not an easy one to capture which makes me think that it was not planned. Perhaps I’m wrong. Anyway … Look over
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At about this time of the year a very pleasurable family get together is enacted – usually in Europe, but this time in Ludlow, Shropshire – the Bradford siblings and their partners let their hair down for a few days and generally have a good time. Ludlow has one of the best Christmas Markets in
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One of the worst kept secrets is that I do enjoy my malt whisky. I’ve also managed to visit a few distilleries. Many have wonderful locations, often looking out over wonderful scenery, this one – Edradour, near Pitlochry – surely wins the prize for being the prettiest. Wins my prize anyway from those I’ve seen!
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