2018

Garden visits in The Marches

Now I’m not a “visiting gardens man” normally, but this spring I had the opportunity of visiting three excellent gardens near Leominster and Presteigne in The Marches. Here are some of the images I took which I’m particularly happy with. This is near the cafe (a tithe barn) at Stockton Bury, an apple orchard. An

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Looking up in the City Centre

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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Atlantic Wharf, Cardiff

An exercise in Black & White, on a very grey day with the U3A Photography Group, and of course reflections too (I used my polarising filter quite a bit) … But not all images benefited from the B&W treatment. For instance this one (with a little bit of colour enhancement) would not have looked as

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Rough seas at Reynifsjara Beach

Iceland – Days 7 & 8

The final day of the Workshop started on Reynifsjara Beach, where some of the party were able to walk to the basalt column cave, whilst I (and my bad back) had to content myself with taking photos of the stormy beach and the sea-stacks and arch at Dyrhólaey and the farm houses nearby. We then

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