One for Mr & Mrs Groom
… of course it’s a hairdresser’s car, but …
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… of course it’s a hairdresser’s car, but …
One for Mr & Mrs Groom Read More »
November in Cardiff is usually a great month for sunrises and sunsets. The first hint of the air turning colder, and the lower angle of the sun on the horizon seems to make the colours jump out at you. This sunset didn’t turn out as spectacular as I thought it might – after
Sunset from Caerphilly Mountain Read More »
Continuing our walk around Cardiff in the mud! Alec had said I ought to record the muddy paths we trod, so I did, here’s the evidence.
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A visit to Westonbirt Arboretum – missed the best of the autumn colours this year, but I did like the shapes of the trunks of this Acer.
Photographers like solitary trees, they can be quite reflective of mood, light, location and occasion. This one was caught just north of St Fagans – an oak tree in a large field otherwise grazed by sheep.
Yet another solitary tree Read More »
The Natural History Museum is an impressive building in any light, but emerging from visiting the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Exhibition, which had opened there the day before, you just couldn’t help but be amazed at the contrast between the sunlit building and the dark clouds behind.
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Another image taken whilst on a walk. This time the first stage of The Beacons Way – from The Skirrid (Holy Mountain), near Abergavenny, to Llanthony Priory. A lovely early autumn day which had everything, sunshine, a bit of rain and blasting winds from the first shocks of the worn out Hurricane Gonzalo, which was
Skirrid from road up to Hatterrall Hill Read More »
Returning from a visit to Hereford, we stopped in Monmouth. I hadn’t realised that Jenny had never seen the town. Quite apart from the historic gatehouse over the river, the town is now famous for its self-styled Monmouthpedia virtual existence, with QR-codes all round the town. Of much greater interest than that are its two
Charles Stewart Rolls Read More »
Just outside Dinas Powis in the Vale of Glamorgan, near to Michaelstone-le-Pit, are the disused fisheries known as Salmon Leaps. There’s a lovely circular walk from Dinas Powis that takes these in, as well as extension off it that goes to Caerau and the unexpected vantage point that allows you to look over the city
The River Usk, alomng with the Wye and Severn, experiences a very high tidal range. This results in extensive tidal mud flats which, as in this case, can take on extraordinary patterns – created as the water drains off the flooded river banks, onto the flats and into the river as the tide goes out.