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 […]
Blue Remembered Hills Read More »
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
Ludlow Christmas Festival Read More »
The textures and colours you get from the Millennium Centre when the sun is shining are just amazing. These four images (two of them receiving a bit of clarity and vibrance treatment in Lightroom) demonstrate this well. I particularly like the one above – certainly an argument for post-processing. This image would just not have seemed so
Roath Basin (The Bay) – Autumn 2016 Read More »
Another set of images from our glorious autumn in Cardiff. By far the best we can remember in over 30 years living in the city. Last Sunday – the first in November – I saw the sky, grabbed my camera and set off down the road to Roath Park. A brisk walk round the lake
Autumn 2016 – Roath Park Read More »
It seems a while since my last post. Here are a few images taken during a “field trip” with Cardiff U3A to Cefn Onn Park a couple of weeks ago. The autumn in Cardiff has been quite splendid and actually, we were probably a little early to catch all the splendours of autumn colours. The
Autumn 2016 – Cefn Onn Read More »
This is one of my very favourite places. As an early teenager living in Cornwall and interested in geology, I would often take off on my bike and wander around the spoil heaps and the cliffs around Botallack Mine looking for pieces of cassiterite, galena, pyrites and copper pyrites. I would spend the whole day
Taking a picture into the sun is a bit risky, but when you have such a lovely cloudscape to hide the sun you always have a chance of a good image because it then puts your subject in dark contrast. Wonderful place. Great walk along this part of the Northumberland coast.
Dunstanburgh Castle under clouds Read More »
I’ve been scanning quite a few of my older pre-digital images recently. The image quality doesn’t compare of course – much is lost in the scanning of the negatives. This cropped image suffered quite a lot in the process, but with some judicious post-processing in Lightroom I was able to produce a completely different effect –
And now they’re both mothers Read More »
Every time I go down to the Norwegian Church in Cardiff Bay, I try and think of a different way to take a shot of the iconic Pierhead Building. This time it’s two swans doing synchronised swimming in the foreground. The ferris wheel is there for the summer, over the holiday period Roald Dahl Plaza
Down the Bay … again Read More »
We just happened to be in the right place at the right time when this amazing piece of road transport came down Broad Lane en route to its destination in Wyther Lane in Kirkstall. A transformer for the Kirkstall sub-station. It took the best part of the day to travel from Goole Dock to Leeds.
Low loaders and loads of wheels Read More »