Garden pleasure
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.
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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An exercise in cloning and healing, a bit of transformation of the verticals and of course a piece of judicious cropping saw this … … turn into this … … an improvement I think, and an image I’m glad to have captured before the site is closed and the brewery is moved to the outskirts
Bit of Lightroom work at Brains Brewery Read More »
On the same day we we were walking around Central Square, I took these photos of the water feature in Callaghan Square …
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There’s a lot of building going on in Cardiff at the moment. A morning’s shoot with the U3A Photography Group captured this activity in the area outside the Central Station.
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A very simple message. Thanks for dropping in to this blog during the last year; I look forward to posting more “Moments like these …” in the New Year. These are the reindeer outside Cardiff Castle (slightly out of focus I’m afraid).
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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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
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I’m not going to apologise for yet another sunrise picture from our garden. In fact, I think I took this one from my office in the loft. Anyway, the light was interesting. I took two photos with my iPhone 6s, did a HDR merge in Lightroom, and then applied a graduated filter to the sky
Morning has broken … Read More »