Newport

Transporter Bridge (B&W)

Worldwide Photowalk Day – Newport 2019

Along with three members of the Cardiff U3A Photographic Group, I took part in a pleasant walk along the banks of the River Usk from near The Riverfront Centre to Newport’s historic Transporter Bridge. The latter part of the walk, I’d never done before, and it was good to approach the bridge from the north, […]

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A swinging second or two - 1

Swinging crocuses – an experiment in impressionism

In the post Whoosh I declared that I’d made some plans of what I wanted to take on my visit to Newport. Well another shot I wanted to try and re-create was the impressionistic accident I once captured at Soar-y-Mynydd in mid-Wales, which I called Serendipity, when I stumbled with my finger apparently on the shutter-release.

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The vertigo shot

Fourteen Locks on a wet, cloudy day

Fourteen Locks, Newport  A couple of weeks ago the U3A Photography Group visited the Fourteen Locks Canal Centre just off the M4 near Newport. Not a great day for photography, but we had a challenge – to use a fixed focal length for all our shots and not to do any post-processing. That was for

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