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Bird/land rides again
Bird/land is showing again this summer, at Plas Brondanw, between Penrhyndeudraeth and Beddgelert in the heart of the Snowdonia National Park. Set in a stunning location, Plas Brondanw was the home of the late Clough Williams Ellis – creator of Portmeirion, … Continue reading
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Tagged landscape, exhibition, photography, bird, birds, plas brondanw, oriel brondanw, beddgelert, penrhyndeudraeth
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A silver-studded Saturday
I didn’t mention it in my last post but the van broke down on the way back from Pembrokeshire. It had been feeling and sounding particularly rough the whole journey and a few miles south of Aberystwyth it started to … Continue reading
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Tagged blue, butterfly, great, insect, llandudno, orme, photography, silver, studded, wales
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As seen on Springwatch…..
Last week we hurtled down to Pembrokeshire in the heat. Jane had an event to attend in Haverforwest and I wanted to do some bird photography in the Marloes area. We had an evening boat trip lined up too, which … Continue reading
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Tagged bird, birds, haven, island, martins, Pembrokeshire, photography, pilot whale, skomer, skull, swallow, swallows
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Birding at Heron H.Q.
Only twenty years ago one could reasonably expect to see a grey heron or two at a wetland in southern England and possibly the one of the first little egrets to arrive on these shores. How things have changed! Little … Continue reading
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Tagged avalon marshes, bird, bittern, greater, ham wall, heron, herons, landscape, little, photography, somerset levels
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Flying the flag for Britain.
I’ve just returned from a holiday in the south of France. My holidays usually involve a fair amount of photography, but on this occasion it just didn’t seem to happen, despite my having a fair amount of kit with me. On … Continue reading
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Swings and roundabouts
Over a period of many years the National Library of Wales bought complete sets of prints from each of my books as it was published, or as they were exhibited. They currently have a total of 371 Cibachromes purchased in … Continue reading
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Tagged copyright, environmental, gomer, landscape, library, national, photography, press, restructuring, wales
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Tripod head talk….and our cutest mammal (surely!)
For many years I used a Magicball tripod head which I thought was a brilliant and very versatile piece of kit. I had two, in fact, with a Mini-Magicball on my lightweight “walking” tripod. The secret of the design was … Continue reading
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Tagged acratech, Anglesey, head, mon, photography, red, squirrel, tripod, Uniqball, wales, wildlife, ynys
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Fay Godwin revisited
Saturday the 18th saw the opening of a new exhibition at MOMA Machynlleth of the late Fay Godwin’s black-and-white landscape photographs. It includes a selection of original prints from the National Library of Wales’s collection linked to “The Drover’s Roads of Wales”. … Continue reading
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Tagged Bookshop, documentary, Fay Godwin, Gallery, landscape, machynlleth, MOMA, Penrallt, photography
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The Green Flash and another starling story.
Several more visits to Aberystwyth seafront at sunset have elapsed since my last post. You can’t believe how frustrating it is to witness another damp squib, then go home, turn on the TV to watch Countryfile and see video of … Continue reading
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Tagged aberystwyth, atmospheric, bird, effects, Flash, green, photography, starlings
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Some thoughts on winter.
In a previous post I talked about a little about winter. To elaborate a little I feel that the urge to travel, achieve and generally ‘get out there’ takes a back seat during the winter months. Undertaking activities of a … Continue reading
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