Recent Posts Tagged With Photography

• Welsh Daffodil

  Posted on Tuesday March 31st, 2009 at 04:35 pm in Photography south wales

  The daffodil is the national flower of Wales. This is a great shot of one in our garden with the sunlight streaming through it. The roadside verges, gardens and parks throughout Wales are full of daffodils at this time of year.  A great Welsh sight!...

• Strange goings on in Cardiff Bay on Google Street View

  Posted on Monday March 30th, 2009 at 03:45 pm in Photography cardiff south wales cardiff bay

  So some strange goings on in Cardiff Bay as revealed by Google Street View.  Street View has provoked some controversy and some interesting comments over privacy issues but at the end of the day it doesn’t actually show anything that isn’...

• Langland Bay Surfing - Watch out!

  Posted on Sunday January 18th, 2009 at 05:01 pm in Photography funny sport tourism south wales

  I took this picture down in Langland Bay last summer.  It’s a favourite spot for surfers in the Gower and the wind was really strong on this day so the surf was up. I got some good action shots using a long lens. This guy was quite a way out a...

• Wales GB Rally

  Posted on Tuesday December 9th, 2008 at 11:01 am in Photography sport south wales places to visit

  Last weekend we went to the Wales GB rally. It was a brilliant day for it as the two photos show.  It was cold (- 3°C) but without any clouds at all, so it was gloriously sunny. We went to stage SS18 Rheola near Glyn-Neath at Walters Arena.  This ...

• Sigginstone Plane Crash March 12th 1950

  Posted on Saturday November 22nd, 2008 at 09:52 am in Photography tourism history south wales places to visit

  The village of Sigginstone (or Sigingstone) near Cowbridge is famous for two things - the Victoria Inn pub and the Llandow Plane Crash. On Sunday March 12th 1950 an Avro Tudor V was returning from Dublin with 78 rugby supporters on board.  The previ...

• Cardiff Bay Sunset with Jupiter and Venus

  Posted on Tuesday November 18th, 2008 at 05:05 pm in science Photography south wales cardiff bay

  After several days of grey and gloom there was an amazing sunset in Cardiff Bay tonight - a gradual change from blue to black in the sky colour, but most amazing of all was that two planets were easily visible. In the photo you can see Venus to the l...

• Welsh Sign Translation

  Posted on Friday October 31st, 2008 at 12:35 pm in Photography funny south wales

  A classic from the BBC News site today. The sign pictured left was erected in Swansea. The Welsh translation translates back as “I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated.” A classic copy and paste erro...

• Cardiff Bay Sunset

  Posted on Monday October 27th, 2008 at 04:38 pm in Photography south wales places to visit cardiff bay

  The light was pretty amazing in Cardiff Bay today especially at sunset.  I wandered out in front of the Senydd and took a few shots of the sky and the setting sun. The clouds had some pretty amazing shapes and the St David’s Hotel and the surr...

• 2nd Severn Crossing

  Posted on Thursday October 23rd, 2008 at 03:23 pm in Photography south wales

  Strangely enough we found ourselves going across the Severn again this week and decided to cross on the original Severn Bridge.  The photo on the left shows the 2nd Severn Crossing in the distance.  The old bridge is being maintained again, as has ...