It was a wonderful surprise to discover a tiny fishing community still in existence in Holywell, North Wales. I imagined these two boats to be taking a long, peaceful retirement from duty after a hard working life.
Posts Tagged ‘Wales’
Holywell Harbour
Thursday, March 4th, 2010Snowdonia Mountains
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
The snow-clad mountain lurching behind the tree at the top of this set of images is Tryfan, a mountain that has touched most of the outdoor-orientated folks I know in one way or another. I remember it for terrifying icy winter scrambles, oh, and watching my partner being helicopter-lifted from a decent route. A couple of friends will definitely remember the top of the mountain as the place they became engaged to be married. Another chap we know probably treats it with great respect after dislocating his shoulder on the way down. Once you have walked, scrambled or climbed the north ridge route of this hill, it distills the contradictory mix of outright respect and just plain rocky fun into everyone who passes that way.
The Sinister Snowman
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
The brief sunshine through the freezing cold today reminded me of one of my favourite poems by Wallace Stevens:
One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;
And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the distant glitter
Of the January sun; and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of a few leaves,
Which is the sound of the land
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare place
For the listener, who listens in the snow,
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.
Explosions in the sky
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
From here you can…
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Surf Kayaking at Newgale beach, Pembrokeshire.
This simple composition was partly inspired by the wonderfully abstract work of [Patrice Schreyer] who is taking a break from the rat race with an extended photographic exploration of Iceland.
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Thistles
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
24th Febuary 2008
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Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Warm early morning light pooring into an disused outbuilding, adjoining the Hendre Isaf Basecamp bunkhouse, Betws-y-Coed, North Wales
Snowdon from Llynau Mymbyr. This is much used road-side photography spot, lazily captured in mid-morning light. At sunrise though, Snowdon glows bright orange from this location. I must go back.
