Wind, Rain and Laughter...

The nice thing about living here in North Wales is that you get a chance to show it off to all your friends and family whenever they come visiting. This last couple of weeks have been rather manic, with three lots of visitors coming to stay over a two week period. The weather has been quite kind to us, although there has been plenty of wind and some heavy downpours. But, all in all, we've had more than our fair share of the sunny stuff.Most of our visitors are from the major towns and cities, so it's always a great buzz to take them out into the mountains and to watch their reactions as they take in the views and soak up all that wide open space. It isn't long before they start to unwind and relax.
Even after nine years of living here It doesn't get much better then this.

Two Into One...

Clever bit of software this Photomatix. Take one picture exposed for the sky then another exposed for the foreground, drop them into the software and it blends the two together making a perfect mix.
This may seem like cheating but in fact the human eye can see a greater range of light and dark then any camera can capture, so this final image is a truer reflection of how the eye would perceive the scene. And that’s just the start of what it can do…

Cable Bay, or Porth Trecastell as it’s called locally, lays alongside the A4080 coast road just a short drive from Rhosneigr. A beautiful sandy beach and great waves for surfing when the wind blows. Fantastic cliff walks, which take you up to one of the most interesting and oldest burial mounds on the island. Come rain or shine it’s well worth a visit.

Mother of Wales...

Someone once asked me, which of all my images that I had taken in and around Anglesey summed up my love of the island. Well, that would always depends on what mood I was in at the time of asking… But having lived here back in the seventies and now having returned in the new millennium, there is one image that I feel captures the beauty, the bleak, the wild and the melancholy that this place holds for me. (Or more truthfully, holds over me…)
This is an image of nature shaping the landscape. Of the landscape bowing and bending to the forces of nature, an image that has remained unchanged for thousands of years…
One could say that this image could be of anywhere, but I know that it is of Anglesey, the beautiful Mother of Wales.

For the love of it...

One minute you’re photographing the wild rugged countryside of North Wales, the next, some ladies leather handbags and multi coloured baby bibs. Still, the need to be adaptable is very much a necessity when you’re scratching a living in such a remote location. (And, of course, leather handbags and baby bibs earn me more money in a day then I get from my rugged countryside images in a year.)

Speaking of rugged countryside images… here’s a picture just to remind me why I came here in the first place.