After a couple of hours in conference calls on Sunday it wasn’t until late afternoon that I finally escaped back outside with my new camera. Clouds and heavy showers were the name of the game but with incoming sun forecast we headed down to Bracelet Bay. My original intention had Read more…
As I mentioned in my last post, this weekend heralded the arrival of a new camera into my life. For the last three years I have been using a Panasonic Lumix FZ28 which revolutionised the photographs I was able to take. Its combination of small size and big zoom meant Read more…
Much like a Sunday roast has its leftovers, this fourth and final instalment from Cosmeston contains a few of those photos that I really liked but which didn’t quite fit into the previous entries. It also represents the final output from my present Lumix FZ28 which this weekend has been Read more…
Forest Farm is a small wildlife oasis a few miles from Cosmeston that always manages to pack in so much more than I ever believe is possible. A couple of years ago I saw my first Bittern since childhood there with the added bonus of renowned photographer Andy Rouse also Read more…
In this second of four posts covering last Sunday I shall, as promised, be focusing on the smaller birds that were to be found in the trees and bushes surrounding Cosmestons two lakes. All of these photographs were taken in the space of about twenty minutes while standing on the Read more…
On Sunday we had our most productive and enjoyable day out of the year to date; so successful in fact that a single blog entry would never be sufficient to cover it entirely. Instead consider this the first of a trilogy that is likely to be in four parts (if Read more…
I spent a few hours down at Port Eynon today in visibility that can best be described as poor. For what seemed like the umpteenth time this year a thick band of fog was again swaddling our bit of South Wales forcing me to abandon my plans for a decent Read more…
My last post was very focused on the historical elements of Pembrey country park so in this one I thought I’d take a closer look at the wildlife to be found there instead. We’d actually started our walk that day a couple of miles further down the coast at the Read more…
Carreg Cennen occupies a dominant position overlooking the village of Trapp and is widely regarded as one of if not the most dramatic of the Welsh castles. The original structure dates back to the twelfth century but it was heavily remodelled by John Giffard a hundred years later into the Read more…
I have been mentioning the coming of spring on this blog off and on now for the last couple of weeks, but after last Sunday I feel confident in saying that for me at least spring has definitely arrived. The first clue has been the increasingly vocal displays from our Read more…