After three weeks of remorseless Napoleonic history, I thought we’d all like a change, so this week is going to be just photographs of Wales.
I love Wales, specifically mid-Wales – the bit that isn’t the valleys or the tourist mecca of Snowdonia. Mid-Wales is sheep and hills and an enormous amount of nothing. You can walk all day and not see another human being, but you will see some stunning scenery.
If you follow me on Twitter, you will know that I love taking photos of Wales. I love the light and the amazing skies.
There is also a lot of opportunity to take “arty” photographs.
I have fun with my camera, though lugging a chunky SLR up some of those hillsides gets wearing eventually. I’m happy that the cameraphones are getting steadily better!
I’d like to share my pictures online, but I’m not sure of the best way to do it. I’ve looked at Instagram, but it seems very limited on formatting (or am I missing something?). I could post more of my pictures here on my own website (there are some on my ‘Photos’ page) but if I put them up at full-res they take ages to load and then my site runs slowly. Now that so many people use Instagram, can anyone recommend a decent free on-line resource for this?
Meanwhile, I’ll leave you with this picture from last weekend.
Love them all – damn, I could have bought the sunlight through trees one from you for my new book cover, had it not just been done! I adore the grey misty trees. My favourite.
I’m sorry I’m late. I have lots of photos of the wood that you liked and will post those some time. If you ever want cover photos featuring rural scenes (without any people) or dancers, do give me a shout
Nice photographs. How often do you go out on photography walks?
The quality of pictures on my phone has improved to the point where I will often just use that, so to that extent all my walks are photography walks! The first two of the “arty” photos were taken on my phone. I climbed up another day specially to get the water bubbling in the stream on my SLR and I didn’t think the pic I got was nearly as good.
I try to get to Wales at least once a month April to October and we usually have three or four days walking, but I only occasionally carry the SLR up the hills. It may not be that heavy but by the end of the day it can be a nuisance.
I sometimes take a camera out locally, but the nearby parks and river have been pretty much photographed to death by me over the years.
For the record, there ain’t nothing wrong with the Valleys!
And Pembrokeshire and the Gower are some of the most beautiful places in the world.
(And Wales, in general, is the most beautiful country in the world. I don’t make the rules, I just let everyone else know what they are!) 😉
What little I have seen of the Valleys is lovely, but they are very different from mid-Wales and people from there will explain that their bit of Wales is particularly beautiful.
Snowdon is lovely too, but so full of people. I prefer parts of the country where sheep outnumber humans by hundreds to one.