Queen Victoria in the Mersey
Our timing was good but totally fortuitous, the Queen Victoria, Canard’s smaller sister (Queen Mary 2 and Elizabeth being larger) was due into Liverpool on the morning we were heading back to Wales.
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Our timing was good but totally fortuitous, the Queen Victoria, Canard’s smaller sister (Queen Mary 2 and Elizabeth being larger) was due into Liverpool on the morning we were heading back to Wales.
We are trying to establish a gallery space at the Atrium on the second floor. ( The Atrium is the University of Glamorgan’s Media Centre in Cardiff and where I teach part-time) Probably going to name it Oriel f2.
During the year I spent on the farm my aim was to photograph just about everything that each day would bring.
Continuing the the series of opening up negatives from 30 years ago.

My work with a farming community in Bala, North Wales started some 28 years ago and over the next year I’m aiming to take the work back to the community to properly archive all the images.

I’ve been out and about to various parts of the country in the last week or so, and as always camera with me, without it you feel somehow undressed.

During our recent holiday to Cheddar we cycled over to Wells and spent an enjoyable day in and around the Cathedral.

It’s been a while since the last post. We’ve been away at Cheddar Gorge. The weather was with us and lots of images were taken.

After visiting the hugely impressive photography department at Falmouth, Nia and I went on to Lizard Point, the most southerly place on the British mainland.

There’s a good exhibition on at the moment, it’s in St. Donats Art Centre that showcases the work of Bert Hardy and the time he spent for Picture Post in Tiger Bay, Cardiff, in the early 1950′s.

The third area we’ve taken students to recently is Trefil Quarry, on the edge of the Brecon Beacons National Park.

The second set of images come from the Ironworks at Blaenavon.

We are really fortunate in South Wales to have such a variety of topographical features within a really small area. Read more…

For a long while now I’ve wanted a camera that I can carry around with me, isn’t heavy, has all the manual features I enjoy on a camera and compliments a lot of the long lens photography I’m currently involved with.