Bracelet Bay revisited

After reviewing the shots I took over in Swansea last weekend I decided that I wasn't very happy with them so I took it upon myself to get back down there and get some good ones! The weather wasn't so good this weekend, there was too much cloud cover and the tide was high so things looked a little different. The wind was blowing a gale; standing on a massive rock teetering over the edge of the water in said gale was probably not the best idea in the world! Compounded by the fact that I forgot to bring my gloves meant that I had to take photos in sporadic periods, warming my hands back up in between.


Doing this for about 2 hours was worth it in the end as I am much happier with the results that I got this time, my patience also paid off since there was a break in the clouds later on allowing for some dramatic skies :)


Here is a link to the updated gallery.

Bracelet Bay

I visited Bracelet bay on Saturday, it’s a very picturesque place found right on the end of the Mumbles in Swansea. We got there at low tide so there were plenty of rock pools which Maria went off to discover, while she was doing this I settled down an tried to get some nice photos.


After taking a series of shots on slide film with my Mamiya I switched to the D70, I wanted to get some shots of the lighthouse from the cliffs seen in the photo above. I climbed up to the very top and perched myself on the furthest point, in a very precarious position but managed to get some of the nicest pictures from up there.


Here is a link to the full gallery on my site.

Fun with Slides

I got my first transparencies back from the lab on Friday, all I can says is wow. I had no idea that they would look as nice as they do. Here are a couple of the good ones:



Both were taken with my Mamiya with the 90mm lens on Velvia 50, 1/8th @ f/32.

Llanthony Priory

I revisited Llanthony yesterday to get a few more shots of the beautiful scenery that resides there. I was pretty glad when I walked around the first corner I spotted an old barn which looked like it would make a nice photo, here is the result:


Rather than go on a proper hike it was more of a trip centred on getting some nice photographs so we (me and Maria) only went part of the way up the mountain side. Below is a shot taken at the highest point hat we reached near an old dry stone wall that had seen better days.


I took this chance to get some shots out of the Mamiya and managed to shoot off a roll of Ilford HP4+ and my second roll of Velvia. This time I was making sure that the roll got all the way to the lab! I posted it off this morning so give it a week and I should be able to show of my first roll of chromes :)

Here is a link to the gallery of shots I took yesterday, I'll be adding more when I get round to scanning the negs with my brand new scanner that should be arriving this week.