Brecon Beacons and Tenby

Since my last post I have now been to South Wales, lovely scenery in the Brecon Beacons and considering it was Wales we were really lucky with the weather!

But a word of caution, if you intend to go to any rivers or photograph any waterfalls in the warmer summer months use insect repellent! Unfortunately I did not and I got bitten almost 40 times in about 2 hours!

The Brecon Beacons on a sunny day are a great place to see views across South Wales, we travelled along the A4069 which is listed as one of the great driving roads in the UK ever since it was on Top Gear and Jeremy Clarkson drove a Mercedes SLK AMG along it.

I think Top Gear must have had the road closed for filming as there were to many motorbikes and caravans to really enjoy the road but the views were breath taking!

After The Brecon Beacons we travelled to Tenby in the South West of Wales, it is a very picturesque seaside resort with brightly coloured buildings all around the harbour.

In the distance you can just about see the island of Caldey which is only inhabited by about 40 monks and a few islanders. The island is also home to Atlantic Grey Seals and 1000's of sea birds who use the steep cliffs as a nesting site.

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Today I thought I would try some very small subjects in my garden for a bit of macro photography, to the untrained eye they look quite good but I am really not happy with them and they are only suitable for small file sizes so I have uploaded them to Facebook only.

Tomorrow if the sun is out and its a little brighter I will try again with a smaller ISO to make the images clearer and less grainy.

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Since last year I the trip to The Shard last year I have not really been on any photographic trips, the odd day trip to Leeds Castle near to Maidstone in Kent for some winter photography, we were very lucky with the weather as it was a glorious winters day, as you can see from the pics below.

Not really been anywhere since but I have been taking pictures in the garden and I have started an album on Facebook for pictures taken in 2014, here are a selection of the pictures so far..

A couple of weekends ago I visited friends and we went to the Weald & Downland museum close to Singleton in Sussex.

In a couple of weeks time I am planning a trip to the Brecon Becons and Tenby in South Wales so fingers crossed we get some good weather and also that I come back with some decent pictures that I am proud to show!

I am trying to make this an international blog so here is a link to my international Zazzle pages,

Not been on here in ages!

Well so much for me trying to keep a blog of my photographic exploits!

I am afraid that I have been spending to much time on Facebook and just doing other stuff to keep this site up to date, I will try to keep on top of things from now on!