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Paul Saunders
Guest
First sunset of the new year, taken at Caswell Bay, to commemorate my
20th anniversary of landscape photography;
http://www.wildwales.fsnet.co.uk/cbs/20050101cbs1.jpg
Twas on New Year's Day back in 1985 that I took my first serious
landscape shots at Caswell Bay (and pretty crappy they were too!) so it
seemed appropriate to visit the same location. Here's probably the best
shot of that sunset (crappy old scan);
http://www.wildwales.fsnet.co.uk/cbs/19850101cbs1.jpg
Weather forecast was pretty awful for today though - rain and gales.
Didn't seem much chance of a sunset at all, but I jumped in the car and
drove there anyway. The rain had barely stopped and it was mostly
overcast, but a clear slot was opening up in the west and the sky
started to turn orange a few minutes before I arrived.
It looked like it might have developed into a spectacular sunset but
after just 15 minutes it died yet another grey death. Still, I had 10
good minutes! Very lucky to have those in the circumstances!
http://www.wildwales.fsnet.co.uk/cbs/20050101cbs2.jpg
Not much of a walk, but a nice photographic start to the year.
Paul
--
http://www.wilderness-wales.co.uk
20th anniversary of landscape photography;
http://www.wildwales.fsnet.co.uk/cbs/20050101cbs1.jpg
Twas on New Year's Day back in 1985 that I took my first serious
landscape shots at Caswell Bay (and pretty crappy they were too!) so it
seemed appropriate to visit the same location. Here's probably the best
shot of that sunset (crappy old scan);
http://www.wildwales.fsnet.co.uk/cbs/19850101cbs1.jpg
Weather forecast was pretty awful for today though - rain and gales.
Didn't seem much chance of a sunset at all, but I jumped in the car and
drove there anyway. The rain had barely stopped and it was mostly
overcast, but a clear slot was opening up in the west and the sky
started to turn orange a few minutes before I arrived.
It looked like it might have developed into a spectacular sunset but
after just 15 minutes it died yet another grey death. Still, I had 10
good minutes! Very lucky to have those in the circumstances!
http://www.wildwales.fsnet.co.uk/cbs/20050101cbs2.jpg
Not much of a walk, but a nice photographic start to the year.
Paul
--
http://www.wilderness-wales.co.uk