We have had a months rain in the last 24 hours and that can sometimes cause problems. The marshes near us are tidal and when the tide is high and there has been a lot of rain, that is when the trouble starts.
This StillWalk video shows the marshes after a spring tide. You can’t avoid the traffic on this walk but it doesn’t stop the birds calling and has never spoilt my enjoyment of the walk.
Actually it’s not show time yet, not for the Pontarddulais Show anyway – that happens at the end of August and we have the Carnival before that in June.
I have put up this StillWalks video and photos because it was the starting point for the equestrian photography which I am doing again this year for Clydach Riding Club.
Here’s looking forward to a good Summer with fingers crossed.
More images from that walk in Dorset.
All images are available to buy at the StillWalks PhotoShelter site.
And the StillWalk video can be watched in the Summer Walks collection.
Not everybody likes the wind but I, personally, don’t have a problem with it – I even like it on occasion.
This StillWalk takes place on a very windy hillside in Dorset, S.W. England. There is not much more sound in it than the wind!
What am I saying, of course there is – my footsteps walking through grass or on a lane, opening and closing gates, climbing over stiles – and of course the wind sounds themselves change with its strength, the kind of trees around, my position in relation to it and the landscape.
Who likes the wind? Watch the video below and click on the photo to enlarge.
This is where I will be today – a windy(?) Dorset. I took this a while back now and it was a dull and very windy day.
It is a very “English” landscape, quite painterly!
Click the images to enlarge.
Yesterday gave us a return to the wind and rain as can be seen and heard in these photos and sound clips taken in my studio.
The metallic sounds are from the rusty metal I was photographing recently – see them on PhotoShelter.
We had a very cultural day out to Cardiff a couple of days ago. Having a picnic lunch in the tulip filled gardens in front of the National Museum of Wales was bliss in the sunshine . . . and the museum itself with the current exhibitions (Julian Stairs and Pop Art) never ceases to amaze me with the fantastic collection it has.
Tulips in Cardiff
Diffusion at the Tram Shed
The Diffusion Festival is also filling the city this month and we visited the Tram Shed to see two photography exhibitions in a fascinating venue – The Valleys Re-Presented by various artists and High Rise by Peter Bobby. I have to say I was as taken with the venue as I was with the work. One of my daughter’s lecturers had work in this show which was a good way for us to select what venue to visit amongst all that is going on in the festival.
The Tram Shed, Cardiff
Last but not least we visited the Chapter Arts Centre. Again, my daughter had been studying one of the artists (Maurizio Anzeri) who is exhibiting there and so it was any easy choice amongst all the galleries to choose from.
Click the links to find out more about the exhibitions and venues.
Doing photography almost invariably involves time spent waiting. If others are involved in any way, this is inevitably the case and even if they are not, you often have to wait for the conditions to be right – the wind to drop, the sun to come out or whatever.
The extra shots I took on Sunday morning at Clydach Riding Club show jumping reflect some of that time – I wasn’t the only one waiting for the next event!
My horse show photography, including extras, can be seen and is for sale on the StillWalks PhotoShelter site.
Watching Legs
Walking the course
Messing Around
Waiting their turn
Waiting their turn
Full Bloom