The fountains across the road from the Wales Millennium Centre were at the end of our walk along Cardiff Bay barrage.
Click the first thumbnail image below to view the photos from this week’s walk in sequence (plus a couple of extras).
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Dockland Buffers – Comparing Colour and Monochrome
Aha! Those objects I couldn’t clearly identify earlier in the week on our walk across Cardiff Bay barrage, are buffers for ships using the docks.
Although I find these scenes interesting and those buffers fascinating, I wondered what they might be like in black and white. It is perhaps best to say b&w rather than monochrome because I deepened the darker areas, strengthened the contrast, added some grain and left no hint of colour in any spectrum.
Exit and Reviewing the Week 3
This apparently disused railway line is fact one of the entry and exit routes for deliveries to and from the steel processing plant I have been looking at all week – see the gallery below.
Torn Curtains
I assume these torn screens were supposed to stop dust and debris getting out rather than stopping me looking in, but they seem to have come pretty close to the end of their life!
Anatomy of the Beast – Fantasy and Reality
It was easy for me to think of and describe the images of yesterdays post in living terms. Is this the belly of the beast below, and its throat? My assumption that the industry was steel was correct but without more specific knowledge of the plant, I could not name the various parts of its anatomy.
I took a look at the site of these photos on Google Maps – it is very different as you would expect. I was able to put a name to the company as well – all this weeks photos are from the steel processing plant of Celsa Steel UK in Cardiff.
A Mother of Industry
This huge industrial structure of ducts looks to me like a giant metal insect sitting on and protecting its brood.
The yellow “veins” of the “creature” allow the “worker colony” to get about the complex.
And below, a sign of real life flies overhead.
Monochrome Steps
I like the hi-vis colour of the staircases in the industrial area of Cardiff but this first shot cried out for the monochrome treatment. Another of these can be seen on the Monochrome Madness 39 blog post of Leanne Cole Photography
It's Not Rocket Science
It is not a rocket but I assume this huge structure is some kind of furnace. I confess I am more interested in its appearance than its function but I will try to find out – unless anybody out there can tell me and save me the trouble!
