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Running into the wind

My Walk this Week 205 – Memories of North Wales

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My walk this week is from the archives with memories of North Wales and a windy visit to Colwyn Bay.

Paraglider and rainbow

Some were taking advantage of the wind in a colourful way and the sky just wanted to join in by throwing out a rainbow to accompany the wind surfing paraglider, while other like myself were getting rather more battered by it. Nonetheless, it was an enjoyable walk and thrilling to be entertained by those men and their “flying machines”.

The patterns and colours of sand and wind, rust and fencing, waves and water effects in what appears to have been a changeable day are a good reminder of the experience. The soundscape also serves as an excellent transportation device to take me back there with the images – I can almost feel and smell the sea spray!

Colwyn Bay Soundscape

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Colwyn Bay and pier
Colwyn Bay and pier
Colwyn Bay Pier
Colwyn Bay Pier
Crossing to the sea
Crossing to the sea
Colwyn Bay fencing
Colwyn Bay fencing
fence reflections
Colwyn Bay Reflections
Seaweed on fence
Seaweed on fence
Fence focus 2
Fence focus 2
Colwyn Bay Crustaceans
Colwyn Bay Crustaceans
Under the pier
Under the pier
sand patterns
sand patterns
Colwyn Bay
Colwyn Bay
Paragliders
Paragliders
Paragliders
Paragliders
Paraglider and rainbow
Colours in the Sky
Paragliders in the surf
Paragliders in the surf
Wild and Windy
Wild and Windy
Dark Sea and Weathered Fence
Dark Sea and Weathered Fence
Running into the wind
Running into the wind
Wind blown sand
Wind blown sand
Sand Drift
Sand Drift
Sand Haze
Sand Haze
Pier Structure
Pier Structure
Worthing beach

My Walk this Week 148 – Summer in Winter on the South Coast

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My walk this week takes place on a Summer day in Winter on the south coast of England. It was mid-February but the temperature reached over 20 degrees celsius!

Man and dog on beach

Staying overnight on the seafront in Worthing, we awoke to a beautiful, bright day and took time for a walk along the stony beach with its ageing, bleached wood groynes. The garish colours of a multi-storey car park on the road side were followed through and improvedContinue reading→

Aberystwyth Framed

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Aberystwyth framed

I like this shot of Aberystwyth framed by one of the structures on the beach – not the pier but another walkway that extends out into the waves. The variation of scale or perception of it is one of the most interesting things to me, with the heavy concrete pillars in the foreground and the buildings appearing almost like toys or models in front of the massive scale of the hill directly behind.Continue reading→

Dark Sea and Weathered Fence

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With the wild wind and dark sea on my walk along the beach at Colwyn Bay this week, it was with some relief that I finally passed alongside the safety fence around the dilapidated pier and up off the beach. In fact the weather was exhilarating, all the more so because it didn’t rain and wasn’t so rough as to make it too difficult to contend with.

Dark Sea and Weathered Fence

Dark Sea and Weathered Fence

Colwyn Bay Wind Clatter

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Dark Sea and Weathered Fence
Triple Columns
Pier Structure
Fence Structure
Beach Exit

 

Collecting Seaweed

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My short walk this week across the beach at Colwyn Bay in North Wales presented some fabulous patterns. The dilapidated state of the old pier was protected by these barriers which have clearly been there long enough to gather a healthy collection of seaweed.

seaweed and fencing

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Changing Light and Patterns in the Pier

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The sun was going down on my walk across the beach at Colwyn Bay and as it did so, the light subtly changed. There was some hazy cloud cover in the west and so the contrast of light and shade quite never disappeared, but still had an effect on the atmosphere as well as my camera settings. The patterns in the construction of the pier were always there along with the colour, more or less strengthened by the sunlight.

Colwyn Bay-28

Colwyn Bay-27

My Walk this Week – North Wales Recce 1

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A recent trip to North Wales gave me the opportunity to explore a little of two potential locations for StillWalks productions. The first one wasn’t planned, but I had time after my scheduled meeting at Colwyn Bay to walk down to the expansive beach. The end of day sun was low and contrast and patterns high on the broken pier.

Colwyn Bay and pier

Colwyn Bay and pier
Colwyn Bay Pier

A Visit to Mumbles

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Last week I had to visit Mumbles – a very popular place at the western end of Swansea Bay and at the gateway to the Gower Peninsula. It is a major tourist attraction and I enjoyed my short visit despite the dreary weather. Unfortunately my reason for visiting was to collect some videos from the Tourist Information Centre or TIC which had just closed.

It seems illogical to me to do this. I imagine it is partly because it is so much cheaper to deliver these services online. However, a balance of digital and “hard copy” is what I have always believed to be the best and most cost effective means of delivering a service or resource. I suspect that both visitors and town will loose out as a result of this change and I hope that the centre is able to set up afresh in a new premises.

The structures in the first image are Mumbles Pier and the new RNLI Lifeboat Station.

Mumbles lifeboat station

Mumbles seagulls