This silhouette shot of Salubrious Place could be mistaken for somewhere other than Swansea, but of course there are clues that might help to direct you towards Britain if not specifically Wales or Swansea.
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Swansea Architecture – Dylan Thomas Centre
This week I am posting images of architecture and architectural structures in Swansea.
Today I start with the old – this currently the Dylan Thomas Centre. Originally build as the Guildhall, its uses have changed many times over the years – you can find out more here.
Arboretum Walk – Featured StillWalks Video
The featured StillWalks video changes today to “Arboretum Walk” which takes place in early Spring and is from Gelli Aur / Golden Grove Country Park in Carmarthenshire, South West Wales.
If you would like this video in HD (720p), you can pay whatever you like via the donate button in the sidebar of the website and I will send you a link to download the video for you to watch in full screen high definition any time you choose. You can watch it on your computer, mobile or HDTV (via USB memory stick).
Dark Water
The very last of the evening light reflects off the dark water of Lower Lliw Reservoir near Swansea.
The reservoir has some sort of filtration system which intermittently creates disturbances in the water surface. Seeing this in the late evening light was quite eerie, as though there was some deep water monster coming up for air!
Accounting for the Rejects
Over the next couple of weeks I am going to be posting a selection of images that didn’t make it into some recent StillWalks videos.
I have recently been working on a series of StillWalks videos around Lower Lliw Reservoir near Swansea, South Wales. During a production day I will take between 300 and 800 photographs. On average, only 10% of these will actually make it into the finished videos, around 50 – 60 images.
I use Adobe Lightroom to review and filter out the images I want to keep or reject and this can sometimes be a difficult process. Post processing individual images is not done until the penultimate stage of selection when the decisions become harder to make.
Overall the images need to tell the story of the walk. Along with the field recording, they need to show progression. The image below was left out of the Summer evening video because the photo was taken facing backwards on the walk and the fence is therefore on the wrong side and not in keeping with the rest of the sequence.