Visit to Big Pit at Blaenavon

This weekend I visited Big Pit which is a mining museum at Blaenavon in South Wales, most of the outside I have photographed many times, so I concentrated more on internal shots. The first one was a amp meter of some sort of heavy drilling machine, the second one was in the personal locker room where the miners would had kept their own kit, and the final image was taken in the generator room, which was dark, but had some strong light coming through one of the windows.

  

Llanddew Church

I have been visiting this church on various occasions at different times of day, just to get the right lighting. This particular day the sunlight was strong, so I took three different exposures and blended them in Photoshop before converting to Monochrome, then with quite a bit of dodging and burning, I made the main cross more pronounced within the image. 

Playing with Macro

We had a Macro workshop at my Camera Club last Friday evening, so it was interesting to have a go at something new. This was a slice of orange in a glass of lemonade suspended by a piece of wire and lit by two desk lamps.

Afternoon Walk up Fan Frynych

11th February 2012


As the sun had popped out for the day, I thought I would go out for a walk. The walk started along this muddy track as the sun had now turned the melted snow and frost into a watery mess on the ground, but as we ascended the ground got firmer, as the sun was still not able to penetrate the colder ground. Just before leaving the tree line, the sun was nicely positioned to light up our track, so a photo just had to be taken.

Plus a close up of the fence line, showing the melting ice.

Port Talbot International Salon

5th February 2012
I have had three images accepted into this years Port Talbot International Photo Salon, these particular images have done well in lots of other competitions and salons.