Marchlyn Mawr & Llanberis Jan 19/20 th 2020

My first trip out this year , a walk up to Marchlyn mawr reservoir in the mountains near to Dinowig , Llanberis.     The weather is looking very nice, clear blue sky and very light winds, which is not good for photography though!
Parking up with the route straight up the road ,which goes directly up to the reservoir. It is a steady climb all the way.

               There is not much snow on the tops , it has been a very warm winter so far.

A great view across to Anglesey, I can see Penmon point lighthouse over to the far right , and Newborough and Llanddwyn island over to the far left in the distance.  Holyhead mountain is also clearly visible in the distance.

                                          Lovely light down there, but not up here unfortunately.

 Having reached the reservoir, a quick phone pic and now time to get the drone in the air for a few images.

                     All  9 frame panoramas  from the maximum height allowed which is 400 ft

                Time to walk back down now, there are no more compositions to be shot here.
The next day I have brought the Terrible Twosome out with me, Ozzy pup needs a slightly longer walk now he is 5 months old and growing fast .   A walk along to Dinorwig quarry early in the morning .
Both posing fairly nicely , it will take time to get him to pose like Mol did, but he is doing  pretty good already .

                   A 3 frame hdr merge of the old quarry buildings high up on the slate mountain.

This quarry must have been amazing when actually in use, there are disused buildings everywhere dotted around the mountains .

Leaving the Quarry, I have driven around to Llanberis and stopped of at Dolbadarn castle .There is quite a lot of cloud building up over the mountains on my right approaching this direction, so I need to get the drone up quickly as there is a clearing of the clouds which may allow the sun to break through to illuminate the castle.
After a couple of minutes the sun did exactly what I wanted ,  I managed just two sets of frames for these 2 Vertorama images before the light went .   perfect .

                                                                  5 frames merged

                                                                   6 frames merged

Time to move on , and just down the road near the bottom of Nant Peris I have stopped to take this panorama image of the lovely light on the mountains.

            Now to give the boys a run,  stopping of on the beach on the way home ,  happy pups.

The end of a couple nice days out …………………..

Dorset Holiday September 2019 pt1 West Bay

Early in September we went on holiday down to Dorset,  this was the last holiday with Mollster as it turned out ,as we have lost her after an accident while running on the beach after coming home.

Parked up for an overnight stay near Torquay, the forecast for tomorrow is dreadful though!

                                                        Wonderful light just before sunset.

                           In the morning we have driven into Torquay to visit Kents Caverns.

The "Face"   inside Kents Caven   Torquay ,   it was torrential rain all day so didn't get to walk around the town unfortunately.

                                                                          5dsr, 17-40L

We have now driven down to West Bay for the next step of our travels,  the rest of the day has been torrential rain.    But tomorrow is looking good .
 We are staying for 2 nights  in the holiday park near the marina.

In the morning we are walking along the cliffs and down onto the beach with the Terrible Twosome
The light and clouds are great, I should have brought the drone, but I thought it was too windy!

That was a great morning on the beach,   now for sunset I have come down on my own past the harbour and onto the beach below the fabulous cliffs.

 
                                                           5dsr  17-40 L  f14  1/5 th second.

I have climbed up to the top of East Cliff to fly the drone , to get the last rays of the setting sun illuminating the mighty cliffs .  Just what i wanted to shoot .

                                                                   21 frame panorama.

Walking back through the marina to go back to the van the sky lit up!  in the wrong place for any other images but quite like this one .

Tommorow we are heading to the Durdle Door campsite for 3 days.

Bedruthan Beach and Hartland Quay

Our last morning at the Bedruthan campsite, this afternoon we are heading back into Devon to Hartland ,hopefully to shoot a sunset .

Time for a last run on the beach for the Terrible Twosome.

The tide is out but on its way in, so the waves are getting bigger out past the shallow water . not that the dogs care.

                                                  The Drowned Rat look for Mollster.

                                                         Mad looking Chester,  haha

                                 Just cannot keep her out of the water, even when on the lead!

                                            The steps,   a long steep way up to the top now.

They are drying off in the sun, both knackered by looks of it.  We will be leaving late afternoon to get to Hartland an hour or so before sunset.

We have now driven up into Devon to Hartland Quay , I want to photograph sunset before we head home tomorrow.

                                                There is a old ship wreck in the car park.

Up with the drone now as its about half hour before sunset,  nice light with thin cloud diffusing the sun at the moment.

                                                           A five frame Vertorama.

                                                      Low altitude shot of the same area.

                               Hartland Point lighthouse is over on the far left in this image.

Out over the sea looking across the bay over the hotel and looking towards st Catherine's tor in the middle of the image.  5 frame Vertorama .

                                           Full 9 frame panorama of this stunning coastline.

                             There are some big waves hitting the rocks in front of the hotel.

Vertorama of the rock formations . The sun has almost set now, so time to land and get the dslr camera out for some long exposure images.

I have set up the dslr out now for a few images but don't think the sunset is going to come to much, and the tide is way higher than I needed to shoot the rock strata in front of the hotel.

                                                                      15 seconds  f14

One last image ,i couldn't get down to where i had planned so this is shot from the wall above the beach.

That is the end of a fabulous holiday in Devon and Cornwall...…………….