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Shooting stars – saluting Alyn Wallace
1st April 2024
by Mark Hawkins
There are some photographers who you admire from afar for years without ever really engaging or connecting. It’s sort of sad, but such is the age we live in. Alyn Wallace was one such photographer for me, a landscape astrophotographer. He has tragically died overseas, aged I’m guessing around his mid-30s, after a complicated pre-existing […]
Our first trip away as a family of four took us to North Devon in mid-June. And it turned out to be a week of almost constant rain. We stayed in one of a complex of several farmhouses near Ilfracombe. The farm had a few large fields where we could exercise the dog, but there […]
[Please license Cheese Rolling images for private and commercial use via my Alamy library] “Cheese! Cheese! Cheese!” The crowd starts chanting. A low rumble of voices at first. Slowly it builds until everyone is chanting in unison. “CHEESE! CHEESE! CHEESE!” They are calling for the release of the first roll of cheese from the top […]
Just as the idea of physical distance has a certain romance, distant shapes can attain an enchanting mystery. That is, until you eventually go and explore them. Across any town or city there are familiar skyline features: good, bad or indifferent. You will instantly know what some of them are and have little interest in […]
Waking up to see Mount Snowdon through the window of your cabin feels pretty good for the soul. Our little wooden space near Beddgelert campsite was nestled into a hillside surrounded by trails and tracks. Its position next to a large field proved a heavenly back garden for Tal, our young labrador. The owner’s website […]
Clifton Suspension Bridge is a widely celebrated piece of architecture. Despite passing beneath it along the A4 Portway road on countless occasions, I had never been up to the Clifton Down parklands surrounding it, nor walked, cycled or driven across it. Until recently. One glorious sun-kissed Sunday in early May 2017 I photographed Bristol City’s […]
A cold snap in late November 2016 introduced winter weather to Cardiff and much of Wales. Subzero temperatures, heavy frosts, clear skies, frozen windscreens and freezing breath, the world turned an icy white. My post on early autumn colours a short while ago looked at parkland towards the middle of Cardiff, in and around the city […]
Capturing photographs of Cardiff has occupied me for years, but recent weeks have seen the opening of a new chapter. At the start of July I moved into my ninth Cardiff property. Having lived in Cathays, Roath, Canton, Pontcanna and Heath from 1999 to 2006, my last six years have been spent in the Atlantic Wharf […]
A travel photo blog exploring the charms of north Wales and Llandudno. A seaside resort town on the Creuddyn peninsula of the Conwy County Borough, Llandudno is a favourite for picturesque conferences of both political parties and comedians. (Insert your own joke there). Poking out into the Irish Sea, I noticed that it’s on an identical […]
This final Isle of Skye travel post of three takes in Dunvegan Castle, Neist Point, Sligachan and Talisker Bay. Dunvegan Castle Dunvegan Castle is a stand-out tourist attraction on a north western tip of the Isle of Skye. We saw numerous leaflets about it, it’s boldly marked on every map, it has a long and […]