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One sunny Sunday morning in February 2023 I cycled to Cowbridge in the Vale of Glamorgan. This was an extended cycle which I’d been toying with for a while, but now the conditions were just about perfect. The weather was fine and looked reasonably settled. I had enough time to play with. There was an […]
St Fagans National Museum of History is a true treasure of Wales and Britain. It was fantastic to see it named Art Fund Museum of the Year last week, beating off four other contenders from around the UK to win the prestigious £100,000 prize. St Fagans National Museum of History St Fagans allows visitors to […]
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 […]
“Cheese! Cheese! Cheese!” The crowd starts chanting. A low rumble of voices at first. Slowly it builds until everyone is on the same page. “CHEESE! CHEESE! CHEESE!” They are calling for the release of the first roll of cheese from the top of Cooper’s Hill. Or perhaps they are simply expressing their love for cheese. […]
Gloucester was a gateway city for me, the first I came to know well. Gloucester: ‘Glarster’ if you’re local, perhaps ‘Glowsester’ if you’re American, or ‘Gloster’ to anyone else. It was the closest city to where I grew up in the Forest of Dean and we often made the half hour journey for shopping and […]
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 […]
As a Wales travel photographer, there’s often a sense of renewal when the clocks ‘Spring forward’ into British Summertime. While the mornings might initially feel a touch darker, the evenings feel generous in length thanks to the additional sunlight. This gives more time to drink in the new growth, the flowers and the budding tree […]
Around this time last year I blogged in part about walking Cardiff and the general virtues of walking. Twelve months ago I was walking as I did for many years, largely through the urban city centre streets of Cardiff. In it I rambled about time, death, the death of David Bowie, Cardiff and its cranes. [Read […]