Aberdulais Falls and Tin Works

Visit Date: February 2019Aberdulais is a small village in the Vale of Neath in South Wales.Its history starts way back in 1584, when a German engineer Ulrich Frosse, perfects a new method of smelting copper to make coins. His need was to ply his trade far from his competitors and he chose the small Welsh town of Aberdulais.However, the story of Aberdulais really starts over 200 years later when in...

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Mumbles Lighthouse

Visit Date: August 2020:Mumbles is a small coastal village near the city of Swansea in South Wales.It sits at the eastern edge of the Gower peninsular much of which forms the first area in the United Kingdom to be designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.Mumbles or as we call it "The Mumbles" is a beautiful place to visit and I'm confident that the village will be the subject of a future...

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Golden Hour at Ogmore Beach

Visit Date: October 2020 - (A PB Repost)Despite all the great advice, I am not one who necessarily chases for the best light. I would say that I prefer to visit places and take the best photographs I can with what's available.Although I love photography perhaps equally the "getting out" and enjoying the experience is what I'm after.If a get a shot that I am happy with that's great if not? Well, there's...

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Stormy Lime Works

Visit Date: November 2021. .After seeing a local report where someone had visited this site the information that he gave so interested me in this local area that I ventured out to this abandoned Lime Works and was very surprised by what I found.The Stormy Lime works I have since heard has been also called the Pyle Lime works, the 'Stormy Stone and Brick Company' and also The Tranch Pyle Lime Works.The...

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Cerrig Duon and Maen Mawr

 Visit Date October 2021.  Another ancient site in south Wales today the site of Cerrig Duon and Maen Mawr.The actual site is called Cerrig Duon and it consists of a very low stone circle and a standing stone just outside the circle called Maen Mawr, which unimaginatively translates to "Large Stone".The site of Cerrig Duon (translates to black stones), which probably dates to the Bronze...

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