GNS - Day 30/100

Monday, 29 April, 2024 

Day 30/100 of my project to produce a GNS fanzine. All going well.

swanseaphotography.co.uk

 Friday, 26 April, 2024

I've always been fascinated by these trees. It feels cool to have lived around them for a few months. 

 

With my Glastonbury trip, planned for next week, cancelled, I've decided to utilise the time I had allotted to its planning and being there to get my Swansea photography project up and running again. Unfortunately, some fleecer had purchased (and put up for sale at an elevated price) the URL I had originally tied to the site. And so, the updated documentary project now sits at swanseaphotography.co.uk .

fudjcrum is loving our new bed

Thursday, 24 April, 2024

I came 'home' today to find fudjcrumb fast asleep on our new bed. It was her first day alone in the house.

Settling In

Tuesday, 22 April, 2024

A New Chapter Begins...

Monday, 22 April 2022

Well, we finally left the caravan park this morning:

And moved back into the city. With a 3 month contract on a house about a five minute drive from our proper residence on the top of the hill:

A North Gower Marsh Drive

Sunday, 21 April, 2024

Our last drive through the North Gower marshland. Tomorrow we head back to the city.

Grabbed

Friday, 19 April, 2024

I managed to grab a few hours of writing time this afternoon after finishing work today. I am really pleased with how my latest novel is going :)

Making the most of the clearest night of our caravan stay, I headed down to photograph the planet Venus shining in the twilight sky over Llanrhidian marsh just after dusk.

Goodbye Penclawdd (for mow)

 Thursday, 18 April, 2024

I took a last goodbye (for now) walk around Penclawdd this evening after work. The lighting wasn't too fantastic, hence my choice of black and white for a number of the shots. I've enjoyed my time living back near the marsh and have felt the magical sense of hiraeth for the first time in my life, Sadly, the city calls...

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This is the Road to Hell

Catweazel

 Wednesday, 16 April, 2024

My Diet Begins...

Tuesday. 16 April, 2024

Second day back at work, though an early finish allowed me to do a little extra writing on my next novel, Familiar.

Also, I started my much-needed weightloss program today with an official weigh in. Gonna make it public in the hope it encourages me to make good progress on it. I'm healthy again, and back in work, so should hopefully be a lot more active again. I just have to keep off those addictive crisps!

As I finally left work, I couldn't help but take another Shadowme pic with this interesting shadow:

Back to the Office

Back at the office. But to balance the ☯️ I saw this 🌈

Penclawdd Industrial Revolution Slag

Sunday, 14 April, 2014

I took a walk out to the old rocks on the east side of the Penclawdd marsh this afternoon. These curious large boulders on the east end of the Penclawdd marsh are the industrial slag waste from the old metal works that were once located here and formed part of Britain's historic Industrial Revolution. During that time, coal, tinplate, lead, copper, silver and brass were all worked on this part of the Gower coastline. Today, as you can see, the landscape this industry once polluted to drive Britain's wealth is a scene of serenity.

I have been meaning to visit this area of Penclawdd for a while now, but I have always failed to take decent photos of these 'rocks'. I'm happy with the images I managed to harvest today, though. They will be useful for my Explore Gower book, Tidal Gower, which I shall be working on later in the year.

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Links 

 https://goweros.blogspot.com/2013/06/penclawdd-copperworks-slag-boulders.html

Another Sunset Drive

 Saturday, 13 April, 20024

I'm going to miss this place.