Guernsey, 3rd Day, Les Vardes Quarry, a few multiple exposures
While I was in the quarry at Les Vardes, I made a few multiple exposure photographs, using the Nikon D500 and different blending modes.
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In Snowdonia - Cwmorthin Quarry in monochrome - see more clearly in black and white!
As promised the photos from the previous blog have been digitally converted to monochrome using Silver Efex Pro 2. In most of them I have been pretty heavy with the grain. Which do you prefer? The last picture is the one pinhole photograph I took. My umbrella was blown inside out by the wind and a strut snapped while I was taking it!.
In Snowdonia - Blaenau Ffestiniog and the Cwmorthin Quarry
In came New Years Day 2014 with wind and rain. As the conditions were fairly depressing we thought of going with the ambience and visiting a ruined slate quarry at Blaenau Ffestiniog. The quarry opened in 1810 and 50 years later mining for slate had also begun. The mine was known as the 'Slaughterhouse' as so many men were killed - between 1875 and 1886 there were 22 deaths out of a workforce of around 550. The fortunes of the mine were varied and it opened and closed several times as companies went into liquidation. It closed finally in 1970 although a little quarrying for slate took place in the 80's and 90's. It is approached up a path leading up from the edge of the town passing a small waterfall. The stream follows the path up to a lake and the outflow was used for turning machinery, The main buildings are a set of miners cottages now fallen into disrepair, although in late 2013 a move was made to save them. As there had been some work going on when we were there...
Lake District Workshop - day 2 morning at the quarry
We had a smashing breakfast in Morrisons and a good chat before departing for a very picturesque small quarry south of Derwentwater. I do not know when the quarry had shut down but the bottom now contains a small pond and saplings have grown up around the sides. It is roped off so it is not possible to get right in but you can take pictures from the front and also, by climbing up from the sides, down from a more elevated position. The sun came through the clouds while we were there catching the tops of the trees on the top edge of the quarry. These were the best pictures I managed to take over the 2 days as it was such an interesting area. Again I made extensive use of the 70-200mm zoom and I was so glad I had packed it (and lugged it about). I am afraid I got rather fixated on a small birch that was growing in front of some strange streaked yellow stains in the slate and there are too many pictures of this. As time goes on I will come back to the blog and remove some!! After lunch we...
Wales Day 16 - a walk up the mountain
On the Wednesday Rene had planned to visit a cousin living in Harlech, so we thought we would go for a long walk up the Garn For mountain. We started by walking down to the shore and taking the coast path for a while where cormorants preened on cliffs and rocks. We then diverted inland, past a cottage with a fantastic view over the ocean and up back towards the quarry. We passed under the old bridge from the railway which was once used to transport rock from the quarry, and then on up, having lunch by a ruined cottage that someone had made a halfhearted attempt to mend and then given up on. Alan was pretty pleased with his pasty! The weather was dull and overcast with a swirling mist over the top of the hills which did not dissipate as the day went on. We walked up, more steeply higher and higher, but finally stopped when the mist was all around us and there was no chance of a view. And every chance we would lose ourselves We were forced to turn back but compensated for it by sitting b...
Wales, Day 9 - Abereiddy morning
We had an early start and drove to the beach at Abereiddy. Alan went for a cycle ride and I took pictures of the beach. We then had a quick walk along the headland. Abereiddy is an interesting place and has a huge deep quarry next to the sea, which has now encroached and flooded the workings. There are some ruined workers cottages and a strange round building on a promontory where the ladies of the quarry owners used to take tea! The quarry area was being prepared for an international diving competition and unfortunately had a mass of fencing and workmen round it, so I was limited in the view I could take. Picture 1 was taken with the 14-24mm Nikon zoom and grad filter, the rest with the 16-35mm zoom, the second and last with the Hoya x 10 neutral density filter. The beach at Abereiddy Quarry site at Abereiddy Alan looking for birds View over the islands from the headland