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I recently discovered Stuart Herbert’s Photo Diary. Stuart is an excellent amateur photographer who concentrates on landscapes and Post-Industrial South Wales. He’s currently documenting the Merthyr Road – the legacy of the industrialisation of the South Wales Valleys from Merthyr Tydfil to Cardiff Docks. Stuart is great at capturing the essence of the industrial South [...]

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The daffodil is the national flower of Wales. This is a great shot of one in our garden with the sunlight streaming through it. The roadside verges, gardens and parks throughout Wales are full of daffodils at this time of year.  A great Welsh sight!

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So some strange goings on in Cardiff Bay as revealed by Google Street View.  Street View has provoked some controversy and some interesting comments over privacy issues but at the end of the day it doesn’t actually show anything that isn’t publicly available to someone walking down the street on the day that the photos [...]

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I took this picture down in Langland Bay last summer.  It’s a favourite spot for surfers in the Gower and the wind was really strong on this day so the surf was up. I got some good action shots using a long lens. This guy was quite a way out and I took the picture [...]

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Last weekend we went to the Wales GB rally. It was a brilliant day for it as the two photos show.  It was cold (- 3°C) but without any clouds at all, so it was gloriously sunny.

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The village of Sigginstone (or Sigingstone) near Cowbridge is famous for two things – the Victoria Inn pub and the Llandow Plane Crash. On Sunday March 12th 1950 an Avro Tudor V was returning from Dublin with 78 rugby supporters on board.  The previous day Wales had won the coverted Triple Crown in Belfast.  75 [...]

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After several days of grey and gloom there was an amazing sunset in Cardiff Bay tonight – a gradual change from blue to black in the sky colour, but most amazing of all was that two planets were easily visible. In the photo you can see Venus to the lower right (almost in the centre [...]

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A classic from the BBC News site today. The sign pictured left was erected in Swansea. The Welsh translation translates back as “I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated.” A classic copy and paste error. See the original BBC article here for full details. Photo copyright [...]

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