"Home is..." back in Wales

A busy couple of day’s photography in Wales- we arrived Wednesday evening, left Friday evening, and managed to fit an awful lot into a short space of time.  First an update on “Home is…”

Thursday morning dawned very dull and wet, so we gave up hope of getting a chair picture done at all.  When it started to really brighten up all of a sudden around lunchtime we decided to hit the beach for some other photos for another couple of projects, more on which in a separate post shortly. Post beach, with a glorious sunset, we raced up to the road above where we were staying, to a location we’d used for the concept shots last year.

It’s a nice spot, just off a single track, steep clutch-killer of a hill road, with a glorious view of the mountains.  What we’d forgotten though is that it’s also plagued with insect life of every variety from midges to giant wasps and spiders, so it was probably the most painful shoot we’ve done so far.  Still, it had a lovely backdrop for the shots.

Next morning, and with a glorious sunrise we headed out to another old haunt, a lake on the Beddgelert-Snowdon road which Amy had photographed last year.  Our first attempt at this location was marred somewhat by the fact that someone was sleeping in their car in the lay-by, but fortunately a short drive got us a nice spot where we could set up.  Bit of trouble getting everything flat and level, but we finally got a shot we were happy with.

Moving slightly further up the valley to a second lake at the foot of Snowdon, we ended up at a location I’d used about 10 years ago for a project I’d done on my Foundation year.  We had planned just to do a recce, as it was getting a bit light (our aim being to do these particular shots at sunset and sunrise), but it looked so nice we just decided to get a shot done there and then. 

So 3 shots done in 12 hours at 3 different locations, not bad going.  The demands of the day job means we’re back in Yorkshire for a week, but Amy will be using her time off to get some more shots done at a couple of locations near Bingley, more on this tomorrow.  Meanwhile, the next blog entry will be about another project we’re up to at the moment, photos for which we have been shooting in Wales alongside the chair project…