"Home is..." rain, waterfalls, clouds, and midges

A mixed couple of days for the project… Saturday was another heavily overcast, wet day (as can be seen from this shot, taken from the battlements of Caernarvon Castle).  Still, nice to be able to have a bit of a lie-in and not get up at 5am, and to spend time with relatives during the day without worrying about photography.

Sunday morning was forecast to be rather better, so we got up early and went to do a shoot at some partially-logged Forrestry Commision land.  It was a shoot which was marred a bit by problems though; the lighting wasn’t quite right when we arrived at about half five, we did a shoot (getting eaten alive by midges in the process), and moved on to another location.  The second location though –an abandoned level crossing on a derelict railway- was too overgrown for the shoot, so we doubled back to the logged forest.  By this point it was lighter, but the shoot got a bit chaotic and rushed with the midges and the presence of a dog walker heralding increased use of the car park we were somewhat monopolising.  Polite dog walker though, its nice to meet one every now and again.

Sunday afternoon was used for a bit of location scouting in the woods above Prenteg/Aberdunant, and some long exposure pics of waterfalls which were carrying a great deal of flood water off the hills.  No evening shoot though; too cloudy and wet.

Monday saw a painfully early start on the last day of photography; at least with our family having set off for home, we didn’t have to worry about tip-toeing around in the morning, and could blunder and crash around the place exhaustedly to our hearts content.  The location for the shoot was at Aberglaslyn, above the National Trust car park (an area I use for railway pictures sometimes).  The midges were out in force again, and the lighting was a little odd, but we seem to have managed to get at least one useful shot out of the location, eventually.

Its back to the day job for a couple of days coming up, then hopefully back to Wales for another couple of shoots; we’ve also got an unrelated project for another open call underway today before we head back, so updates on that shortly too.