OK so we haven't posted anything for a few weeks, a combination of real life getting in the way and a massive build/shoot/edit of a project for an upcoming open call. Anyway, most of what is left of the 'general' pictures from Wales are trains and landscape shots, taken both around Easter and the following Bank Holiday, so we'll start this one with a general selection of the railway pics.
We ended up spending quite a bit of the hol around Tanybwlch on the Ffestiniog, largely because the weather was a bit chilly and they have a nice café which does an excellent pot of Earl Grey, with a nice playground for The Childs. "Merddin Emrys" heads for the station, seen from said playground.
We went to Llanberis to the slate museum as well (mentioned in another post), this was one of only a couple of train shots taken whilst there, of one of the Quarry Hunslet locomotives heading away from Llanberis.
Another quick stop to entertain The Childs, and the miniature railway at the Conway Valley Railway Museum in Betws-Y-Coed (good value for money and, again, does a decent brew).
Back to Porthmadog for the next few shots, and a Welsh Highland service brewing up nicely in the chilly morning air, on a day when the sun actually bothered coming out...
The Bank Holiday weekend gave, against expectations, three days of superb weather so we managed a few more shots around Porthmadog. "Blanche" simmering away in the platform...
...and "Merddin Emrys" on another train, with "Hugh Napier" and "Lilla" giving footplate rides.
Then finally onto another new location for us, one of the other level crossings where the Welsh Highland threads its way through the back streets of Porthmadog.
Not bad as locations for shoots go- a handy wooden fence gives a nice lineside view, so we might return to this one in the future.
Right, next few posts will finish off the selections of pics from the landscape and railway shoots, whilst we finish the projects we're working on.
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