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Craig Goch Reservoir – Elan Valley, Wales

Craig Goch reservoir and dam, Elan Valley, Powys, Wales. Craig Goch is the uppermost of the Elan Valley reservoirs.  From here the road meets up with the mountain road towards Aberystwyth at the coast or back east to Rhayader.

Claerwen Reservoir – Elan Valley, Wales

Claerwen Reservoir and dam on a surprisingly pleasant summer day, Elan Valley, Powys, Wales. These waters flow some 70+ miles to quench the thirst of the city of Birmingham.  Claerwen was finished in 1952 and was the last of the reservoirs to be built.

Wild Welsh Mountain Ponies

Wild Welsh mountain ponies in and around Hay Bluff in the Black Mountains area of Brecon Beacons national park, Wales. I’ve posted previously about the wild ponies that run around the mountains here in south Wales.  There’s several herds that hang out on Hay Bluff, just outside of town here.  They make for more interesting […]

Wales – Black Mountain

Black Mountain (yes, singular, not plural) is the name of the westernmost range of the Brecon Beacons national park.  The other two being the Black mountains (plural this time) in the east and along the English border.  While the Brecon Beacons range, from where the national park takes its name and home to the highest […]

68 North | Lofoten Islands Photography

68 North | Lofoten Islands Travel and Landscape Photography I’ve been working for the last couple weeks on a new website for my photos from the Lofoten Islands, Norway.  I wanted a place where I could show more photos, as much of my recent work has been from the islands, but I didn’t want to […]

Raftsundet – Lofoten and Vesterålen

Raftsundet – The mountains of Hinnøya on the left, Austvågøya and Lofoten on the right.  In simple terms, the Raftsund straight is the geographic border between the Lofoten Islands district and the Vesterålen district, though the southern section of Hinnøya belongs to Lofoten and the northern part of Austvågøya to Vesterålen.  Photo from September 2009 […]

Portofino and Camogli, Italy

I was over in Italy working on a project for a couple weeks back in May.  For the most part I was based in Bologna, where unseasonably bad weather brought rain and gloom nearly every day.  Luckily I was working inside most the time, so it wasn’t too bad, but it meant that any free […]

Hiking the Kungsleden Trail in Autumn

Hiking the Kungsleden trail in autumn. I hiked solo on the northern section of the trail for 10 days from September 16-26 2009.  Here are a few FAQs and bits of info that may be useful to any travelers heading to the area at this time of year. All the huts/Fjällstations/hostels along the trail are […]