STUPID idea but nice results

As I was in Llangollen today I thought rather than waste fuel on only one job I'd get some stock photos of the castle for archive purposes as it was a nice day and this time of year the sun is low all day 


The four important words from the last sentence "was a nice day " quickly turned into "attack of the gale force driven hail stones, " just before I got to the castle , if it wasn't such a steep climb up I probably would have turned back but I want a reason behind my calves hurting tomorrow


I'm pretty sure I even heard a sheep saying mmmmmeeeidiot meee 


Luckily I think in the 20 minutes or so I was up there I saw all four seasons


Above pics are some of the results , they are also not far from the originals


Next time hot choc and thermals .... actually might wait till summer

CHRISTMAS light switch on Denbigh

I'm really trying to get into the Christmas spirit this year 

So far so good I saw a cow with a Santa hat on yesterday ...... (AMAZING)

This was from last week with some of the cast from Rhyl's Christmas panto help switch on the lights in Denbigh

WHITE wedding

I have got to be honest I don't often do weddings with today being an exception 

 I had a great day , the bride and groom were fantastic fun  and I felt really welcome


Pretty much nobody knew but on exiting the church there was a snow machine organised , quite an inspired move and made for some really interesting photos !

Also I'm all against camera snobbery but I borrowed my friends Canon 7d ( cheers Mel ) and it literally blew my 40d out of the water . 

RHYL Christmas light switch on 2011

RHYL JOURNAL HOMEPAGE

 

It's amazing how quickly a day goes when you're busy !

I finished the day with the Christmas light switch on in Rhyl

It was fantastic that the weather held out (except for a small shower) and see so many hundreds of people on Rhyl High Street to see the light switch on and special guest acts 


There was some great talented performers and Rhyl should be really proud of itself for the show it put on . The acts performing were Ben Williams , Pretty Girl Rock , Becki Herdman and X Factor contestant Sami Brookes , not to forget some of the cast fron Rhyl Pavillions Panto Snow White


Also from my point of view the lighting was fantastic I had my shutter speed up to 400 ISO 800 , and still got some nice crisp well lit images

Pictures and full report will be in next weeks Journal , also on the website ( Follow Link )

http://www.rhyljournal.co.uk/

I'll post a couple more pics next week after publication.... maybe by then I'll get my hearing back to Normal .....

...............And tomorrow light switch on in Denbigh............

RAINBOW through trees

It's always hard to get a decent picture of a rainbow , first of all you can only see them from certain angles so moving round to get a better composition you can lose it completely


Got this through the branches of a tree just to concentrate the colours really

FLINT by night

I had 10 minutes to kill in Flint last night so got a few night shots
( freehand no tripod 1/8 second so hold breath and stand as still as possible )

WYNNE Evans

WYNNE EVANS 

Last week I had the pleasure of being at the launch of the International Eisteddfod that had a special guest Wynne Evans 

If you are from the UK then guaranteed you will know his work even if you don't know his name :  
Wynne Evans VS Jimmy Carr

Yes the "Go Compare" guy 

Short of being annoying like his character he was extremely funny and a very nice person to be around .....although this pic does kinda remind me of Jack Nicholson in The Shining....... "GO COMPARE!"

LIQUID Highlights #2

LIQUID Highlights #1

Damien Tryfano , Fighter Mark Sutton ,
Gaz Oates , Rod Summers Jones 
Jarek Babala , Matt Williams

FIGHT night Liquid Wrexham November 20th 2011 fight card

Fight Card Liquid 20th November 2011

1 :(W) Liam Good ( Brian Nelson's Lau Gar) Vs Damien Tryfanow ( Russ Williams Gym)

2 : (W) Gaz Oates( Alex Gym Mold) Vs Rod Summers Jones ( Williams/Killow Gym Caerwys)

3: Jarek Babala (Russ Williams) Vs (W) Matt Williams ( Russ Williams)

4:(W) Paul Evans ( Ac Muai Thai) Vs Marc Evans ( Russ Williams Gym)

5 :DEMO BOUT Eugine Valerio Vs Ken Burley

6:  MMA >Vitaliijus Gelzinis ( Antonio's Gym Lithuania)Vs (W) Mark Sutton ( Next Level Gym)

7:Alan Davies( Taz Muay thai ) Vs (W) Arwel Morris ( Class Kicks Buckley / Ruthin)

8:James Sumner (Ac Muai Thai Chester) Vs (W ) Andrew Groves ( Thomas Thai ) 
***This is an amended fight card listing the bouts that went ahead on the evening *** 
(W) in front of name signals win

Another very good turnout for the Dragon fight night at Liquid . Above is the fight card for the event 
( Please inbox me if there are any corrections / errors ) 


As the majority of bouts were kickboxing and Thai rather than MMA the cage was replaced with a ring  


While having a rope ring solved some problems of shooting through a cage it also threw up its own testing issues that took a little time to get used to , but fun non the less