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A short note about my photography before I set out on
today's walk, it's raining again but the forecast is for a touch of sun
around late afternoon so fingers crossed that the rain goes away and I get
out to play. I'm not really interested in photography itself as an art
form what I want to do is capture the moment when I feel wonderment. I
love love love and double love sunsets but I can never ever ever ever get a photo
that does a sunset justice. The colours in the sky are what I want to
capture, the pinks, purples, oranges & reds of the sunset. I want to
build a convenyor belt of colours, firstly they are in the sky, then I
want to capture them in my
camera, put them on my computer and then onto this website. I want to look at my
photos and relive the feel of that sun setting in the distance and that feeling of
wonderment. That's why
I need to learn to point my camera better. I watched a youtube video the
other day that said underexposure is the key to getting good colours so I
just need to remember that and I need to practice it
first. I have to learn to become an artistic photographer.
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Today's walk with photography at sunset in mind I
revisited an old stomping ground Briton
Ferry woods and Baglan Mountain. The latter was one of my slow worm and
grass snake hunting grounds when I was young. The Milefield I figured was
an ideal place for photography this evening, it links Baglan
Mountain to Briton Ferry woods, if you are driving east on the M4 across
the new Briton Ferry bridge the Milefield is the long track following the
line of the pylons up the mountain in front of you. If you can see it
plainly from the M4 the logically you can see the M4 clearly from the
Milefield. Now it's just a track because the brambles have taken hold
but when I was younger is was wide field.
I used to ride it on the mountain bike up until the mid 2000s, it was
great fun, safe but speedy. To start the walk I parked at Briton Ferry
library and headed through the Briton Ferry woods on Lady's Walk, a well
known path. The focus was camera practice. In my opinion I got one decent
shot. 
In
the foreground are The Quays, Neath Port Talbot councils new offices and
depot, mid
shot is the Ferry Bend with Swansea and the Mumbles in the background.
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| A shot up the milefield, I tried a
bit a motion blur on the clouds. I don't think it quite hits the
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The M4 & Fabian Way to Swansea,
there's a rain shower in Jersey Marine. |
Traffic trails on the M4. |
I finished the walk by making it circular,
following the path towards Baglan and cutting back down to the Old Road
and following the main road through Brition Ferry back to the library, a
total of 3.3 miles :)
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