A Welsh country Garden 11.9.2015

I had visited my friend on many occasions and admired her garden, on this occasion I was lucky enough to be able to photograph it.wherever I turned there were more amazing finds.I liked how everything was reused and fitted perfectly into the environment as if they had always been there. 

These looked amazing when the sunlight shone on them, they reminded me of glass buoys.I liked how the rope complemented them to make it complete.

This looked like some kind of wheel, but it was how the moss had started to grow on it and how the bush behind it had started to entwine with it over the years that drew me towards it.

This looked so inviting to any bird and reminded me of the small beach huts that are sometimes found at the seaside.

The milk churners on the left had great colour I expect in years gone by it had carried a lot off milk.I wasn't too sure what the pots on the right hand side were used for. They looked like a small tree and that it was growing more of them.

Unfortunately there were no small frogs or dragon flies but beautiful water lilies that reminded me of Claude Monet on the small pound.

The image on the left were broken cups that looked at first like an art sculpture on a plinth. This made me chuckle as it was very effective as an art piece. The bush unfortunately had no butterfly's but the colours looked great.

I can't remember the story behind this sculpture that my friend had made, only that she had seen a larger version on holiday and decieded to make one of her own. I at first thought it was a dove coop.

I like the design of the water pump there has always been something that has fascinated me about them. When walking to school I would pass one daily it is still there today with a basin at the bottom.

It wouldn't be a garden without a few flower images, not having green fingers I have no idea what they are I just liked the simplicity of them.

The top image reminds me of a stick man, I fell in love with this cast iron lamp its unusual to have one in a garden. This looked right at home and completed the look. While the bottom image reminded me of  the film Chronicles of Narnia where Mr Tumnus is first met.

It was a lovely sunny day I wanted to try and capture the sunlight through the leaves.

This wood image reminded me of a dogs head and a Chinese dragon.

I took this image of the wood as I liked the colour and lines.

Lastly these were so cool and lit up at night I joked that they looked like a runway and to be careful as she may awake to a plane in her garden.

Whatever garden you have its nice when people put there own stamp on it and make it theirs. Thank you to my friend for letting me explore and photograph her amazing garden.

The Chain Bridge LLangollen - 30.8. 2015

It had been 30 years since the Chain Bridge was last used before in was closed off to the public, due to needing repair. On May 28th 2015 the public came to see Eddie Butler, a presenter and rugby commentator officially open the bridge. 

It had been a long time since we had gone for a camera day out, I couldn't wait to walk over the bridge. Sue and Geraldine went exploring the area with cameras in hand. While I focused taking images of the bridge.

The image above is of The Chain Bridge Hotel where the bridge is situated in a beautiful area overlooking to the river Dee.

I had wanted to take the above image in sepia to give it the timely feel its history has.

The same image again taken from the Railway station side, this also shows part of the chain over the River Dee. The bridge has been rebuilt many times over the years it was first built in 1817 as a cheap transport crossing over the Dee River for coal, by Exuperius Pickering. It was in the 1870s that  Henry Robertson later rebuilt it followed by his son. 

Sir Henry Beyer Robertson in 1929 was able to reuse the old chain links as suspension cables and is responsible for how we see the bridge today.  

Apparently in 1818 a meeting in Ruabon with Pickering had taken place with French engineer Joseph - Michel Dutens. This led to Joseph surveying the bridge these detailed drawings were published a year later in his memoirs. They are also known to be the only plans existing of the original bridge.

I wanted to take these images to show how the chain is structured.

A river view of the middle of the Chain Bridge.

    The center structure which holds the chain.

Another view from the River Dee of the structure of the Chain Bridge which has only ever been a foot bridge.

The bridge is now part of the Pontcysllte World Heritage site, It will also allow tourists if they wish to plan a route either by steam train or horse drawn boat. There is also a beautiful walk back to llangollen down the canel path, not forgetting The Horse shoe falls just at the back of the Hotel to view just continue along the path past the Chain Bridge Hotel.

A view of kings Bridge crossing the River Dee, which was build in 1906 to commemorate the coronation of Edward V11. This meant that now horse and carts or the new invention of motorcars could cross.

The timely feel of sepia.

A view down river towards LLangollen from the bridge. 

I was lucky enough to be there at the time many were having fun.

I enjoy taking images of wood and seeing the different designs in the bark and colours.

The Hotel had lovely flowers by there entrance I couldn't resist taking images of them. I have know idea what there names are! 

There are information notice boards around to tell you about the history and walks near by.

                             For more imformation on the Chain Bridge or Hotel see below


https://www.hlf.org.uk/about-us/media-centre/press-releases/historic-llangollen-chain-bridge-re-opened-public-after-30

http://www.engineering-timelines.com/scripts/engineeringItem.asp?id=1409

         

https://www.chainbridgehotel.com/

Llangollen camera club at the fringe 2015 and other exhibitions

Exhibition in Oswestry 

 Dead men Walking 

Back in December 2014 I was lucky enough to be asked to Exhibit one of my images. Which was at the Visitor and Exhibition Centre to commemorate 100 years since World War 1. 

Christ Church Rossett

Co-ordinated by the Oswestry Coalition for Peace, Dead Men Talking features art and writings that focus on the effect war has on populations both physically and spiritually, and in particular the horror and futility of the 1914-18 Great War. 

http://www.bordercountiesadvertizer.co.uk/news/141827/new-art-exhibition.aspx

Fringe Festival 

Apologies to the club for the quality of my images, I found them a little hard to photograph without getting reflections.

Dawn Field

Skaters Paradise

Tranquility

Martin Phillips

The Old Dentists'

Apothecary

Deb Jackson 

Denbigh Hospital 1

Denbigh Hospital 3

Denbigh Hospital 2

Joan Sills

Reflections Inside My Eye

Inside Spaces On The Moon

Colin Jones

Jagged Edge

The Unused Boat

Rowenna Jones 

 Stadium

Room With A View

Ted Broadhurst

The Cellar

The Kiss

Clare Taylor

North Bridge

Sata

Ann Douglas

St Giles' Church 2

St Giles' Church 1

Will Hawks 

 Llangollen Vale

Nesting Great Tit 

John Goulden

Circuitry

Sharon Briscoe

Derelict greenhouse 1

Derelict greenhouse 2

Aperture Camera Club 

come and join us 

LLangollen photographic  club is attended by a small group of dedicated local photographers.

The group meets every 2nd Thursday in the month

7.30 pm - 9.30 pm

At the Rafa club,

Canalside Gardens,

      LLangollen.