Photomarathon 2014 – My entry no 370

1. Photomarathon 2014: Me, Myself and I? 2. Photomarathon 2014: Street level 3. Photomarathon 2014: Camouflage 4. Photomarathon 2014: Ten 5. Photomarathon 2014: We’re all in this together 6. Photomarathon 2014: Attention to detail 7. Photomarathon 2014: Control 8. Photomarathon 2014: Crossed wires 9. Photomarathon 2014: The dying of the light 10. Photomarathon 2014: Stacked […]

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CCFC – Tan and Ole – Another fine mess!?

Ole Gunner Solskjær has been unveiled as the new Cardiff City manager at The Cardiff City Stadium today. Taking on the characters of Stan and Ollie, aka Laurel and Hardy, it seemed obvious to recreate the famous duo with owner Vincent Tan and Ole Gunner Solskjær – I give you Tan and Ole! I’m sure […]

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PHOTOS – Cardiff Half Marathon 2013

Below are 300 photographs taken at the Cardiff Half Marathon 2013. Feel free to view, download and share. Starting at 9am outside Cardiff Castle the route made it’s way via Leckwith, Penarth Road, across the barrage, back through the city and then a loop of Roath Park Lake. Lentaknai Lengurisi from Kenya won the 13.1 […]

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PHOTOS – Cardiff Swica Carnival

The sun was beaming, the streets of Cardiff were brimming with Saturday shoppers and many weeks of preparation had gone into making this year’s Swica Carnival a total success. Deviating from it’s roots in Butetown this year the procession began from The Atrium and began it’s lengthy journey around the city centre via Churchill Way. […]

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WEATHER – Picture on the ITV News

A submission to the ITV Wales group on Flickr resulted in the my picture being selected and used on the ITV Weather forecasts in Wales throughout the day. A daffodil stood all alone on the Taff Embankment overlooking the River Taff and Millennium Stadium – the same day Cardiff City got promoted to the Premier […]

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Bristol Balloon Fiesta

Whilst the last Olympic events were taking place in London – a crowd of over 500,000 descended on Bristol’s Ashton Court for the 34th annual Bristol International Balloon Fiesta. The four day event began on Thursday 9th August and continued throughout the weekend to a grand finale on the Sunday. The Bristol International Balloon Fiesta […]

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GRAFFITI – Tributes to Whitney Houston

Back in February 2012 Whitney Houston was found unresponsive in suite 434 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, submerged in a bathtub. The cause of death was not immediately known but was later ruled by the coroner to have been an “accidental drowning” The news that the talented singer Whitney Houston had been […]

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OLYMPICS – Lego figures getting ready

To celebrate the Olympic Games 2012 coming to the UK and being held in London – Lego have released the latest in their line of Minifigures. There are a total of nine Team GB Lego minifigures to collect. These include a brawny boxer, a stealth swimmer, relay runner, judo fighter, tactical tennis player, flexible gymnast, […]

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OLYMPICS-Water tower gets a makeover

For more than 80 years the fantastic structure of a water tower has graced visitors arriving via rail to Cardiff Central Station and is one of first things that people see alongside The Millennium Stadium and the bus station! The 15m high Grade II listed brick structure was originally built in 1932 to replenish water […]

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PHOTOS-Queen’s Trooping of the colour

I was in London and the sun was shining so I thought a quick trip from my hotel in Victoria past Buckingham Palace to visit the delights of Shoreditch was in the offering (a post on THAT visit soon.) But stopping outside The Palace for a few quick shots and I realised that there was […]

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STREET ART-Robots Will Kill in New York

Most tourists opt for Manhattan and Staten Island whilst on a vacation to New York but on my American adventure I thought I’d break from tradition and opt to travel a bit further into the New York boroughs and investigate some of the great street art and grafitti available in these neighbourhoods. Starting off with […]

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CCFC-Bluebirds change to red kit

The full story of how Cardiff City football club have now changed from the traditional blue kit and Bluebird emblem to a red kit complete with new Dragon logo for the 2012/2013 season. Here’s how the drama unfolded over the last few weeks! After Cardiff City’s 2011-2012 Championship season had come to an end with […]

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PHOTOS-Wales Biggest Sticker Combo

I’m not entirely sure where to start with this post but it has become an ever increasing part of Cities around the World to not only include tagging, graffiti and amazing street art but also now the introduction of stickers too. It may seem a little mundane but when a lot of these stickers are […]

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CARDIFF- Foggy weather

Waking up early on St David’s Day to look out of the kitchen window and think ‘there’s a lot of condensation on the window’ so I wiped the window clear only to discover there was no condensation but infact on closer inspection it was some really bad fog outside! A quick walk into the City […]

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PHOTOS-Blaen y Glyn trip

It was Saturday the 4th February and the weather forecasters had predicted a band of warm air coming in from the West forcing the current cold air to push back – thus creating the first decent snowfall of 2012. As this snow wasn’t predicted to fall until late afternoon it seemed a great idea to […]

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