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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CARDIFF-Castle Quarter in a tilt-shift miniature version!

Tilt-shift is a technique that creates pictures of real-life scenes that are manipulated to look like model photographs. It’s quite hard to explain – but once you see them it’s like looking down at your toy soldiers and cars as a kid. By changing the colours, contrast, blur, depth of view and the speed you […]

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CARDIFF-Lorry gets stuck under railway bridge

An articulated lorry got stuck under a railway bridge at the top end of Bute Street yesterday. Around 2:30pm the lorry, laiden with mattresses, approached the 14ft 9 bridge and attempted to pass under but obviously got stuck. No major structural problems have been reported about the bridge and roads were re-opened after an hour […]

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Excavation begins in the River Taff

Excavation works began in earnest on the River Taff, where it flows under Canton Bridge, in the City Centre of Cardiff this week. The work is being carried out to deepen the river to allow safe passage of larger vessels which serve the network of stops from Cardiff Bay and Penarth – which stop as […]

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PHOTOS-Graffiti in Newport

A quick trek to Newport to check out the emerging graffiti and stencil scene near the City Centre area. Firstly some stencils checking out the Ryder Cup which took place at The Celtic Manor site earlier in the year. Featuring some other random tags and stencils from around the dual carriageways. But my favourite was […]

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