New year, new blog

Ok, this is a blog to force me to take more photographs. It was supposed to be a new year thing and I'd start off 2011 a new man, a hardworking man, a committed man...... That obviously fell by the wayside as it's now the 20th Jan so I'm already nearly 3 weeks late in getting this project off the ground. Hopefully this isn't a sign of thing to come.

Anyway here are a couple of photos I took in the last day or so. Ideally I'll be updating this blog with new pictures at least every fortnight. So here goes:

This first one I actually took today I thought I'd go down to the beach and try and get some long exposures of the waves around rocks in the bay but it was just too sunny even with my aperture stopped all the way down. Still I think I got a couple of nice ones this being one. For those interested this was shot at ISO 200, 18 mm, f/7.1, 1/800 sec.

Southerndown Beach nr Cardiff

This next one was taken a couple of days ago at some waterfalls in Mid Wales. It's a great place to shoot but you and your equipment tends to get drenched from the spray so not really a place to take top of the line gear. Stats: ISO 200, 55 mm, f/16, 0.6 sec

Nant Llech River

Finally this was taken at the same place as the river shot above, I wanted to get a close up of the water beading on the mosses with my lovely new Nikon 50 mm f/1.4. It's a stunning lens and produces such sharp images. If you're interested: ISO 200, 55 mm, f/5.6, 1/250 sec

Moss covered rock near Henrhyd Falls in Mid Wales