A Welsh Adventure

A bit of an adventure on Friday night saw an impromptu trip to Anglesey to photography the Milky Way over Eglwys Cwyfan (St Cwyfan's (Church in the Sea)) and then on to Bryn Celli Ddu Burial Chamber and then on to Penmon Lighthouse for sunrise on the Saturday morning.

The adventure started at 17:00 on the Friday with a challenging drive and race against time to get to the Church before sunset, unfortunately road delays and frustrations of the British road network meant we didn't get to Eglwys Cwyfan until gone 9pm and had missed both the high tide and sunset 🙁 - I was also plagued with technical difficulties with the camera and lenses (see my gold contacts thread) So the shots taken were at best guess with focus and composition and lens distance scale

At around 01:00 we moved on to Bryn Celli Ddu, which was just awesome, such a magnificent location, although nearby security lights from the Farm either helped or hindered the images to be captured, depends on your perception I suppose. We again managed to capture the Milky Way and some Aurora activity, by 5am we were set-up and waiting for the sunrise to break at Penmon Lighthouse.

The sunrise was actually one of the best ones I have experienced this year (yet to process the images captured) made only better by cooking up on the camping stove a couple packs of smoked bacon. A loaf of bread later we set off for home, getting back at 13:00 and straight to bed for an 18 hour sleep! - Thankfully no lens caps were lost in the making of the images.

Location1 - Eglwys Cwyfan



Location 2 - Bryn Celli Ddu Burial Chamber



Regards
Geoff

Thank you, was worth the effort for sure, even feeling zonked for a few days after hasn't dampened my spirits for the next adventure

I'd be happy with the wind and rain too! - I argue with folk that landscape photographers (i am one) are really weather photographers (im this too), but like an owners club people get precious about a title i have found. - regards the Llŷn Peninsula, its right on the edge of a night out morning back adventure for me, but I have previously looked at this area of Wales, trying to tie in a bank holiday for the a long weekend and this area of the world, i'm sure at some point it will come good.

thank you and will try

Thank you Paul. - hrrrm video, I really enjoy video creation and creating content for youtube on my photography.... but im struggling to push the record button, not sure why, just lacking motivation, inspiration, energy for it.... So no video on this occasion, I hope the funk breaks!

I was happy with the wind and rain! See my post about it...

I took all my deep sky photography kit with me..... so crap weather was not what i wanted!