Blaenau Ffestiniog

Snowdonia – a week of grey skies and mists and just two days of lovely sunshine – watching the dawn from the skylight window looking over the hills to the north east. The ‘mist’ in the valley in the foreground is really just the vapour from the condensing boiler but I thought it added something good to that dark space.

Sunrise at Ffestiniog

Looking away to the north west, just visible – a flock of white birds chasing away the black birds.

Angry Birds at Dawn

Back again to the north east the sun finally lighting up all the details of the valleys and trees through the mist.

Misty sunrise at Ffestiniog

Colour – Red

A week in North Wales – grey and misty weather but red seems to appear in almost all of my photographs.

Melin Pant-yr-Ynn, Blaenau Ffestiniog

Red window at Melin Pant-yr-Ynn, Blaenau Ffestiniog

The water wheel in motion

Waterwheel turning at Melin Pant-yr-Ynn, Blaenau Ffestiniog

Sunrise over Manod Mawr near Ffestiniog, Gwynedd

Sunrise at Ffestiniog

The Japanese Pagoda in Portmerion

Red painted Japanese Pagoda at Portmerion

Slate gate posts and red-painted iron gate in Blaenau Ffestiniog.

Red iron gate at Blaenau Ffestiniog

Reminded me of a similarly grey day in December in Northumberland on the quayside at Amble Harbour

Red buoys at Amble Harbour

And this lovely old door – maybe it was really red long ago

Red painted door in Warkworth