The Pontsticill reservoir 'Plug hole' with water just about overflowing on a grey and misty morning a couple of days ago. Ponsticill is a large reservoir on the river Taf Fechan lying partly in the county of Powys and partly within the county borough of Merthyr Tydfil in south Wales. It lies within the Brecon Beacons National Park and Fforest Fawr Geopark. For those of you who are interested in this sort of thing the reservoir dam is a 110 ft high embankment has, since its completion in 1927, been holding back 15,400 megalitres of water for supply to industry and population of south Wales.
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Loch Stack is a lonely and wild place in the far north west of Scotland. A windy single track road goes past it, and this accessibility makes it rightly popular with photographers. In many cases you will see this view across Loch Stack to the great Quartzite lump that is Arkle, with a boarded up shed in the foreground. I have a few of those shots too, but decided that I liked the fleeting light on the little Birch trees that dot the boggy shoreline.
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The Radnor hills are not the most eyecatching - just over two thousand feet high, flat topped, boggy, windswept. The most exciting thing that goes on in these parts is hidden away in the deep Harley Dingle valley where there is a test firing range, and they do have very efficient security people that shoo you away from the perimeter fence high up on the hills.
...But tucked away out of sight in a secluded side valley is this quite delightful cascade with its colourful name 'Water breaks its neck'. For some reason the light is often good, and it shows off the deep green and yellows of the moss that grows on the tree trunks and the the rocks. The two biggest tree trunks have been there for ages, but a third smaller one has appeared since I was last here. A lovely spot to while away an hour or two. I should have added these falls are roughly 10 metres high, 35-40 feet.
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Some deep archive mining this week! This is Pumo Ri, a mountain on the Nepal China border as seen from Kala Pathar - a somewhat easier lump. Pumo Ri is sometimes called the daughter of Everest, the name actually means the 'Mountain daughter' and is 7161 metres (23,495 ft) high. It is 5 miles to the west of Everest, on the other side of the valley across the Khumbu glacier. Kala Patthar is an outlier of Pumo Ri, a mere 5644 metres (18519 ft) high, a black rubbly hill that is climbed from the settlement of Gorakshep to give the most amazing views of Pumo Ri and of the Everest Group of mountains. It would be fair to say this was a trip of a lifetime
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A cold and windy morning on Herefordshire Beacon, but the early light was rather good.
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