Happy New Year to everyone, and the first post of 2021, an archive image from a couple of years ago that I haven't shared on here.

Barmouth Railway Bridge in Snowdownia which spans over 800 meters across the Afon Mawddach Estuary.

Some seriously dramatic weather this day in the midst of a storm one moment, then broken sunlight, then a bit more storm and repeat. I had to wait for the bridge to be lit up while it wasn't raining, which eventually happened, and thankfully the sky was suitably dramatic at the same time. I'd always wanted to walk over this bridge since I first went over it by rail in 1988, I finally got to do it this day.

I couldn't decide about including the yacht in the compostion at the time but the more I look at it I like it in there.

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"Ces jours qui te semblent vides
Et perdus pour l’univers
Ont des racŸines avides
Qui travaillent les déserts.
La substance chevelue
Par les ténèbres élue
Ne peut s’arrêter jamais
Jusqu’aux entrailles du monde,
De poursuivre l’eau profonde
Que demandent les sommets.

Patience, patience,
Patience dans l’azur!
Chaque atome de silence
Est la chance d’un fruit mûr!
Viendra l’heureuse surprise:
Une colombe, la brise,
L’ébranlement le plus doux
(..) "

Paul Valéry poète français (1871-1945) in "Charmes"

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(©own work from a photo taken in 2018)

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Lübeck, Germany, 2021

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