A clear sky in the evening of a lovely April day in 2026 gave me the opportunity of filming this new crescent moon from the relative comfort of my front drive.
As the moon sank towards the horizon, and the sky slowly darkened as twilight faded, the earthshine, that light reflected onto the moon's unlit surface from our planet, became more and more pronounced.
...Read moreA lovely day in early spring, and with a bit of hard-earned free time, my wife Liz and I decided on a tour of one of our favourite North Wales places, the beautiful Isle of Anglesey.
We spent almost the whole day driving right around the island, stopping at various beauty spots along the way and dropping into a couple of cafés for some much needed refreshment.
...Read moreA lovely evening spent with friends at Dinas Dinlle on the north Wales coast drew to a close with the sun dipping down over the Irish Sea, lighting up the shapely mountains along the Llyn Peninsula as a bank of clouds played in the skies over the peaks.
And I was on the beach in the warm summer breeze, enfolded in the sights, sounds and smells of the foreshore as the light of day slowly faded from the scene, with the tips of the mountains the last to relinquish the golden light of sunset.
...Read moreAnother lovely summer's evening on the north Wales coast.
And after a day spent exploring the beauties of the Snowdonia (now called Eryri) National Park, where else would you want to be to watch the sunset but on the West Shore beach at Llandudno?
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