Thursday, December 29, 2005

Winter Wonderland And St Fagans

Just about feeling nice and relaxed and on holiday now. The horrid stuff's out of the way, the dreary gray embrace of January beckons and 2006 should be an interesting year to say the least. More on that when it happens.

In the meantime, had a chance to sort some of the images out that have been sitting in my 'to sort' folder. The first few are from Christmas Eve, when we took Elis to the Winter Wonderland by Cardiff's City Hall. Needless to say, he loved it. For once I actually did some tinkering with those photos - levels and saturation wise.

The next lot are from a couple of trips to St Fagans, one at the end of November and the other from yesterday. Frost, long shadows and the usual suspects capture the attention. As ever, hover for more detail.

The little wheel at the Winter Wonderland in Cardiff

Elis whizzes past on the little wheel at the Winter Wonderland in Cardiff

The big wheel at the Winter Wonderland in Cardiff

The Carousel and Helter Skelter at Cardiff's Winter Wonderland

Slate building from North Wales at St Fagans, The Museum of Welsh Life, Cardiff

The entrance to the Celtic village at St Fagans - The skulls were picked up off the streets of Ely...

Frosted furrows looking across to the old chapel

Dim sunlit and shadows on the whitewashed wall outside the Red House...

Trees and shadows, and doth I spy a Pinhead?

Stripy shadows on the side of the old Watermill at St Fagans

One of the pigs enjoys the weak sun and scratchy fence

Posted by Dio Bach at 23:40

3 Comments:

Elise Tomlinson said...: I love this batch of photos...great shadows and mood, I especially love the piggy!; 10:46 PM
holly said...: Oooooo!! Do tell the: what's the deal with the roundhouse with skulls on the gate?
Is the massive pile of pikes for a vampire infestation? I too love the piggy--except I initially thought it was a really messed up cat.; 2:46 AM
Dio Bach said...: LOL - The skulls look plastic close up - there's actually a tiny reconstructed Celtic camp with roundhouses at St Fagans, complete with internal furnishings and decorations. You'd have to ask the Celts why they insisted on the skulls. Maybe they saw it on Changing Room or something?; 10:36 PM