‘Out of Office’ - Hello, we’re away on an extended 'Frank-Fest' (frequent rain is forecast - and inevitable). We will be unable to provide any feedback until after we return at the end of the month. Please carry on having fun in our absence - and stay safe… P&K
In the meantime, a selection of images from our recent visit to Porthmadog, Gwynedd, Wales.
(Shot raw and processed using: DxO PL Elite/ Nik Collection and Adobe LrC/ PS with Tony Kuyper Panels).
Phil and Karen
1. Locomotive ‘James Spooner’, built in 2023. James Spooner was the surveyor and civil engineer responsible for building the Ffestiniog Railway in the 1830’s.
2. The first ‘James Spooner' was built in 1872, but this was scrapped in the 1930s. The present locomotive is a Double Fairlie, built at the Ffestiniog Railway’s Boston Lodge Works.
3. Locomotive ‘David Lloyd George’, built in 1992. Named after Prime Minister and Liberal Caernarfon MP David Lloyd George, who grew up locally and travelled on the Ffestiniog when practising as a solicitor. Also built at the Boston Lodge Works, it carried the Commonwealth Games torch in 2002 and the Olympic torch in 2012.
4. Locomotive ‘Linda’, built in 1893. Named after the daughter of Penrhyn Quarry owner Lord Penrhyn, 'Linda' is known as one of the 'Penrhyn Ladies', along with her sister 'Blanche'.
5. Locomotive ‘Blanche’, also built in 1893. ‘Blanche' was named after the wife of Lord Penrhyn. She arrived on the Ffestiniog Railway a year after 'Linda'. The ‘Penrhyn Ladies’ kept Ffestiniog Railway trains running from the 1960’s to the 1990’s.
6. The view towards the snow dusted summit of Mount Snowdon (just visible left). With an elevation of 1,085 m Snowdon is the highest mountain in Wales and England.
(Source:
Festrail.co.uk).
Heat waves in air are ruining image quality. Ala images are soft and blurred. I think that now i have to go before sunrise to get better images . Here are shots of crab spider eating poor bee, black winged stilt, european goldfinch and male western marsh harrier.
