Day trip to Manchester and Anglesey

So after 2 days of listing arts and crafts stuffs on eBay for my sister, Chris joined me in Cheadle and we went for a day out. At first we headed to Bramhall park, which has an Edwardian style hall (that was sadly closed that day). Wandering around we took a couple of shots, I was so busy using my new (old) Zeiss that I didn't take anything with my DSLR while I was there.

After the park, we headed on the Quarry Bank Mill, somewhere I've visited years ago. There I took some shots with both my Zeiss and Canon, firstly of one of the machines used to make material and then of the mill itself from the outside.

Today we ventured out to Anglesey, to a place called Ty Croes where we climbed down onto some rocks right next to the sea. Being by the sea is one of my favourite things to do, I love the sound of the lapping water and experimenting with my Zeiss and Canon got some excellent shots.

After receiving the summer work from uni, we've been working to get the landscapes done. Chris is a much more experienced landscape photographer than me, and knows lots of places to take decent shots. I've learned a lot about landscape photography under his instruction!

After Ty Croes, we headed over to a wind farm above Llanrwst. I've only ever been that close to a wind turbine on a coach in Norway years ago. It was a little scary being so close to them, they make a lot of noise which I wasn't expecting, and we estimated the blades must have been turning in excess of 90mph. But they made for great pictures, and the sky was quite dramatic which helped.
Finally we headed to a viewpoint not far from the wind farm, it was a gorgeous place, and the view was stunning. The tall mountain you can see in the distance is Moel Siabod.

So it has been another few days of photography, it's nice to have someone to photograph with.

More soon :)