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Brecon Beacons: Mountain and Sky
Mike de Sousa, Director, AbleStable

Impressive landscape photography is as much about good fortune as sound technique, a fine camera, and a good eye. Like any creative activity, you must become an extension of the medium to achieve any success with it. Last year I took a lightweight digital camera to my trip to Brecon Beacons. This year I returned with my family and a mid-range Nikon which far better captured the spirit of the landscape of South East Wales.

A Pale Reflection

Despite being pleased with some of the photos I took, the difference between my visual experience and the captured image remains as a gaping chasm. No doubt this was in part due to my lack of camera technique, but it was also as a result of the comparative low performance of the image as recorded within the digital realm. The eye continues to view the subject in far more detail and depth.

Close to the Sky

When I look at the images that follow I remember when I, together with my family, witnessed the grandeur of a hail-laden cloud rushing across the ridge at Pen Y Fan, when climbing Sugar Loaf Mountain at dawn, the blue haze of layered distant hills stretching out far towards the English boarders, and where with every step the flow of billowing cloud keeps one company with its soft, ever changing luscious form.

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