This image shows two versions of the same photograph. On the left is the straight-out-of-camera colour JPEG. It has a soft and dreamy feel to it. On the right is my black-and-white edit of the RAW image. It has a harsher, more stark feel to it. The image is taken from the blocked road that leads up to the now-abandoned Lower Neuadd Reservoir. A wire fence that runs along the road can just be made out in the bottom right corner. In the distance rises Pen-y-fan, the tallest mountain in the Brecon Beacons. The photo is taken facing north, and captures the much rarer-seen southern and eastern slopes. From the peak, a well-travelled path picks its way down the eastern slope until it disappears stage right.

The Eastern Path Down Pen-y-Fan.

#SOOC JPEG on the left, my #BlackAndWhitePhotography treatment on the right.

Which do you prefer?

#Photography #Fujifilm #HX2 #MostHatedLens #Wales #Powys #BannauBrycheiniog #LandscapePhotography

This photo shows the distinctive peak of Pen-y-fan (tallest mountain in the Brecon Beacons), peaking through a gap in a row of (I believe?) Scots Pine trees. Just behind the trees, from left to right, runs the retaining wall of Upper Neuadd Reservoir.

Pen-y-fan, lurking beyond the dam retaining wall at Upper Neuadd Reservoir.

#photography #LandscapePhotography #SOOC #Fujifilm #Wales #Powys #MostHatedLens

This is a photo taken from Pen-y-fan (highest mountain in the Brecon Beacons), looking south towards the drained (and totally not abandoned, honest!) Upper Neuadd Reservoir. In the foreground, a stream has cut a channel that runs through the middle of the frame and into the distance towards the upper right quadrant of the image. There, two rows of trees seemingly form two sides of a square. In front of the trees, cloaked in shadow, is the retaining wall of Upper Neuadd Reservoir. This reservoir was drained by the local water company some years ago now.

Wondering what that valley looks like from the top of Pen-y-fan? Here you go 🙂

I took the previous shot where those two rows of trees meet, in the upper right quadrant of this photo.

#Photography #LandscapePhotography #Fujifulm #Wales #Powys #BannauBrycheiniog #Neuadd #MostHatedLens

This is a photo of the eastern side of Craig-Gwaun-Taf ridge and the sound side of Pen-y-Fan, the highest mountain in the Brecon Beacons. This photo is taken from the dried-out bed of Upper Neuadd Reservoir, an old Victorian reservoir that Welsh Water has drained and left somewhat abandoned.

I'm lucky enough to live in a very beautiful place.

#photography #LandscapePhotography #Wales #Powys #BannauBrycheiniog #Neuadd #Pen-y-fan #Fujifilm #MostHatedLens