Anglesey This Morning (Porthwen - Old BrickWorks) (1 Viewer)

[ShiftZZ]

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[buttons]

Beats France in my mind. What were those old pressure vessels used for in there hay day.

 

[Jim]

Nice pics Dave. I like the brick building one, that would make a great B&W study

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[Jim]

This is the type of picture I like to play with for hours on long winter nights. I've just had a five minute play.

Here is your original, which I assume is straight from your camera.



Here it is after I tweaked the levels and sharpened it



And this would be the starting point for a black and white study



Nice:thumb:

 

[ShiftZZ]

Beats France in my mind. What were those old pressure vessels used for in there hay day.

They were for the firing of the bricks.
"Remains of an old brickworks on the coast of Anglesey visited last weekend. It was operated from 1850 to 1914, and there are three beehive kilns remaining. The clay was brought from the hilltop by aerial tramway, from a nearby quarry, and the finished bricks left by boat."

More info here..
http://www.penmorfa.com/porthwen/history.htm

Nice pics Dave. I like the brick building one, that would make a great B&W study

Indeed Jim, these were just quick snaps taken with my mobile (Samsung Galaxy II), I did take some more on the Canon, will look at them later. B & W should be interesting.

I may go back later on to pick some blackerries, WALL to WALL..

 

[pappajohn]

Here it is after I tweaked the levels and sharpened it


thats what puts me off photography.....technical terminology.

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[Jim]

Here it is after I tweaked the levels and sharpened it


thats what puts me off photography.....technical terminology.

It's a lot easier now, than the 20 years I had a darkroom.

Sharpening is explained here http://www.digital-photo-secrets.com/tip/1485/why-does-sharpening-help-what-does-it-do/

And this video should explain what levels are

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWYo9AQDwmM"]Levels in Photoshop explained - YouTube[/ame]

 

[ShiftZZ]

Here it is after I tweaked the levels and sharpened it


thats what puts me off photography.....technical terminology.

Sort of John, I took loads of pics in RAW format and they are huge, sometimes I get it wrong and sometimes they look better in Black and White.

I dont think of it as pure photography, otherwise some / al of my pics would be boring. I admit I may crop, change some settings and do some HDR, but I do it so that its pleaseing to the eye.

This was one I changed to B & W

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[old-mo]

Nice photo`s Dave... :thumb:

Sorry we couldn`t join you...:Sad: Don't put too many on... otherwise it wont be worth me going...

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[ShiftZZ]

Jim

All the 1st ones are just as they were taken by my mobile phone, all untouched.
The spiders web one is just changed from colour to B & W.

 

[pappajohn]

bloody hell Dave, that web must be massive.

i cant read the text on my kindle as the pic has resized my screen. :Sad:

 

[pappajohn]

It's a lot easier now, than the 20 years I had a darkroom.

Sharpening is explained here http://www.digital-photo-secrets.com/tip/1485/why-does-sharpening-help-what-does-it-do/

And this video should explain what levels are

Levels in Photoshop explained - YouTube

Jim, my dear boy....i was taking the pi$$ oh:

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[Jim]

John me ole son, I was too

 

[teddybard]

Nice Photos Shifty
Good Photoshopping Jim

Roger

 

[Chris]

Some clever people on here:thumb:

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[Carol]

Go on tell me Anglesey is not worth. Visit.

 

[ShiftZZ]

Go on tell me Anglesey is not worth. Visit.

Born here...

This is a place I have not been to in over 45 years and its so dangerous to get down to...


Yes its a great place, but its just too close to home... I hope that makes some sense..

 

[Carol]

Dave I was not saying it to you I know that's it your home land, was meaning the lovely pictures and yet some dismiss visiting Anglesey without going there, I love visiting the Island.

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[chrisgreen]

Beats France in my mind. What were those old pressure vessels used for in there hay day.

the pressure vessels as you call them,are in fact the boilers as most if not all of the equipment was powered by steam:thumb:
all the bricks were hand made in them days and loaded into the kilns by hand, a worker was expected to make up to 2000 bricks per day,the kilns and the boilers were fired with coal all fed by hand with a shovel and a strong back
i worked in a brickworks but only as contractor rebuilding the kilns:thumb:

 

[chrisgreen]

just looked at google maps to see where Anglsey is and realized i have driven across the island to catch a ferry to Irelandoh::Blush:

 

[johnp10]

Great pics.
Lovely place.:thumb:

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[ShiftZZ]

Great pics.
Lovely place.:thumb:

Indeed, but its changing, too many wind turbines, and another Nuclear power station on the way. Not enough work and one of the poorest parts of the UK.

At £396, the median weekly pay for full-time workers in Isle of Anglesey is around £19 less than the Welsh median.
The median house price in 2006 was around £148,000. This was £15,500 more than the Welsh media.

The Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2005 ranks specific small areas in Wales in terms of deprivation: 2% of Isle of Anglesey’s areas fall in the 10% most deprived areas in Wales, but the majority of its areas are more deprived than the Wales average.


No A & E Hospital on the Island. Urgent cases taken to Liverpool Manchester or Crewe.
No Cinema within 30 miles,
No mainline railway station (Holyhead not on Anglesey)


Yes it has its good points, but its in desperate need of help. The short summer tourist season is not enough.

 

[buttons]

While on the subject of S2 pictures here are a couple I took in Majorca a couple of weeks ago.

 

[Chris]

While on the subject of S2 pictures here are a couple I took in Majorca a couple of weeks ago.

I like those Buttons. Signs of a mini lunchtime drinking session:thumb:

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[maxsdad]

brick works

When we moved to Anglesey about 9yrs ago this brickworks came up for sale, included was a large farm house and detached cottage, both needing renovation, the brickworks, a small island which I think is called Middle Mouse and about 40 acres of head land/scrub land price if I remember correctly £500k.
It was sold within days and shortly after reappeared on the market with more land for £800k looked as if one of the neighbours was the original buyer.
Beautiful place though at anytime of year the Anglesey coastal path must be one of the most interesting and diverse coastal walks in the UK.