"a really cool old castle in Wales"

[sandeha]

Carreg Cennen Castle is a bleak old place on a rocky limestone bluff in the middle of a broad valley.  13th century in origin, it was torn down in the 15th to discourage squatters (brigands) from staying there.  It can look very pretty, but on a dark and freezing spring day in the grip of a NE wind, it's a rough spot.



The Welta Weltini held up well, though the film was some wayoutadate Neopan 1600 exposed at 800.  Suitably gritty for the weather.

The first shots were also long past sell-by (2001), VPS160, in a 6x9 Bessa (Skopar) and a 6x8 Ensign box camera (Pieceo'glass).

           


And again the Weltini
           

With flash underground
           

The locals are cute ...

[connealy]

What a great place to be able to wander around in.  We had a Welsh pony a lot like that one when we lived in Idaho; certainly a good fit with the neighborhood.

[jtzordon]

Amazing place!

[Scott]

Someday I'm gonna talk the wife into a tour of the UK and that whole neck o' the woods, and get to see first hand the cool things you guys are always posting.  What history you've got there...

[Glenn Thoreson]

Love those underground shots! The first shot is very mysterious and foreboding. Surely of interest to our spook hunting crew. I wish I could remember the name of the castle I told you about. The pony is a really nice shot, but it needs more spooks.

[Gene M]

Inspiring. Thank you.

[sandeha]

What history you've got there...

I get to appreciate the history a lot more by posting here.  And there's that old truth about the viewfinder teaching you how to look.

[lesged]

Those ruins have a spooky quality, but I love em.

I learned at an early age about moors from reading stories about Sherlock Holmes. Now, the thought comes to me, did the Moors ever reach any UK moors?

[sandeha]

One comes from Middle English - and the other from a Greek/Italian word for black. (You know that!)

[Dean Williams]

Oh! I wanna go there!  Thanks Sandeha.

[Madrigal]

Oh! I wanna go there!  Thanks Sandeha.

Me, too!

Sandeha- thank you for enduring the weather to take those shots for us
Inspiring, indeed.

What a place. I could spend way too much time in a place like that.

[CeriEvans]

I've only ever visited Carreg Cenen once, it was on a school trip and it was - inevitably - raining and I'd outgrown my cagool... rather a grim day. I keep meaning to go back but whenever I return home these days photographing Gower  seems to take up all my holiday.

[Philip]

Beautiful and awesome (in the old sense . . . well, in the new sense, too). And it looks like you had the site to yourself that day.

[sandeha]

And it looks like you had the site to yourself that day.

There were a few other brave folk.  One guy almost got left behind in the stocks.





Ceri, give us a shout next time you're passing.

[Dennis Gallus]

Sandeha,

The bride and I are on holiday and we almost missed these.  Glad that we connected, your castle pictures (and the Welsh pony) are terrific and again compel us to return to Wales for a visit.

Dennis