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Title: Sunrise from Pen-Y-Fan
Post by: greasemonkey on July 20, 2013, 09:28:09 PM
Finally achieved something I've been wanting to do for sometime.
After a few failures, I've caught the sunrise from the top of Pen-Y-Fan.
Handsomely rewarded for getting out of bed at 2AM, an hours drive, and a hard two hour walk.
Anyone suffering from the heat, this was the place to be. Nice warm walk up, but on the top it was freezing cold.
(http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/i323/greasemonkey3/P7200123_zps839f8062.jpg) (http://s1088.photobucket.com/user/greasemonkey3/media/P7200123_zps839f8062.jpg.html)

(http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/i323/greasemonkey3/P7200122_zps65b6f2f7.jpg) (http://s1088.photobucket.com/user/greasemonkey3/media/P7200122_zps65b6f2f7.jpg.html)
(http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/i323/greasemonkey3/P7200129_zps502b9a0b.jpg) (http://s1088.photobucket.com/user/greasemonkey3/media/P7200129_zps502b9a0b.jpg.html)
(http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/i323/greasemonkey3/P7200092_zpsb10466e6.jpg) (http://s1088.photobucket.com/user/greasemonkey3/media/P7200092_zpsb10466e6.jpg.html)


Title: Re: Sunrise from Pen-Y-Fan
Post by: K.H on July 20, 2013, 09:33:52 PM
They are some very good pics, i expect to see them on the Countryfile calendar  :)
Title: Re: Sunrise from Pen-Y-Fan
Post by: greasemonkey on July 20, 2013, 09:38:11 PM
I took 60 pics. Great things, digital cameras.
Most are not very good, some have meaning only to me, and wouldn't look great to anyone else.
Seven or eight of them are outstanding, I'm not putting them on the 'net, in case someone swipes them and sells them.
Title: Re: Sunrise from Pen-Y-Fan
Post by: Rotary-Motion on July 20, 2013, 09:48:07 PM
thats quite amazing what you did, awesome pics dude...

the peace there must of been heaven on earth... a place to seek solice...

crackin.

 ;)
Title: Re: Sunrise from Pen-Y-Fan
Post by: greasemonkey on July 20, 2013, 09:54:09 PM
There was a few others up there. A group of five or six local twenty somethings, and four 60 somethings. I even met a group coming down before the sunrise. Can't understand why the didn't wait for it.

Nice place to be though, very dramatic with the clouds. At times it the cloud was like thick smoke blowing over the edge of the summit.
Title: Re: Sunrise from Pen-Y-Fan
Post by: julianf on July 20, 2013, 09:55:53 PM
Seven or eight of them are outstanding, I'm not putting them on the 'net, in case someone swipes them and sells them.

What's that site called again?  Snaptwat or somthing?

; )
Title: Re: Sunrise from Pen-Y-Fan
Post by: greasemonkey on July 20, 2013, 09:59:24 PM
Seven or eight of them are outstanding, I'm not putting them on the 'net, in case someone swipes them and sells them.

What's that site called again?  Snaptwat or somthing?

; )

Ha ha. The group of young 'uns was taking pictures and sticking them on snapchat from their phones.
Title: Re: Sunrise from Pen-Y-Fan
Post by: Jamesrl on July 20, 2013, 11:11:18 PM
How do tell if it's sunrise or sunset and you're pulling our toggers.

You naughty boy.
Title: Re: Sunrise from Pen-Y-Fan
Post by: Rotary-Motion on July 20, 2013, 11:14:59 PM
How do tell if it's sunrise or sunset and you're pulling our toggers.

You naughty boy.

thats the james we all know and love...

 8)
Title: Re: Sunrise from Pen-Y-Fan
Post by: greasemonkey on July 21, 2013, 12:37:46 AM
How do tell if it's sunrise or sunset and you're pulling our toggers.

You naughty boy.

Just by chance, the proof is in the third pic.
Can you work out how?  8)
Title: Re: Sunrise from Pen-Y-Fan
Post by: K.H on July 21, 2013, 08:24:32 AM
The stone in the foreground?
Title: Re: Sunrise from Pen-Y-Fan
Post by: Tony on July 21, 2013, 10:37:16 AM
We all know the sun doesn't rise in Jim's world, its just permanently gloomy   ;D

Great pics GM. Looks well worth the walk.
Title: Re: Sunrise from Pen-Y-Fan
Post by: greasemonkey on July 21, 2013, 01:56:08 PM
The stone in the foreground?

Yup, that's the stone pile and height marker on the top. looking past it at that angle, you are always going to be looking East..............
Title: Re: Sunrise from Pen-Y-Fan
Post by: photoman290 on July 21, 2013, 02:09:06 PM
you can tell it is dawn also due to the fact that that sort of cloud and mist formation is unlikely to occur at dusk when has the the land is hot. i have seen the same sort of mist at  dawn around central wales as well. very nice pics.
 hope you spent some time  not looking at it  though a viewfinder. was at a fair yesterday and a lot of people were so busy looking at the procession though their phones they missed the  reality of it. maybe it is just me  but thinking what something will look like on there facebook page is more important than actually  being there.
Title: Re: Sunrise from Pen-Y-Fan
Post by: greasemonkey on July 21, 2013, 02:25:30 PM
I find that too. One of the reasons I haven't got a huge amount of photos of things is that I feel I'm missing something when I'm taking the photo. On the other hand, when I do get good photos, I feel I should take more.
I used to take loads of photos of drag racing, and miss half the action, so I stopped. Now,I've seen that much of it, that I'm back to taking photos again, just for the thrill of getting a good one, in amongst the loads of worthless ones.
Title: Re: Sunrise from Pen-Y-Fan
Post by: Jamesrl on July 21, 2013, 02:34:09 PM
Yup, that's the stone pile and height marker on the top. looking past it at that angle, you are always going to be looking East..............

But we have to take your word for it, it could still be Sunset.

Go round the other side of the stones and you're looking West.

As for morning mist, the picture could easily have been taken above the cloud.
Title: Re: Sunrise from Pen-Y-Fan
Post by: Jamesrl on July 21, 2013, 02:39:30 PM
We all know the sun doesn't rise in Jim's world, its just permanently gloomy   ;D

Ah yeah but the Sun shines out of my arse for benefit of others.
Title: Re: Sunrise from Pen-Y-Fan
Post by: greasemonkey on July 21, 2013, 02:44:58 PM
'Eel be sticking a link on the David Icke forum next, and getting the tin foil hat brigade to study the jet trails in the sky to prove what time the photos were taken.  ;D ;D
Title: Re: Sunrise from Pen-Y-Fan
Post by: Jamesrl on July 21, 2013, 04:36:05 PM
'Eel be sticking a link on the David Icke forum next, and getting the tin foil hat brigade to study the jet trails in the sky to prove what time the photos were taken.  ;D ;D

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm!  You'll try to convince me the new blue is black next.
Title: Re: Sunrise from Pen-Y-Fan
Post by: Tony on July 21, 2013, 11:55:17 PM
We all know the sun doesn't rise in Jim's world, its just permanently gloomy   ;D

Ah yeah but the Sun shines out of my arse for benefit of others.

I'm still admiring the sunshine reflecting off that venturi, bloody marvellous bit of kit!

Would love to fit it but the missus has insisted that a kitchen refit is in order, on the lookout for a second hand kitchen now!
Title: Re: Sunrise from Pen-Y-Fan
Post by: Jamesrl on July 22, 2013, 12:32:20 AM

I'm still admiring the sunshine reflecting off that venturi, bloody marvellous bit of kit!

Would love to fit it but the missus has insisted that a kitchen refit is in order, on the lookout for a second hand kitchen now!

You can't fit one if you ain't got one so get out to the shed and screw that venturi in.