Can you remember where you were on the day of the Queen’s funeral? A question that could be asked in years to come.
Certainly up until mid-afternoon on that day (Monday 19th September 2022), we were watching it on TV from our holiday cottage in North Wales.
Once the nation and us had paid our respects and watched history in the making, we thought we’d better get outside for some fresh air.
Since this was the start of our holiday, and it was now late afternoon, we decided to head out to somewhere nearby.
The maps and books told us Trefor looked somewhere scenic and within easy reach of our accommodation so that’s where we ended up.
Trefor is in the north west corner of the Llŷn peninsula overlooked by the Yr Eifl mountain range. It was once a thriving port, shipping granite from the nearby quarry.
On first sight, it seemed a small beach with mini harbour. Wandering around, I started shooting the beach and hills in the background.
I also shot two people milling around on their paddle boards.
A man pointed out a bird camouflaged in the shingle which turned out to be a collared dove. I tried to grab a shot but it wasn’t anything worth sharing.
We walked up closer to the harbour wall and I got a shot of the staircase below. I liked the different shapes and textures of this shot.
There were a few scenes involving the moored up boats. I quite liked the boat below as the reflection of its name was quite prominently reflected in the water?
I hadn’t realised at the time, but this is the same boat that features in the Fotovue book Photographing North Wales (page 152 if you have it).
Walking up past the beach and harbour, I liked this scene of a derelict caravan with the granite quarry on the hill in the background with some golden early evening sunlight.
As we walked up the National Trust path towards what we knew from the book would be sea stacks, I looked round to grab this nice scene, again enhanced by the early evening sunlight shining on the hills.
If you zoom in, you can see someone walking down the path that gives a sense of scale to the scene.
As we walked along the top of the cliffs, I got some distant shots of cormorants, as I only had my 24-120 lens with me. A heavy crop gave me the shots below and while they won’t win any wildlife awards, I liked the silhouette shot.
As the sun was dipping, I got the shot below of a sea stack obtaining a sun star effect.
Then came the view of the Ynys Fawr sea stacks. What a stunning view! The shot below is my best one of the afternoon/evening.
As we made our way back to the car, I got a shot of another stack and that was my lot.
For a quick trip out, we were treated to some stunning and varied sights.
Onwards and upwards…