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Alone

Seeing as I've not put much black and white stuff up for a while I'll follow the last one up with this, another one from Wales at the immense and extremely expansive Dinorwic Quarry.

I'd set this day out to visit the few parts of this huge quarry that I hadn't been to before, there's no maps of this place as such but I had a written guide from Mike Innes which I'd been saving for this walk when I got the time.

I reckoned it would take me about 3 hours or so for what I wanted to do, needless to say that wasn't 'quite' accurate as it ended up taking me 6 and a half hours... so only slightly out !! worryingly I was running out of water by the time I reached the highest point of the walk but upon turning a corner there were 3 big banks of snow at the base of a cliff that hadn't seen sunlight for months and hadn't melted, once the top layer got scraped away I was able to refill my bottles with slushy snow which made for a refreshing blast of re hydration.

The weather wasn't ideal for photography this day, this place really suits wet moody and overcast days, today was warm and there was a large amount of haze hanging around, until I'd got to this point I hadn't been able to see the Snowdon mountain range and had planned to isolate this building against the backdrop of the mountain tightly, however the light changed up a gear and the haze cleared enough to fully see the tops of the mountains which made for a great contrast against the shadowy foreground and lone quarry building giving a much better sense of scale.

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More images from Dinorwic can be found on my website - updated with new images and blog section

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Taken in: United Kingdom / Wales / Gwynedd (show map)

Taken on: April 17, 2019

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