an actual landscape actual photograph...

...actually!

After what seems like an eternity since my last landscape photography outing (well, four months or so) we all ventured to our favourite place on a Friday evening a couple of weeks (5 May to be precise) ago - the upper reaches of the Swansea Valley and Craig y Nos Country Park.

So, into the foothills of Bannau Brechy... I mean the Brecon Beacons!

Anyway, after watching a family of geese with mum, dad and five goslings in the park for a while, we drove further up the valley where I got my camera out for my first landscape images in a looong while.

First stop was overlooking Pen y Fan and Corn Du to the north, though they're not visible in this shot:

Fujifilm X-T5, Fujinon 100-400mm f4-f5.6 at 100mm
1/125th of a second at f6.4, ISO 125
tripod, self-timer release
6-shot panorama stitched in Adobe Lightroom

Then we drove back down the valley to photograph some cascades. In the process I was dive-bombed by a pair of ducks as they landed in the river near where I'd set up!

Fujifilm X-T5, Fujinon 10-24mm f4 at 10mm
1/20th of a second at f9, ISO 125
tripod, self-timer release, Kase Wolverine circular polarising filter

The images aren't that great, but I was just glad to be able to get out of the house and take some pictures.

Of course, there's an accompanying video to this escape, and you can watch it by clicking below:

Anyway, my hospital treatment starts on 9 May and at time of writing I can't say I'm really looking forward to the next nine weeks of twice-weekly injections.  I'll of course endeavour to keep you abreast with how things go.