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If you get to Porth Wen just as the sun comes up the bricks of the old Porth Wen brickworks glow with that lovely warm pinky, orangy brick colour. There must have been a lot of rain over night and the little gully you follow down through the gorse was a fairly rapid stream that I thought might end in a waterfall at the bottom. But it wasn't that bad and I arrived just before the sun started to shed the long shadows and orangey light. I immediately headed for that outcrop of white quartz that rises out of no where and ends in a Durdle Door style archway where it falls towards the sea. I climbed to the top and set up my tripod but realised that with a 16mm wideangle it wasn't wideangled enough to get the three ovens and the main brick building in shot. I needed to move further back. Further back, and closer to the sea the spine of quartz has just one more step, but it is narrow and short and a few feet higher than the rest. I was not at all happy trying to get up on that last point. The vertical drop on three sides is considerable and I managed to get up on top on all fours. But I felt that if I tried to stand up I might over balance. Using my tripod as a third leg I unsteadily rose to my feet, not daring to move in any direction. Carefully I put up my tripod but the space was so small I couldn't spread the legs far and I had to stand in the space between the two tripod legs. I don't suffer from vertigo but boy did I feel wobbly and unhappy there. At Porth Wen brickworks I really was bricking it. I just hope the shot was worth it. Of course I could have made it much easier and safer, and just stitched two shots together from a closer vantage point.
Yes, for the first time since October 2019, I've displayed models at a real-live LEGO event: Brick Féile, held just north of Dublin last weekend. It was fantastic to be around other LEGO fans again and to show models to the public, in a really friendly atmosphere.
The models are a subset of my movie car collection, which I last displayed in Manchester, in 2018. After that the models stayed in the UK, with the good people of Fairy Bricks, who were going to take them to Ireland for Brick Feile 2020. Due to the pandemic, this was postponed to 2022.
The models are getting old by now, but they were well looked after and the public loved them. And for me it was great to see them again, after four years!
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You do get to see interesting characters on the streets of Brick lane, more so on Friday nights.
Brick Lane, London/2014.
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It was unseasonably cool (think warm instead of blazing) a couple of days ago so my kids and I ate pizza at the park. I thought this still looked pretty even after it had been rained on .