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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.
Transforming, Cole Blaq inspired LEGO™ brick robot.
I've always been inspired by the brickbuilt 3:1 4x2 brick sculptures. A few years ago I built version 1 of this little fella, put him in a box, and forgot about him.
I found him again recently, and decided to rebuild him from the ground up. There were lots of things wrong with v1, but I think I've managed to address them all.
HQ + Larger + On Black : www.dibec.com/brick.html
Vital Stats: ISO 100 24mm f7.1 15.0 Secs
This picture is part of a series in progress, a personal project, on the brick factories in Nepal.
This location is not included in the Expeditions we undertake.
I believe that there are certain boundaries were each human being, be it a photographer or not, has to make his own personal choice. This can not be a matter of touristic photographic trips..
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One last little build for NCLUG's January 2025 20 brick MOC challenge. Unlike my first two, all the parts are actually attached!
On the edge of Grand Ledge; a retired brick factory transformed into a park. They've cleaned the place up a bit since I took this photo in July of 2013, though it remains obviously a ruin.
The walls are going up as the builders keep laying the bricks as they aim to complete before breaking up the holidays
I thought of creating a photo with double shot to convey the depressive emotion of The Wall in my photo for Flckr Frday group this week. However when I saw the depressive weather this morning I decided to show the mood with these dark skies lying ahead of the brick wall of my building. I hope you like it as much as I do, thank you for your visit :)