Yesterday on a cold day with northerly wind we headed north. Three of us, Mick, Donie and myself. I met the lads at the Angler's Rest pub and headed north through Cloghroe, keeping due north. It was cold and my feet were cold throughout. A misty day with occasional mizzle.
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Goodies, as in nice places to cycle, not cycling equipment. The nearest goodie to me is Winter Hill. Cycling up to this vantage point takes about thirty minutes from where I live, or 25 if I try to keep up with my sons, which is only possible when they have a hangover and I don't.
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After I buy my new bike my next major purchase will probably be a decent digital SLR camera. My current compact digital is a Kodak 3.1 megapixel CX6330. It cost me £150 and is probably worth about a tenner now. The background in this picture looks washed out – I don't think it was as [...]
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I've taken landscape photos as long as I can remember. Before digital cameras they were always black-and-white, processed in a darkroom in the attic, but there's no need for that with a Canon G9 and Adobe Photoshop. The process of colour photography is quite different to monochrome, which tended to be the medium of choice [...]
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When I lived in Melbourne Australia I found it hard to cycle very much. Too hot and nowhere safe to ride. So I walked along the beach with my camera for a couple of hours each day. I got to know a woman at the beach, and she also walked, so we sometimes walked together. [...]
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Rooting around my image files recently, I found a map of the Beddgelert Forest in Snowdonia, North Wales. As I cycle in the forest several times each year with my brother, I know the routes quite well, but the map still comes in useful. The junctions between the various tracks are marked with small timber [...]
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CycleSeven 2009-2012
