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"Nant Gwrtheyrn"
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In the late 1970’s I had great
interest in Nant Gwrtheyrn, and I decided to make a photographic record of
the then, deserted village. In three years I visited about ten times, and
in all that time I didn’t see a living sole, well except two wild mountain
goats which I got to see once, and managed to take three photographs of
them before they disappeared from view. I found it a fascinating place and
took many black and white films. For the technical amongst you, Ilford Fp4
125 a.s.a, and Hp5 400 a.s.a, and two cameras, a Nikon F2a and a Nikon FM,
and a range of lenses from 20mm up to 200mm. And in all I must have taken
about 500 photographs, and used a tripod for most of them as well. I then
developed the films, and printed some of them, in a make shift darkroom at
home. After the workmen moved in to start rebuilding the village I stopped
going there, and have never been back there since. |
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