Sunshine, Summertime and Sunsets

Beautiful bride, overjoyed to be in the snowy Welsh Valleys  

     
     In reality the bride above would have her hair soaking wet from the mist, the hem of her lovely dress black and sodden with mud and her beautiful arms like the carcass of a turkey with goose bumps and frozen flesh........ nice.
    Even photographers have to take a holiday in the sun eventually…..! When they become desperate enough.

      The desperation this time was caused by the longest, coldest, winter most people up here in the Welsh Valleys can remember. With a summer of wall to wall welsh wet to look forward to, a trip to Majorca at the end of April seemed to be a necessity for health and sanity reasons and for the health and safety of the brides I shall be photographing. 

Majorcan idyll, a great place for a wedding

          For most of my working life since my children were large enough to fend for themselves I have taken holidays covering colourful events in France, the Gipsy Pilgrimage from Les Saintes Maries de la Mer, being one of my favourites and various pageants in Spain and Italy coming in close runners up, because the pictures still sell and the events are fun in themselves.

           This April trip had no monetary motive. Rest, relaxation and a little roasting in the Mediterranean sun was the sum total of my aspirations. However although I resisted taking my wedding cameras and my favourite lenses (that hurt) a camera is still a must. 

A classy venue, except for the plastic cups.

Not a lager lout in sight, the plastic cups are there to preserve the safety of little feet, and the lovely 
racing yachts below give Arenal a decidedly elegant air.

Yacht racing in the charming seaside town of Arenal

           My battered FujiFinePix with its 28-300 mm lens is always the camera I choose for family snaps and beach outings and despite the lack of control in focusing and it’s inability to produce sharp images when the lens is covered in sand or greasy fingermarks, it does produce some surprisingly attractive images. Particularly some delightful sunsets, something I have never been lucky enough to encounter in Wales!

At the end of a hot day, a glorious display by the setting sun

    Any beautiful Welsh bride deciding to get married in the sunshine of Mallorca, I'm ready and available, my Spanish is excellent, my skills unquestioned and what's more, I know exactly where to find the best sunsets. 
        Which is not to say that I won't be only too happy to provide a large white umbrella and the identical skill set anywhere in the triangle between the Gower, Brecon and Cardiff.

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