Gareth L Evans' photos

I'm not really a street photographer (I lack the essential courage) but London always offers opportunities and these are some of my better ones I think (I've posted one or two before but I'm gathering under one roof)

I'm not really a street photographer (I lack the essential courage). This is probably the one I'm most pleased with, a grab shot in Malaysia a long time ago

The little Carmarthenshire town of Laugharne in Wales is a pretty little place and it was glowing in the late spring sun. Pah, you can take the Mediterranean Among other anniverseries, 1914 is the centenary of the birth of Dylan Thomas, one of Swansea’s most famous (and dissolute) sons and Laugharne is inextricably linked with him because he lived here in his later years its life is parodied in Under Milk Wood as the small town of Llaregub (try saying that backwards). His writing studio is preserved and has seeping wonderful views of the Towy Estuary and Carmarthen Bay from Swansea all the way to the tip of Pembrokeshire. Its so off the track though that it remains unspoiled and wears its in-house celebrity lightly even during Thomas’s centenary year. The pubs, for example don’t carry signs saying “Thomas drank here”, although presumably because he drank at every one of them; every night “Only you can hear the houses sleeping in the streets in the slow deep salt and silent black, bandaged night. Only you can see, in the blinded bedrooms, the coms. and petticoats over the chairs, the jugs and basins, the glasses of teeth, Thou Shalt Not on the wall, and the yellowing dickybird-watching pictures of the dead. Only you can hear and see, behind the eyes of the sleepers, the movements and countries and mazes and colours and dismays and rainbows and tunes and wishes and flight and fall and despairs and big seas of their dreams. From where you are, you can hear their dreams”

Olympus OM2 Tri-x Tmax Developer Orange Filter I stumbled across Webber St the other day, one of those happy serendipities of London life.

Olympus OM2 Tri-x Tmax Developer Orange Filter The contrast between the 800 metre corridor along the Thames north and south of the river is astonishing North of the river in Victorian times was posh and land was expensive, so the railways had to go underground South of the river was proletarian and land was cheap. It was cheaper to build railways overground So south London is criss-crossed by railways. It is almost impossible to walk these streets without falling over a railway bridge It drives one to distraction sometimes becasue it narrows the view from street level But because this was marginal land, the developers left alone that which the Luftwaffe missed. And so if you look down rather than up you come across these forgotten Victorian relics and see London unchanged from the era prior to 4 August 1914. And lots of lovely, contrasty, London stock bricks

Mamyia C33 Ilford HP5 Rodinal 1+25 The grossly oversized tower of St Brynach Church in Nanhyfer stands guard over a tenth century Celtic high cross in a grove of 700 year old yew trees (one of which – the Bleeding Yew of Nevern) exudes a deep red sap. It’s a glorious little spot, in the valley where in Welsh mythology (The Mabinogi Sagas) King Arthur hunted the magical wild boar (the “twrch trwyth

Mamyia C33 Ilford HP5 Rodinal 1+25 (I underdexpos ed this but it was fun rescuing it) The grossly oversized tower of St Brynach Church in Nanhyfer stands guard over a tenth century Celtic High Cross in a grove of yew trees (one of which – the Bleeding Yew of Nevern) exudes a deep red sap. It’s a glorious little spot, in the valley where in Welsh mythology (The Mabinogi Sagas) King Arthur hunted the magical wild boar (the “twrch trwyth

12th century church on the site of a 8th- 9th century celtic chapel Capel y Grog is the oldest church in the Welsh county of Ceredigion commanding a presence over the cliffs of the Ceredigion Coast.. It's a mystical little place - a "thin" place in Celtic spirituality - where the veil between the worlds is more fragile. Its one of those Welsh chapels which are patently built on millenina of Christian and pre-Christian worship It was a stopover on the celtic pilgrimage route from Ynys Enlli (Bardsey Island) in the north to Tyddewi (St Davids) in the south

12th century church on the site of a 8th- 9th century celtic chapel Capel y Grog is the oldest church in the Welsh county of Ceredigion commanding a presence over the cliffs of the Ceredigion Coast.. It's a mystical little place - a "thin" place in Celtic spirituality - where the veil between the worlds is more fragile. Its one of those Welsh chapels which are patently built on millenina of Christian and pre-Christian worship It was a stopover on the celtic pilgrimage route from Ynys Enlli (Bardsey Island) in the north to Tyddewi (St Davids) in the south

The Preselis are by no means the highest or grandest of Welsh mountian ranges but they have an alluring beauty in the bright Pembrokeshire sun (twice a year) and in moody stormy weather (every other time). We were lucky to be there in the bright sun! A big history as well. For boats travelling from Ireland to Wales in the iron age the Preselis were a navigation aid and the outcrops of rock (the bluestones) were thought to have healing qualities. THey were the natural quarry for the builders Stonehenge to where these "healing" stones were carried two hundred miles away They were also use locally and the Dolmen in Pentre Ifan is the best preserved neolithic burial chamber in Wales (and one of the most beautiful anywhere