During this pandemic lock-down period Nigel Danson, one of the two YouTube vloggers I’ve been following since 2019, has launched an international landscape competition to raise money for Covid-19 causes as well as to provide a focus of activity at a time when travel and landscape photography are significantly limited. Follow the link to the competition - closing date 31 May 2020:

Three weeks before the official Coronavirus lock-down and a week before we went into voluntary isolation, we spent four days in South Wales exploring the area around Porthcawl for walks and photographic opportunities. This was inspired by the book Photographing South Wales by Drew Buckley. Four locations were selected and are represented in this month’s images: Kenfig Nature Reserve, Sgwd Gwaladus (Lady Falls), Dunraven Bay, and Nash Point.

I think of Ebbor Gorge as the secret sister of Cheddar Gorge. Both cut through the Mendips, and both have had intriguing evidence discovered of neolithic man living in their forests and caves. However, whereas Cheddar is internatioally known and is a huge regional visitor attraction with all the commercialism that attracts. Ebbor is little known beyond local knowledge and retains its secrets and mystery…