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Originally Posted by Tathra11

Jeez Jamie, you really do make a bloke want to come visit your lovely country. Hopefully it'll happen one day

If you do visit Wales, My advice would be to head to our coastline, especially along the Tenby Saundersfoot coast, I have travelled all over Europe from a young age and nothing compares to those beaches when the sun is shining, a walkers paradise, Tenby is about 1 hour 30 minutes drive from Merthyr my home town.

A few character portraits I shot over the last couple of days in my local park Thomastown park, we are having some glorious weather here in Wales over the last week, so has they say make hay while the sun is shining, the guys are all known to me some of them are old neighbours of mine, Mr Cledwyn Price and Mr Lionel Powles are two of my old neighbours, then we have second-generation Welsh Italian Mr Clive Barsi, then we have Richard Coles and John Coombes, these guys are quite a bit older than me with big personalities, such great fun to walk around with lots of fun laughter and some extremely funny stories.

Mr Cledwyn Price



Mr Lionel Powles



Mr John Coombes



Mr Richard Coles



Mr Clive Barsi

For some reason, black and white portrait photos seem to draw my attention to the character in a person’s face more than colour photos.

Great pics Jaimie.

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I do so enjoy your character portraits. Please continue posting them.

My younger brother Alan.



My wife Ceri working from home using Microsoft teams



I have never taken a selfie until now.

Great photos, Jamie. Your brother needs a shave though

I took these shots back in the late 1980s, local miners hauling coal working underground, a few of the miners were good friends of mine, one of them was called Neil Marshall we were good buddies all through school and still are to this day, he lives pretty locally to me and I see him pretty regularly, photo's cannot describe or convey how tough cutting coal by hand filling drams and hauling out the coal using Horses is, Miners in the South Wales valleys were a special people loved by their communities.

Shame Maggie shut all the coal mines eh? Whole villages just vanished.

Beautiful portraits of life, Jamie.