Berlin By Fisheye

When I was about 17-20 my favourite photography method was always film, I didn't have a good digital camera until about 3 years ago and I just preferred to physically have a copy of my image.
I have 2 film SLRs, a few lomo's and an old Konica point and shoot but for Berlin I decided to take my fisheye as it's light, small and has a flash just incase.

Berlin as a whole was a pretty 'grey' city (the sky, buildings...) so my pictures didn't all turn out great but I got back a few snaps I love so here they are:

Drinking a 'small' German beer (it was SO BIG!).

TV Tower.

Top of the Reichstag dome. 

The Reichstag.

Our Group.

View from our balcony.

I have a few more pics from my digital camera I'd love to share in a different post. Germany was such a lovely country I keep shopping at Aldi and Lidl and buying mad Euro foods just to take me back :p

Hope your week is going well, I've been flat out can't believe it's only Tuesday! 

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Berlin trip pt 1.

It's been a week now since I've been home from Berlin and the blues are just drifting away, I thought I'd share my time there and why I loved the city so much. I took most of my photos on my fisheye (which I still need to get developed) because lugging my massive DSLR around was gonna hurt!

I'm terrified of flying so instead of knocking myself out with pills (like I did on the way home) I decided to get drunk at the airport - big mistake! Massive panic attack ensued during take-off and I felt so uneasy the whole flight but once we had landed I was ready to hit up Berlin hard.

We booked an apartment for the 6 of us using AirBnB.co.uk (which I highly recommend, you pay before you get there and they are mostly privately run) and the apartment itself was incredible! It felt like our own shared home:

On our first night we hit up some bars and hung out with the locals who showed us the ropes. its so crazy how liberal Berlin is we could smoke in the bars and they had no measurements for the alcohol  (which had me a bit worse for wear on the Friday) and everything was crazy cheap.

The second evening, after nursing our hangovers, we decided to go to Alexanderplatz and go up the TV Tower. You go up 666ft in 40 seconds in the lift it was mental! The views were great as the day had been pretty clear so the evening you could see about 20miles across the city. There was a fancy bar there too where we had a drink before going back to our place for drinks before hitting up one of Berlins famous House Music nightclubs 'Watergate'. 

I'll post up part 2 of my trip a little later in the week plus I really want to get my films back so I can share some better pictures!

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Adventure Time at Dinas Rock.

The best thing about living in Wales is that I am surrounded by amazing and beautiful places to explore! There are so many nature reserves, mountains and walking trails, almost every weekend (weather permitted) I try to get out and find new places to go exploring and this weekend lead me to Neath-Port Talbot to Dinas Rock and Waterfall.

There are loads more waterfalls in this area too but we spent hours just walking up and around this one - at one point we were so high up it was getting cloudy! We saw a few other people there in proper hiking and climbing gear - even a dog in a little waterproof! 

There are lots of caves around aswell that apparently King Arthur's knights lay in waiting to be called upon to battle. 

On Thursday I'm off to Berlin for 4 days so anybody who has some recommendations of what to go and do or see I'd love to hear!

I hope whatever you got upto this weekend it was a great one :)
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