Single Shot Series: Watching Over The A470
Posted by Stuart Herbert @ 6:47 PM, Sat 06 Mar 10
Filed under: A470 Trunk Road, Modern, Photos, Pontypridd, Pontypridd, Caerphilly and Newport Railway, Shoot
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If you can get out of bed early enough, this time of year offers fantastic light when the weather isn’t against you. And yet, look at the photography going on this time of year, and you’ll see that so few people ever look up to see – and photograph – what’s above them.
Mind you, you have to look up a long way to see this bad boy. This is one of the ridiculously tall lights that rises up from the Treforrest / Glyntaff turnoff to look down onto the elevated section of the A470. To have any chance at all of capturing this shot, I had to wander into the car park of the new University of Glamorgan campus (many thanks to the security team for their permission), and even from that elevated position I had a fair job getting the whole lamp into the shot.
Can you imagine having the job of changing the bulbs in this thing when they blow? 
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