Jon Pountney

‘Just because I’m cheeky, doesn’t mean I’m not serious’

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I waited 18 months to photograph this scene, after spotting it in March last year and not having the right lens with me. Blaenau Ffestiniog on Sunday.

[Richard Morris @ahistoryinart]

'Spring Morning,Campden Hill.' (1940) The effective use of light is the true subject of Algernon Newton's pictures. Reviewing his career, he said: ‘I felt I had to try to create something in every picture I painted, a mood, a mental atmosphere, a sentiment.’

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Never seen this Bill Brandt before- incredible. Slag-Heap and Miners' Cottages, Shotton, near Boldon Colliery, East Durham, by Bill Brandt, 1937.

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@timcliffsmith He really wasn't happy with me taking a photo!

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Around South Wales on 120 film

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Around South Wales on 120 film

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Here you go folks- a Meades Youtube playlist https://t.co/cj0h79VONy

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@Pepper64780244 I don't, I just see shit from twats like you

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CHRIST I wish we could get away from him

[Reform UK @reformparty_uk]

Love him. Hate him.

You simply can’t ignore him.

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@LeeGriff2255 Would have

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9 years today I took this photo! I took a trip to Barry Island to do some filming, but I soon gave up and had a wander. Pretty quickly the rain came in, and then the sunbeam, and I'm still shocked that I managed to be in the right place at the right time.

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@LeeGriff2255 Haha as if I do!

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@Barb_Drummond Incredibly rude

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Not posted so much because I've been so busy and asthma has been a real ballache, but what do you think of my little test for what a Wales at the Seaside booklet could look like? Playing with colour, text, texture etc. Will probably be ready in time for Christmas!

[Jon Pountney @JonPountney1]

Not posted so much because I've been so busy and asthma has been a real ballache, but what do you think of my little test for what a Wales at the Seaside booklet could look like? Playing with colour, text, texture etc. Will probably be ready in time for Christmas!

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

‼️ Watching Sir Robin Knox-Johnston defend the @RNLI on @BBCNewsnight is deeply personal for me.

I grew up in Porthcawl, the South Wales town whose seafront is shown whenever a great storm crashes into Britain. My mother chaired the local RNLI fundraising committee, fundraising for this cause is central to seaside communities. Many of our friends served volunteered as lifeguards and risked their lives regularly.

Those of us who grow up beside the sea know its power. We know that when someone is in danger, you do not first ask where they were born, how they arrived or whether saving them is politically convenient. You launch the lifeboat.

RNLI volunteers risk their own lives to save strangers. They do not make immigration policy and they do not control our borders. They answer distress calls and uphold the ancient law of the sea: a life in danger must be saved.

For @SuellaBraverman to call this an “RNLI taxi service”, and for Reform and parts of the Conservative Party to turn lifeboat crews into political punchbags, is utterly disgraceful.

Britain is an island nation shaped by the sea. For centuries, people arrived here and departed from here by boat. Courage, seamanship and going to the aid of those in peril are woven into our national character.

Scapegoating lifeboat volunteers for saving drowning people is not patriotism.

It is the absolute antithesis of being British.

[Jon Pountney @JonPountney1]

Not another soul was on the beach! It really changed the way I think and work, and that day I became an artist much more focused on landscape and my place in it. I'm glad so many people enjoy this photograph; here are a few of the other shots that day

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9 years today I took this photo! I took a trip to Barry Island to do some filming, but I soon gave up and had a wander. Pretty quickly the rain came in, and then the sunbeam, and I'm still shocked that I managed to be in the right place at the right time.

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I'll ask again... Someone MUST have links to @RealSirTomJones? I'd love to photograph him for my CYMRU project; and I live in the street he was born on! Here he is on the old bridge in Ponty