CEULAN MILL, Talybont, Ceredigion 2011
Notes on CEULAN MILL, Talybont, Ceredigion 2011
An unexpected visit and also of note some items have disappeared notably many, many spools of wool and possibly some baskets. The stuffed heron remains. The bulk of the machines survive, the atmospherics, as ever, survive. The morning of my visit was cloudy with drizzle and little light entered the mill - exposures of 90 minutes were used (a three to six hour exposure would have been preferable) and thus, one has to question the argument of film v digital. A digital image could have been taken in a fraction of the time and therefore more exposures could have been made. My love of traditional film photography is however too strong, too imbedded to alter my current course. At this moment.
Abandoned in 1959 one get the feeling that the workers just downed tools and left everything just as one witnesses it today.
An unexpected visit and also of note some items have disappeared notably many, many spools of wool and possibly some baskets. The stuffed heron remains. The bulk of the machines survive, the atmospherics, as ever, survive. The morning of my visit was cloudy with drizzle and little light entered the mill - exposures of 90 minutes were used (a three to six hour exposure would have been preferable) and thus, one has to question the argument of film v digital. A digital image could have been taken in a fraction of the time and therefore more exposures could have been made. My love of traditional film photography is however too strong, too imbedded to alter my current course. At this moment.
Abandoned in 1959 one get the feeling that the workers just downed tools and left everything just as one witnesses it today.
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By Davey Jones: loved in talking y bont for my early years. YES it's haunted. at the age of 10 I hid on one of those missing baskets and nearly peed myself. as footsteps came up to the top floor but never left, waited ages to get out, but no one left ?.
also if you go by where the waterfall was, some early mornings you can see paradolia figures (kids ). But the splashes,it ain't seen fish as they messed the river and slous channel back in the 90s putting in gas mains pipeline. hopefully going back in January for. vigil.
oh sorry for spelling mistakes 🙄