Images of Wales

Sheep in the Welsh Landscape
Breconshire & Glamorgan

Photography by John Ball - Dec 1997, Jan/Feb/Mar 1998
(with Agfa ePhoto307 digital camera)

There are less than three million people in Wales, but over eleven million sheep!
Today's pictures feature just some of them.

Above: Sheep grazing in winter sunshine at Glyntawe below the peaks of
Cefn Cûl (left) and the snow-topped Fan Gihirych (right).

Above: A distant flock of sheep streaming across the lower slopes of Cefn Cûl.

Above: Sheep grazing in a lush meadow beside the River Wye at Builth Wells.

Above: Rain is threatening in this scene near Pontneddfechan.

Above: Sheep near Pontneddfechan enjoying a welcome supplement to their diet.

Above: Sheep wandering down the lane in front of my house. It is a
common sight for sheep to be roaming freely through my village.

Above: One of the end products of the earlier scenes - woollen textile
emerging from a loom at the Abbey Woollen Mill, Swansea.