CANLYN Y CAMERA (following the camera) JANUARY 1990 Second diary of a Naturalist
At the beginning of a year, many of us probably made resolutions that have now all been broken! New year's resolutions are like that - temporary things that are forgotten in no time. Not so the photographer's pictures - if you look after them properly, they last forever. From the Dolig press, came 'Canlyn y Camera' - Second diary of a naturalist (Dwyfor Press) It is a chronicle of a period in the life of Ted Breeze Jones, and between two covers, he managed to capture in picture and word, the wonderful atmosphere of his area. As you would expect from Ted Breeze's camera, there are some great pictures of animals and birds: the little owl (pg.48), the jay and her chicks (pg.63), the silk-tail (pg.73), and the warty toad (pg.37) among the most memorable of them. There are also special pictures of the landscape and characters of Gwynedd.
But this book is more than that - there is a record of part of his life, and that of his wife Anwen: we get the story of their journeys to see some bird or other: we get a story about a fisherman in the waters of Llyn Cwm Orthin and a description of forking flounder in the Dwyryd estuary - a unique variety.
After reading a novel, you put it on a shelf to stand and collect dust - not so this book. You will want to pick it up again and again to read it, to look at the pictures and to show it to this one and that - and for £5.50 you get a gem of a book that will pay for itself in a big way. Buy it!