Around Cardiff Bay - Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
After exploring Cardiff Castle and the city center, many visitors to Cardiff make their way to the area around Cardiff Bay. It features a mix of old and modern, from the Norwegian Church to the Wales Millennium Center, with the Doctor Who Experience thrown in for those who want to sightsee beyond the time constraints of old and modern.
The Photos (in order)
U12A2571 - Highlights of Cardiff Bay include the Pierhead Building, the Wales Millennium centre, the Senedd and the Norwegian Church
U12A2529 - Shops and restaurants line the Cardiff Bay waterfront near the Pierhead Building; Pierhead Building was built in 1897 as the headquarters for the Bute Dock Company; the clock tower is sometimes referred to as Baby Big Ben
U12A2545 - The Norwegian Church once provided a home away from home for Norwegian sailors making port at Cardiff, which was once a major hub for the Norwegian merchant fleet
U12A2512 - The Wales Millennium Centre on Roald Dahls Plass is a major stage venue, and is home to theatre, dance, opera and orchestra companies, as well as shops, restaurants and the Cardiff Bay Visitor Centre
U12A2537 - The Senedd is the National Assembly Building for Wales and is home to the debating chamber and three committee rooms
U12A2558 - The Doctor Who Experience features an interactive experience, an exhibition hall that showcases several props from the show, and sometimes a walking tour that covers several filming locations around Cardiff Bay
U12A2566 - View of Cardiff Bay, once one of the three busiest ports in the United Kingdom
U12A2482 - The Coal Exchange represents a bit of old Wales; Cardiff at one time was the biggest coal port in the world; coal trading took place on the floor of the exchange
Torchwood hub entrance better known as the Cardiff Bay water feature
Water feature outside Cardiff Millennium Centre in 2007.
National Museum Cardiff, Cardiff, South Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Europe
National Museum Cardiff is a museum and art gallery in Cardiff, Wales. The museum is part of the wider network of Amgueddfa Cymru National Museum Wales. Entry is kept free by a grant from the Welsh Government. The National Museum of Wales was founded in 1907, when it inherited the collection of the Cardiff Museum, which shared the building of Cardiff Central Library. Construction of a new building in the civic complex of Cathays Park began in 1912, but owing to the First World War it did not open to the public until 1927. The architects were Arnold Dunbar Smith and Cecil Brewer, although the building as it now stands is a heavily truncated version of their design. The museum has collections of archaeology, botany, fine and applied art, geology and zoology. In 2011, with funding from the Clore Duffield Foundation, the former Glanely Gallery was transformed into the Clore Discovery Centre, which offers hands-on exploration of the museums 7.5 million items that are normally in storage, including insects, fossils and Bronze Age weapons. School groups, formal and informal groups can also be accommodated but should book in advance. The collection of Old Master paintings in Cardiff includes, among other notable works, The Virgin and Child between Saint Helena and St Francis by Amico Aspertini, The Poulterer's Shop by Frans Snyders and A Calm by Jan van de Cappelle. A collection of landscape paintings in the classical tradition includes works by Claude, Gaspard Dughet, Salvator Rosa and two works by Nicolas Poussin: The Funeral of Phocion and The Finding of Moses (the latter owned jointly by the Museum and the National Gallery, London). These works prefigure the career of the Welsh-born Richard Wilson, called the father of British landscape painting. In 1979 four cartoons for tapestries illustrating scenes from the Aeneid were bought as works by Peter Paul Rubens, but the attribution is now disputed. There is a gallery devoted to British patronage of the eighteenth century, in particular that of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, who was nicknamed 'the Welsh Medici' for his lavish spending on the arts. Included is a portrait of Williams-Wynn in Rome with fellow Tourists by Pompeo Batoni, one of his second wife by Sir Joshua Reynolds and his chamber organ designed by Robert Adam. Other paintings of note from this period is a portrait of Viscountess Elizabeth Bulkeley of Beaumaris as the mythological character Hebe, by the 'sublime and terrible' George Romney, and Johann Zoffany's group portrait of Henry Knight, a Glamorgan landowner, with his children. The collection of French art assembled by Margaret and Gwendoline Davies, granddaughters of the wealthy industrialist David Davies bequeathed to the National Museum in the 1950s and 1960s, make Wales's National Gallery one of international standing. It includes the largest group of paintings by Honoré Daumier in the world and the most important by Jean-François Millet in Britain. Works by Claude Monet include San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk and examples form his Rouen Cathedral and Water Lilies series. Post-impressionism is represented by Van Gogh's late work Rain at Auvers, and by Paul Cézanne's The François Zola Dam, the first painting by the artist to be displayed in a British public collection. The two most famous works in the Davies Sisters' collection are La Parisienne by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, exhibited in the First Impressionist Exhibition, and a version of Rodin's Kiss cast in bronze. The art gallery has works by all of the notable Welsh artists, including landscapes by Richard Wilson and the pioneering Thomas Jones. There is a considerable body of work by John Gibson, Queen Victoria's favourite sculptor, and major paintings by Augustus John and his sister Gwen John, including the former's famous image of Dylan Thomas. Ceri Richards is well represented. The artistic output of David Jones is well represented, but seldom on display owing to the fragile nature of his works on paper. Wales's most prominent contemporary painter, Sir Kyffin Williams (1918-2006), also features in the collection. The collection of 20th-century art includes works by sculptors Jacob Epstein and Eric Gill and painters including Stanley Spencer, the British Impressionist Wynford Dewhurst, L. S. Lowry and Oskar Kokoschka. Works by contemporary artists are on rotational display, including those by Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach and Rachel Whiteread.
Cardiff Bay
A video of us just filming random stuff down Cardiff Bay. Filmed and edited by myself, it features the famous You Tuber, SPEZ, also starring Adam Keen. Will be posting more random videos like this as well as some short films.
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Leaky roof of Torchwood Cardiff ;)
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Water fountain - Wales millennium centre - Cardiff
water fountain in cardiff
National Museum Cardiff, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom, Europe
National Museum Cardiff is a museum and art gallery in Cardiff, Wales. The museum is part of the wider network of Amgueddfa Cymru .National Museum Wales. Entry is kept free by a grant from the Welsh Government. The National Museum of Wales was founded in 1907, when it inherited the collection of the Cardiff Museum, which shared the building of Cardiff Central Library. Construction of a new building in the civic complex of Cathays Park began in 1912, but owing to the First World War it did not open to the public until 1927. The architects were Arnold Dunbar Smith and Cecil Brewer, although the building as it now stands is a heavily truncated version of their design. The museum has collections of archaeology, botany, fine and applied art, geology and zoology. In 2011, with funding from the Clore Duffield Foundation, the former Glanely Gallery was transformed into the Clore Discovery Centre, which offers hands-on exploration of the museums 7.5 million items that are normally in storage, including insects, fossils and Bronze Age weapons. School groups, formal and informal groups can also be accommodated but should book in advance. The National Museum of Art opened in 2011. The collection of Old Master paintings in Cardiff includes, among other notable works, The Virgin and Child between Saint Helena and St Francis by Amico Aspertini, The Poulterer's Shop by Frans Snyders and A Calm by Jan van de Cappelle. A collection of landscape paintings in the classical tradition includes works by Claude, Gaspard Dughet, Salvator Rosa and two works by Nicolas Poussin: The Funeral of Phocion and The Finding of Moses (the latter owned jointly by the Museum and the National Gallery, London). These works prefigure the career of the Welsh-born Richard Wilson, called the father of British landscape painting. In 1979 four cartoons for tapestries illustrating scenes from the Aeneid were bought as works by Peter Paul Rubens, but the attribution is now disputed. There is a gallery devoted to British patronage of the eighteenth century, in particular that of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, who was nicknamed 'the Welsh Medici' for his lavish spending on the arts. Included is a portrait of Williams-Wynn in Rome with fellow Tourists by Pompeo Batoni, one of his second wife by Sir Joshua Reynolds and his chamber organ designed by Robert Adam. Other paintings of note from this period is a portrait of Viscountess Elizabeth Bulkeley of Beaumaris as the mythological character Hebe, by the 'sublime and terrible' George Romney, and Johann Zoffany's group portrait of Henry Knight, a Glamorgan landowner, with his children. The collection of French art assembled by Margaret and Gwendoline Davies, granddaughters of the wealthy industrialist David Davies bequeathed to the National Museum in the 1950s and 1960s, make Wales's National Gallery one of international standing. It includes the largest group of paintings by Honoré Daumier in the world and the most important by Jean-François Millet in Britain. Works by Claude Monet include San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk and examples form his Rouen Cathedral and Water Lilies series. Post-impressionism is represented by Van Gogh's late work Rain at Auvers, and by Paul Cézanne's The François Zola Dam, the first painting by the artist to be displayed in a British public collection. The two most famous works in the Davies Sisters' collection are La Parisienne by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, exhibited in the First Impressionist Exhibition, and a version of Rodin's Kiss cast in bronze. The art gallery has works by all of the notable Welsh artists, including landscapes by Richard Wilson and the pioneering Thomas Jones. There is a considerable body of work by John Gibson, Queen Victoria's favourite sculptor, and major paintings by Augustus John and his sister Gwen John, including the former's famous image of Dylan Thomas. Ceri Richards is well represented. The artistic output of David Jones is well represented, but seldom on display owing to the fragile nature of his works on paper. Wales's most prominent contemporary painter, Sir Kyffin Williams (1918-2006), also features in the collection. The collection of 20th-century art includes works by sculptors Jacob Epstein and Eric Gill and painters including Stanley Spencer, the British Impressionist Wynford Dewhurst, L. S. Lowry and Oskar Kokoschka. Works by contemporary artists are on rotational display, including those by Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach and Rachel Whiteread.
Close Up, water fountain in front of the Wales Millennium...
Close Up, water fountain in front of the Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff on October 23, 2013. Wales Millennium Centre is an arts centre located in the Cardiff Bay area of Cardiff, Wales. The site covers a total area of 4.7 acres. The centre has hosted performances of opera, ballet, dance, comedy and musicals.
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'Cardiff Bay' and 'The Doctor Who Experience' - Visit Wales
Cardiff Bay
Cardiff Bay (Welsh: Bae Caerdydd) is the area of water created by the Cardiff Barrage in south Cardiff, the capital of Wales. It is also the name commonly given to the areas of the city surrounding the Bay. The creation of Cardiff Bay is now widely regarded as one of the most successful regeneration projects in the United Kingdom.[1] The Bay is supplied by two rivers (Taff and Ely) to form a 500-acre (2.0 km2) freshwater lake around the former dockland area south of the city centre. The Bay was formerly tidal, with access to the sea limited to a couple of hours each side of high water but now provides 24-hour access through three locks.[2]
'Doctor Who Experience'
An exhibition titled Doctor Who Experience, complete with a new interactive Doctor Who episode with the Eleventh Doctor, opened at London Olympia on 20 February 2011 after a number of test days and preview visits.[1] It closed on 22 February 2012[2] and the exhibition moved to Cardiff, opening on 20 July 2012.[3] It will close on 9 September 2017.[4]
The immersive exhibition was designed and installed by the UK-based theme park design and installation company Sarner Ltd.[5]
The exhibition begins with a short film and a walk-through adventure inside the TARDIS and in various locations. The group are led through the experience by a guide and the Twelfth Doctor. Initially the Eleventh Doctor featured in the experience, but was replaced after he regenerated.....
United States:
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America (/əˈmɛrɪkə/), is a federal republic[16][17] composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.[fn 6] Forty-eight states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east and across the Bering Strait from Russia to the west. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U.S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, stretching across nine official time zones. The extremely diverse geography, climate and wildlife of the United States make it one of the world's 17 megadiverse countries.[19]
At 3.8 million square miles (9.8 million km2)[20] and with over 324 million people, the United States is the world's third- or fourth-largest country by total area,[fn 7] and the third-most populous. The capital is Washington, D.C., and the largest city is New York City; twelve other major metropolitan areas—each with at least 4.5 million inhabitants—are Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Miami, Atlanta, Boston, San Francisco, Phoenix, and Riverside.
Fountain in Cardiff
Fountain situated in Cardiff
Reflection in Water Tower, Cardiff Bay
Time-Lapse Photography by Andrew D. Ward and James W. Foster on 16th May 2011.
This is a Cult of the Artist collaboration for the BigLittleCity: Cardiff exhibition, 2011.
Cardiff Bay - Torchwood Water Tower
A wet and windy Cardiff Bay haha. Still the best place in the world through.
Spectacular crowds, atmosphere and action in Cardiff during Extreme Sailing Series Welsh debut
After Act's in Oman, China, Turkey and Portugal the Extreme Sailing Series came to Great Britain, making it's Welsh debut in the stunning Cardiff Bay.
Thousands came to watch the nine Extreme 40s race over four days, in a festival atmosphere as part of the Cardiff Harbour Festival from wing-walking, to parachutists to night racing.
Joining the nine world-class teams were Olympic heroes from London 2012 and a host of other sports stars including ex-England cricket captain Michael Vaughan Welsh rugby player and Jamie Roberts.
Going into the final all important double points race five teams could still walk away with the title, and Morgan Larson's team on Oman Air did, making it their second Act win this Series. The action now heads south to the French Rivera -- Next stop, Nice 18th -- 21st October.
Dafabet Welsh Premier League Launch 2015/16
The launch event for the 2015/16 Dafabet Welsh Premier League season was hosted at the Senedd in Cardiff Bay, the home of the National Assembly for Wales and Welsh Government.
Representatives from all twelve clubs, host broadcasters S4C and officials from the League were present to officially launch the new season.
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CARDIFF European Capital City
Rendezvous Cardiff
A promotional video produced by Cardiff Bay Development Corporation to promote the regeneration of Cardiff Bay. Used to attract, tourism, inward investment and businesses thinking of relocating from London.
This is a 640 x 480 pixel version which was pretty good quality at the time it was produced in 1998. Features many known landmarks in Cardiff under construction eg. the St.Davids Hotel and Spa.
Not For Love Nor Money. Cardiff, Wales, UK.
Not For Love Nor Money. Cardiff, Wales, UK.
Izzy has an exam today. After dropping her off there, Imo and IB go for a walk in Cardiff Bay, take a peek at the white water rafting centre, and go to a cafe overlooking the marina for a quick bite to eat and a coffee. Later that evening, Imo has a gig with one of her ceilidh bands in Bristol.
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Lena and Cardiff Bay Water Tower
Lena touching the Cardiff Bay Water Tower during short break, filmed with Kodak Zi8 720p 60fps
Torchwood Headquarters Cardiff Bay
Wish I could go see captain jack....
Massive Fish Cardiff
Mr Tank get a nice fish in water of Cardiff
Cardiff: An Adventure.
Summary: As the title says... Cardiff: An Adventure.
I flew half way across the world in the hope of tracking down the Torchwood actors and finding locations for both TW and Dr. Who.
Various Torchwood and Dr. Who clips used, as well as photos, taken by ME!! :)
Song: Girls just want to have fun, by Cyndi Lauper.
Vidder: Bethany16
Rating: PG-13.
VN: I really hope you guys like the way Ive showcased my photos. This was an extremely personal project, because its me in a quite a few photos, which is... well... scary! Shhh...(mid-life crisis) Hope you all enjoy!