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.

Image 1:

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

Image 2:

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

Image 3:

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

Image 4:

Rain is threatening in this scene near Pontneddfechan.

Image 5:

Sheep near Pontneddfechan enjoying a welcome supplement to their diet.

Image 6:

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

Image 7:

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