15 Mins of Bee Fame

Over the last few years, we’ve kept a working relationship with a past Welsh Photographer of the Year, the film maker and photo-journalist Joann Randles. This is because Joann is superbly talented at her day job, capturing moments of time, but it’s invaluable that she is a beekeeper in her own right (and keeps a hive of her own bees in one of our apiaries). Over the years Joann has taken a number of beekeeping related photos that I’ve has been in, either in Gwenyn Maes Chwarel’s apiaries or at the hives kept by the Botanic Garden of Wales.

Joann has also taken a number of notable photos of our bee’s regular neighbours, the Penlan Flock of sheep. Her annual ‘baby lamb’ shots have made the national broadsheets more than once. My favourite beekeeping picture though was taken in the Quarry Field Apiary, while the bluebells were at their most stunning and the sun was shinning. Hard to imagine after this wet spring.. It actually landed on page 7 of the Times as well as the Times Online two years ago tomorrow. Goodness how time flies.