You can keep your zombie apocalypse films…

I’ll stick to Cold War nuclear apocalypse ones. We’re talking about something which came very close to happening at times (either through accident or brinksmanship), and which would have been more devastating than the vast majority of hypothetical hordes of shambling undead.

Here’s a few of my favourites after the break. Depending on how your mind works you’ll either find these crushingly depressing, or you’ll suddenly find that nothing is quite as bad as you thought it was after watching them. One way to really impose scale on day to day struggles.

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A Night On The Brecon Beacons

I’ve been telling myself I’m going to spend a night on top of the Brecon Beacons with my camera for a while. The view’s incredible, the silence is incredible, and the isolation is incredible. Saturday the 8th of March found me at a loose end, checked that the weather forecast was for clear skies and headed down the M4 to Wales.

Need to go back for three reasons – I couldn’t get bulb mode working with the cheap remote I picked up, the wind shake affected the night photos and I want to try it with my heavier tripod, and finally because the sunrise was one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen.

Moonset

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