A while back I wrote about pipes but there were strings attached after all. Well sort of. There was one solitary harp. Thanks Jack for the beautiful counter to the reedy sound of those pipes. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Strings Attached ‘, 1/320s f/2.8 ISO1600 200mm
Read MoreMonth: January 2018
Above The Cage
If this really were a cage then is the man in it the keeper? He may as well be as he locked the door and made sure I descended back down into the Céide Fields Visitor Centre below. The centre provides a rich interpretive experience of a Stone Age farmed landscape which dates around five […]
Read MoreMorning Songbird
Almost every morning we get to be serenaded by the most beautiful and complex birdsong of Australian Magpies. Our local front garden tenants have not always been here. Over the years we have had other birds take up residency. From miners to pigeons to parrots and even crows nothing beats the beautiful sounds of magpies. […]
Read MoreThe Longest Twenty Seconds
We watched as the base of the setting sun touched the horizon. In two minutes It will be gone. You can’t measure the diameter of the sun as it appears in the sky but you can measure the angle it makes with your point of view, about one half a degree. So with a little […]
Read MoreIt’s All ‘Bout the Pipes, ‘Bout the Pipes, No Strings
Thanks to two wonderful friends Gavin and Kate I have been introduced to the world of pipes and piping and will never look at or listen to a piper or a pipe band in the same way ever again. I’ve watched the two of them develop from clumsy novices to performing in last year’s Edinburgh […]
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