When I watch a gull in flight above some beautiful landscape my eye is drawn to the movement and for a moment I feel I share in its effortless freedom. Thinking about it some more I muse the gull has no concept freedom so in that moment the freedom was completely mine. Photo: Robert Rath, […]
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One of the most idyllic ports in Ireland might very well be the old fishing town of Kinsale on the southern coastline of Ireland. I have been fortunate enough to visit Kinsale a few times now but each visit has been fleeting, not really creating an opportunity to photographically explore in any meaning way. Until […]
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The first time I came across locks as icons of commitment was many years ago while travelling. On a bridge over the River Seine were hundreds of padlocks locked to the structure. Some were engraved, some were very old, some but not many had tags and all were resolutely locked in place assuming their keys […]
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Looking down from observation level into the Céide Fields visitor centre is like looking into an old well somehow both shiny new and steeped in history. From the bottom the ancient tree from the bog rises from gnarled roots like some old rusty needle ready to impale any poor soul unfortunate enough to slip and […]
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