Standing sentry to all passers-by, four of these these eagle sentinels adorn the Swiss Cottage Bridge over The River Suir. I wonder if their gargoyle like appearance was meant to instill some form of apotropaic magic to protect the cottage from ill. Probably not but it’s fun to imagine! Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Sentry’, 1/500s f/2.8 […]
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This flighty little character will never compete with the absolute self assurance of Bugs Bunny himself. Still it is easy to anthropomorphically imagine a ‘what’s up doc’ in a thought bubble above this scene. What’s up indeed I thought as I pointed my lens and pressed the shutter. A single click later and my less […]
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Even at 1/3200 of a second this incoming bumblebee’s wings are a blur. Short of using a high powered strobe I don’t think it is possible to freeze their motion completely. There were two kinds of bees hard at work on this patch of flowers. One was a slimmer and less hairy bee which methodically […]
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Ben Bulben loomed, first small in the distance and now larger as we neared. Grey clouds shrouded the landscape and rain fell like folded curtains across the mountain. Having only ever seen Ben Bulben from a distance it was time to get a little closer. We drove up green shrouded country lanes, closer, higher. Then […]
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Long ago castles were constructed to both defend and impress. In more peaceful times manor homes continued the tradition of impressing positions of wealth and power. The need to impress will never go away but it’s nice to spend a little while dining in a fabulous structure looking out over an even more beautiful land […]
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