Back in December we had the good fortune to experience an Irish Christmas. I can’t begin to describe the differences between a wet Irish Winter and a hot Adelaide summer but needless to say there was considerable culture readjustment in both directions. This blustery evening in Galway on Ireland’s west coast ended in us getting […]
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It might be the first light of a Lake Killarney dawn but there is nothing tranquil or serene here. The battered shoreline strewn with debris and the dirty brown froth, barely visible in the gloomy half light, hints at night’s fury now abating. If I wait long enough tranquility might return but I don’t like […]
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If there is one lesson I have learned in creating images is the simple act of showing up. Sometimes, showing up is easy, other times it borders on a sheer act of will against everything going against you! I had one morning opportunity to visit the beautiful lakes region of Killarney in Ireland on my […]
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This shop in the Irish village of Blarney reminded my of Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory but on a much smaller scale. That hot pink is something you’d never see back in my home town where the incumbent chocolate shops are all in white, creams and brown. Bring on the colour! Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Mind Meltingly […]
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The most common natural colour in Ireland is green, green grass, green treas, green hills and green mountains. This twilight over Cork however was a blazing ochre yellow as the illusive sun finds a way into the evening clouds. To the right is Saint Fin Barre’s Cathedral with the Cork Christmas Ferris Wheel. In the […]
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