Cork Twilight, Ireland

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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Saint Patrick’s Bridge, Cork, Ireland

Saint Patrick’s Bridge, Cork, Ireland Saint Patrick’s Bridge across the River Lee with the imposing Cork English College behind, Saint Anne’s Church and Shandon Bells Tower to the left and Saint Mary and Saint Anne’s Cathedral to the middle left, is such a clichéd image of the city of Cork, Ireland that I’m sure I […]

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Planes, Shades and Geometry

The Adelaide Exhibition and Convention Centre has got a few parts that don’t conform to 90 degree traditions. Where panels become planes, joins become lines and light plays over geometries you could be forgiven for thinking you were in school rather than walking down North Terrace. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Planes, Shades and Geometry’, 1/125s f/7.1 […]

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Giant’s Causeway

The Giant’s Causeway? Of course not but these hexagonal interlocking concrete columns remind me of the basalt columns of the Giant’s Causeway on the west coast of Ulster, Northern Ireland. I love seeing architecture with strong ties to geological and natural forms, even if unintended. Mostly these are large civic or commercial structures which have […]

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