Just before that wintry blast from the North that covered half of Ireland in snow, bringing many counties to a standstill, we had an amazing clear night and starlit night. The following morning every kind of frost imaginable adorned leaves, grass, and ground cover. Even old flowers holding on from Autumn were transformed by amazing […]
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Laying with Daisies
The unmistakable effect of ‘shallow depth of field’ can bring the most mundane scene into dramatic relief. Looking around at the world, our eyes and our brains remove this effect and in our minds we imagine we see everything in sharp detail. Nothing could be further from reality. The uncomplicated view of a camera and […]
Read MorePushing Up Daisies
It’s ironic how such dainty little white and yellow flowers have taken on the omen of death. Still, here they are all congregated in a suspiciously defined patch of open grass amid the old graves of Greyfriar’s Kirkyard, Edinburgh. You can of course look at those little white and yellow daisies see them for what […]
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