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  • Magnifico Montagna

    Magnifico Montagna

    The scale and magnificent grandeur of the Gran Sasso d’Italia mountains is emphasised by the seven distant motorcyclists (in the foreground), dwarfed against one of the peaks. Known as “Little Tibet”, the mountains are located in Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga National Park, near L’Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy.

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    July 23, 2022
  • Quintessential Spanish Country Life

    Quintessential Spanish Country Life

    The wind has swept from the wide atmosphere
    Each vapour that obscured the sunset’s ray;
    And pallid evening twines its beaming hair
    In duskier braids around the languid eyes of Day:
    …Percy Bysshe Shelley

    July 17, 2022
  • Saint-Guilhem-le-Desert

    Saint-Guilhem-le-Desert

    Shot during one of my French workshops, in which a couple of the participants can be glimpsed taking a well earned coffee break in the little cafe…

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    July 9, 2022
  • A Winter’s Day

    A Winter’s Day

    In a deep and dark December” … Especially then.

    The Balcon de Europa in Nerja, where the light is often sublime, is a great place to wait and hope someone will do ‘stuff’. Cycling, walking, sitting, winter calisthenics, or watch the setting sun.

    All you need is a camera and patience….

    July 7, 2022
  • One Man and a Boat

    One Man and a Boat

    A solitary stroller inspects the “Harvest Seeker” during its temporary beaching at Arthurstown on the Hook Peninsula in County Wexford. High and dry, I guess it’s one way to remove the barnacles and sea weed.

    The boat is a regular sight on south east Ireland’s Waterford Harbour as it drifts through the quiet waters collecting mussels grown in baskets on the sea bed. And BTW, there’s a ethereal shot of the “Harvest Seeker” in action on an earlier post: clicking on “Ard Eireann” below, lying in Arthurstown harbour (below) will take you right there.

    July 2, 2022
  • The Albert Dock

    The Albert Dock

    A Day in the Life…

    “….on Sunday mornings we’d make our way to the Pier Head and following a brief chat with the dock-gate policeman he’d let us in to wander through, and wonder at, the innovative Albert Dock...

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    June 25, 2022
  • Summer Solstice

    Summer Solstice

    Today is the Summer Solstice. A day that’s been observed in Ireland for thousands of years…

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    June 21, 2022
  • Life Savers

    Life Savers

    Early morning and “Doris Bleasdale”, the Clogherhead Lifeboat completes a beach landing near its base in County Louth, Ireland.

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    June 18, 2022
  • By The Sea

    By The Sea

    As Jacques Yves Cousteau said, “The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.” …early morning solitude near Benajarafe on Spain’s Costa Del Sol…

    June 11, 2022
  • Faded Glory

    Faded Glory

    Altamont house with its glimmers of its faded glory and resident peacock, emanates a warm and inviting glow as if it grew in the gardens.

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    June 4, 2022
  • The Wild Beasts

    The Wild Beasts

    Fishing Boats in the harbour at Collioure. The little French fishing village became a centre of artistic activity when a penniless Henri Matisse arrived after deciding to give his artistic career a push. He arrived in Collioure in 1905 and was immediately transfixed by the astonishing character and charm of the historic village, with the sea on one side and hillsides of terraced vineyards on the other.

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    May 28, 2022
  • Fandango

    Fandango

    Scaramouch, Scaramouch will you do the Fandango? asked a well known royal and mercuric figure.

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    May 21, 2022
  • Waterford Revealed

    Waterford Revealed

    The county is colloquially known as “The Déise” and pronounced “day-shih” after an Irish Tribe called the  Déisi, who were driven from counties Meath and Kildare area some time between the 4th and 8th centuries. They moved into the Waterford region, conquering and settling there – just like me some nine centuries later.

    Following a lifetime in County Meath bringing up kids, and co-directing the Slidefile stock agency, the move to a house just metres from a clifftop overlooking the Celtic Sea was inspiring. Friendly and welcoming neighbours and an incredibly photogenic beach nearby, it was a completely accidental, but wonderful discovery.

    It may be compact county, but it boasts two mountain ranges; the oldest city in Ireland; pretty fishing ports; a 19th Century mining legacy; prehistoric artifacts; ancient castles and charming villages. All in all, a wonderful heritage just waiting to be explored – and that’s what I did, revealing it a wider audience in my self published book.

    And today’s image of the view from the Mahon Falls to the Celtic Sea, became the book cover…

    You can read more about it if desired by clicking here, along with details of the redoubtable Dervla Murphy, and if the book takes your fancy, where to get a copy.

    And to finish, the film-noir version of the county’s hinterland…

    May 14, 2022
  • The Tour Barberousse

    The Tour Barberousse

    Or Redbeard’s Tower in English, stands above the coastal village of Gruissan in the Aude départment of France.

    The tower is all that remains of a castle built at the end of the 10th century to observe the approaches to the harbour at Narbonne and to guard against seaborne invasions of the city by the Saracens. Built on a steep, rocky hill, the castle was enlarged in the 12th century by the Archbishops of Narbonne, Guillaume de Broa.

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    May 7, 2022
  • Fleur-de-lis

    Fleur-de-lis

    The Fleur-de-lis or Iris is considered a representation of wisdom, elegance and faith in life.

    During the middle ages, the Iris became the emblem of the French monarchy when Louis VII adopted it as a symbol in the 12th century and the Fleur-de-lis became the accepted national symbol of the empire. As they also represent courage, victory and power the flower became the national flower of France.

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    May 5, 2022
  • Gateway

    Gateway

    One of those locations in the campo, I frequently return to. The silhouetted gateway, solitary olive tree and distant mountains, all enhanced by the evening light just keeps on producing iconic interpretations of the Spanish countryside…

    April 30, 2022
  • The Sea…

    The Sea…

    Waves and shafting sunbeams over the Celtic Sea as it fringes County Waterford.

    It was while searching through some infrequently visited files, for today’s image, that I found two forgotten videos. Compiled some six years ago as creative exercises to learn the art of videos, the black and white images lend themselves to a film noir approach, nicely enhanced by an atmospheric soundtrack called “Ocean Tapping” by PC III.

    So, a resurrected video on my resurrected blog ! It was fun to make and hopefully, still fun for others to watch…


    The remaining video will be added soon and if you’ll excuse the blatant marketeering, there’s more full colour imagery in my book, “Waterford A County Revealed”, details via the tab.

    April 24, 2022
  • El Tornillo

    El Tornillo

    Just one of the many geological creations found in El Torcal de Antequera, a nature reserve in the Sierra del Torcal mountain range near the city of Antequera in Spain’s province of Málaga.

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    April 16, 2022
  • Neoclassical Colonnade

    Neoclassical Colonnade

    Nine of the sixteen fluted Corinthian columns fronting the Neoclassical St George’s Hall.

    Standing opposite Lime Street railway station in the centre of Liverpool, England, the impressive hall was designed by Harvey Lonsdale Elmes, who oversaw its construction until he died of consumption in 1847. In 1851 another architect, Sir Robert Charles Cockerell, was asked to complete the interior decoration and the hall finally opened in 1854.

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    April 9, 2022
  • Running the Storm

    Running the Storm

    One running man and two flying seagulls in Nerja

    April 2, 2022
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