Monthly Archives: September 2015

The Battle of Curlew Pass

HorseThis will be my last update for a while while I get my workload down and complete my CAA license for the drone pilot so apologies if I don’t pick up on any of your posts for a while, I’ll try and check as and when I can.

Today’s image is the chieftain statue at Boyle, Co Roscommon ~ Unveiled in 1999, this ‘Chieftain’ is overlooking the site where the Battle of Curlew Pass was fought 15th August, 1599. The Battle of Curlew Pass was fought between an English force under Sir Conyers Clifford and a rebel Irish force led by Hugh Roe O’Donnell (Red Hugh O’Donnell). The English were ambushed and routed while marching through a pass in the Curlew Mountains near Boyle.

A magnificent and large piece of metalwork that’s well worth a visit, it’s sited right at the side of the road and has a large car park for visitors to come and enjoy the view out to sea whilst enjoying a picnic.

Adrian

Causeway Contemplations

Giants-Causeway-1It goes without saying the Giants Causeway is one of the most visited natural attractions in Norther Ireland and my visit was no exception, literally hundreds of tourists scrambling all over the place, we found people hammering coins into the cracks between them hoping for some mystical good fortune……good luck with that one then.

Anyway as I scrambled to get away from the crowds we attracted our own following of Chinese and Canadian tourists wanting shots with the dogs, after a ten minute obliging session I finally got away to do some shots myself. I came across this solitary figure of a young woman deep in contemplation ignoring all the hustle of the surrounding crowds and looking out to sea, that perfect moment caught on camera I thought.

Withing 2 minutes the crowds were round her and the moment was gone, she probably never realised I was taking her picture and probably never will but I now she was somewhere else thinking perhaps of lost ones or what she was going to have for lunch, who knows!

have a great weekend all

Adrian

Slieve League

Sleive-League-1-SKyWhat an amazing place this is, we were so glad we made the trek to the Atlantic Coast of Ireland.

It’s a fantastic walk from the lower car park up to the top car park where all the lazy people drive up for an ice cream, you get to see so much of the beautiful coastline along the way. This place must truly be on every photographer list of shots to have in their collection.

The cliffs are the highest in Europe and there is a great 5 hour walk all the way along the tops to be done, this is on our next trips list as this was a recce mission this time.

These are some of the highest cliffs in Europe and at 609m there’s a long drop into the Atlantic if you fancy it …NOT.

We were as usual swamped for pictures of the fur kids, I managed one or two myself, don’t worry Thunder isn’t being choked , well he is a bit but that’s his fault, 600m drop 3m away I wasn’t taking any chances with him!

Puppies-at-Slieve-LeagueIce cream on the way down was lovely, the pooches loved it.

Adrian

 

Wicklow

Wicklow-1Hi all

finally got around to uploading my images from my super Colorspace Unit of the Ireland trip to my Mac today, taken a while but hopefully you’ll agree worth it.

The first is from the latter end of the trip high up in the Wicklow mountains, I even managed to fall in the river below here twice, once most embarrassingly rolling about like a turtle on its back not being able to correct itself. After the sniggers died down I rolled sideways out of the heather and rocks and eventually to safety……funny after the fact but not at the time.

Weather wise we had pretty good days on the whole 3 really wet ones and I mean wet , it was like having buckets of water thrown at you for 72 hours, not fun for sure and it did ruin one of my intended shoots at the Cliffs of Moher. So next years trip will be there until I get all the images I need for the book.

We had fun and games with Binny Boo slipping her collar in Dublin, million to one accident we still can’t work out how on earth it happened, anyway the drivers of Dublin were amazing and stopped traffic while we recovered her, all safe apart from us nearly having a heart attack!!! new super dooper collars and connectors here now.

More to follow