… is how we describe a wet day in Ireland. Here is rain seen from the Departure Lounge of Derry Airport.
Category Archives: Photography
Rephotographing Atget
If you love Paris, then this site may help to explain why. On a trip to the city in 1989, Christopher Rauschenberg found himself looking at a gate at Saint-Cloud which looked oddly familiar. Then he realised that he knew it from a celebrated photograph by Eugent Atget taken in 1924. This led him to a voyage of discovery — going to the locations that Atget had photographed between 1888 and 1927 and rephotographing them. The results are astounding, simply astounding. The Paris that Atget knew is still there — and astonishingly untouched by development. See for yourself.
So who’s going to get me down from here?
Tilly, in our apple tree, following the unexpected arrival of an energetic puppy.
Farming today
Comberton, near Cambridge.
Spoon feeding
Photographed at a dinner in the Royal Society of Arts in July. Note the highly ornamental ceiling.
The joys of tourism
Photographed outside a coach stop in Donegal.
On reflection…
Donegal Bay, this morning, with the Sligo mountains in the background.
Dereliction
Another variation on the emigration theme.
Emigration
The view from Owey, an uninhabited island abandoned by its last residents in 1973, off the coast of Donegal. There’s something very poignant about these relics of what was once a thriving community, which once even supported a school.
The Leap
Near Rossport, Co. Mayo.