Trinity College in dublin is a fantastic place to go to take pictures, the architecture around the grounds is outstanding and varies around every corner.
Obviously this door has gone through a good bit of post processing but I do love the way it looks now.
I have so many images to put up from Sweden but dont want to bore you all with them but I did get some great shots. This was taken in Skansen Park again this timelooking up the sail of a windmill, it made me feel awfully dutch.
Another one of the many hundreds of photos taken in Sweden, this time from Haga Park, and the cooper tents were built in 1787-90 and designed by Louis Jean Desprez. He proposed that all the façades of the buildings should be designed as tents, clad in decoratively painted copper plate. However, tent façades were only built on the side facing the main lawns, which still gives the desired illusion of a sultan’s encampment on the edge of the forest.
Today the middle copper tent is home to the Haga Park Museum. The tent to the east houses a restaurant and the one on the western side is accommodation. The copper tents are a national monument.
Yes I am back from Stockholm with over 500 photos to go through, an EF 50 mm f/1.8II and a longing for another break.
We had a ball and our host, Dolly, made us feel very very welcome.
I will be putting up more photosfrom Sweden when I have some time too, but this was one image I did not want to hold back on, this was taken across the lake to the City Hall in Stockholm. This hall is also where the yearly Nobel Ceremony takes place, but for me the architure mixed with the fantastic skyline really make this photo.
I really need to get out and about with my camera a bit more.
Yes I have not been to Norway for a while now but I have revisited my archives finding some pictures which for some strange reason I never really worked on.
This is a shot looking up at the palace in the centre of Oslo.
Another photograph from my lunchtime excursion with fantasyjackpalance.
He brought me to this colourful building WAV the Whelans and Village ticketbox at the side of Whelans pub.
I had to take a picture for 2 reasons
1. The colours used in the artwork on the masonry of the building is really vibrant.
2. The name of the place really got my attention since wav files are something that as a sound engineer, I deal with on a daily basis.
Yippee I am back from my holidays, how happy am I!
Well the trip to Enniscorthy in Wexford was excellent and very relaxing but more on that in later posts. On Wednesday we went to the Irish National Heritage Park in Ferrycarrig, and I have to say what a fantastic place to go to.
A quote from their website explains all “From campsite to Ringfort, from mill to
Fulacht Fiadh, from Crannog to Viking house, every activity is an unexpected adventure into 9000 years. The world you enter is an authentic recreation of Ireland’s heritage. Homesteads, places of ritual, burial modes and long forgotten remains will enlighten the casual visitor and interest the scholar.”
This is an image of the Church at the Early Christian Monastery. From around 550 AD a major change took place in the Irish Church, with the arrival of Monasticism. This form of Christianity originated in the Egyptian desert and spread quickly across Europe. Its ideals of seclusion and prayer seemed to appeal greatly to the Irish people, and Monastic Settlements were very quickly established throughout the country.
During this period, some of Ireland’s greatest works of art were produced, such as the
Book of Kells and the Ardagh Chalice, and Ireland became known abroad as the “Island
of Saints and Scholars”.
The monastery in the Heritage Park consists of the Church, a Monk’s cell, a scriptorium,
a refectory and garden.
So I have another Monastery to add to my collection of places visited and I have plenty more images from the park to put up over the next few days.