Abbeystrowry Cemetery is located near Skibereen in County Cork. It is the site of some of the mass graves used in the area during the famine around 1845. I didn’t know, or had forgotten there was a famine in 1740/1741 when 400,000 people died. That many people died on this little island of ours in [...]
2010Sun24Jan
Abbeystrowry Cemetery
Filed in Black and White, Canon 40D, Cork, Ireland, Photography, Photos, Sigma 18-200, Urban
2009Wed06May
Sacred to the Memory
Filed in Black and White, Cork, Ireland, Photography, Photos, Sigma 10-20, UrbanDeath is a sad but inevitable part of life. A gravestone marks the earthly remains of the departed with a brief message recording their passing with, if space permits, a note from the grieving family. All that to sum up the life and times of a person. Seems very inadequate. In the future of course [...]
2008Mon15Sep
Tullagh Cemetery at Sunset
Filed in Canon 40D, Cork, Ireland, Landscape, Nature, Night, Photography, Photos, Sigma 18-200, Sky, Sun, UrbanTullagh Cemetery in Baltimore, Co Cork, Ireland is just a field away from the excellent Casey’s Hotel where we spent the last week. I went down there one evening to shoot a couple of half capsized trawlers in the bay when I turned around and saw some of the headstones silhouetted against the setting sun. [...]
2007Tue17Apr
Co. Cork Cemetery
Filed in Architecture, Canon 20D, Co. Cork, Cork, Ireland, Landscape, Nature, Photos, Sigma 10-20, Sky, TreesCo. Cork Cemetery A graveyard in Co. Cork attracted my attention last summer while walking with Oscar down a small road. I didn’t go in but I got a few nice shots from over the cemetery gate. This is a the result of sandwiching two versions of this image together. One is overexposed and the [...]
2006Tue31Oct
Currykippane Cemetery
Filed in Co. Cork, Cork, Ireland, Landscape, Photos, Sigma 10-20, Sky, Sun, TreesCurrykippane Cemetery It’s Halloween, that time of year that the souls of the dead rise up, goblins and monsters are abroad and witches fly about. I’ve already had my barm brack and even got the ring, but tonight is when kids go “trick or treating” looking for treats and avoiding tricks! I made this image [...]
