In Photos dot Org » Water http://inphotos.org no photoshopped images here Thu, 24 May 2012 18:47:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Houses of Parliament http://inphotos.org/2012/05/24/houses-of-parliament/ http://inphotos.org/2012/05/24/houses-of-parliament/#comments Thu, 24 May 2012 18:47:42 +0000 Donncha O Caoimh http://inphotos.org/?p=5917

The Houses of Parliament in London, UK dominate the skyline near the river.

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Yellow lighthouses at the mouth of Reykjavik Harbour in Iceland.

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]]> http://inphotos.org/2012/04/14/yellow-lighthouses/feed/ 0 Sólfar, The Sun Voyager http://inphotos.org/2012/03/12/solfar-the-sun-voyager/ http://inphotos.org/2012/03/12/solfar-the-sun-voyager/#comments Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:48:30 +0000 Donncha O Caoimh http://inphotos.org/?p=5764

This is a metal statue in Reykjavík of what looks like a Viking longboat but according to the Wikipedia page is in fact a “dreamboat”.

It is a common misunderstanding that Sun Voyager is a Viking ship. It is quite understandable that many tourists think like this when travelling in Iceland, the land of the sagas. Nonetheless, it should be stressed that this was not the original intention.

Jón Gunnar was himself very ill with leukaemia at the time that the full-scale Sun Voyager came to be constructed, and he died in April 1989, a year before it was placed in its present location. Some people have thus suggested that Jón Gunnar conceived the work during this period, at a time when he might have been preoccupied with death, and argued that Sun Voyager should be seen as a vessel that transports souls to the realm of death. While this is a nice idea and might be imagined to have some validity, it actually has little truth (at least from the point of view of the artist). As noted above, Sun Voyager was essentially envisaged as being a dreamboat, an ode to the sun symbolizing light and hope.

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]]> http://inphotos.org/2012/03/12/solfar-the-sun-voyager/feed/ 0 The Blue Lagoon http://inphotos.org/2012/03/08/the-blue-lagoon/ http://inphotos.org/2012/03/08/the-blue-lagoon/#comments Thu, 08 Mar 2012 12:32:59 +0000 Donncha O Caoimh http://inphotos.org/?p=5720

The Blue Lagoon, Iceland. The water is lovely warm, even quite hot in places and is full of silica and sulphur. There’s usually a smell of bad eggs in the air from the sulphur but when we visited it was definitely bacon we smelled. Really weird. A great experience except when hailstone started to fall. Those things can really sting your ears and face. The rest of you will be safely and warmly under water.

Check out John’s great photo at the Lagoon too.

If you visit Iceland you have to visit here!

The warm waters are rich in minerals like silica and sulphur and bathing in the Blue Lagoon is reputed to help some people suffering from skin diseases such as psoriasis.[1] The water temperature in the bathing and swimming area of the lagoon averages 37–39 °C (98–102 °F). (via)

PS. This was edited in Aftershot Pro as well. I used cloning layers to hide some blemishes, and an adjustment layer with and exposure of -1 to darken the sky. I figured out how to use the polygon tool in the layers menu to select only the sky and mask off the rest of the photo. I think it worked rather well!

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A man enjoying his ice cream in Kinsale on a very sunny July day last year.

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A ship tied up at the quay in Kinsale, Co. Cork last year. The vessel was mostly deserted but we saw revellers boarding it regularly, walking around the deck and then off again!

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]]> http://inphotos.org/2011/09/26/hold-her-steady/feed/ 2 The white sands of Cuminole http://inphotos.org/2011/08/15/the-white-sands-of-cuminole/ http://inphotos.org/2011/08/15/the-white-sands-of-cuminole/#comments Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:45:50 +0000 Donncha O Caoimh http://inphotos.org/?p=5599

The white sands of Cuminole Strand glisten on a lovely June day in 2009.

This photo almost makes me want to reach out and tilt it as my eyes are drawn to the curve of the land…

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The Goose Family of Fota Island Wildlife Park in Cork.

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Waves crash into the sea wall at Garrettstown Beach, Co Cork a few weeks ago. Beautiful day for a trip down there and the wind blew the sea into violent waves pounding the man made obstructions on shore.

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3 boys playing with a football on Garretstown Beach. The tide was coming in and I watched them kick the ball out into the water. The day was freezing though with a strong offshore wind. Brrrr.

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