St. Patrick's Day......

Yep, time again for the mega St. Patrick's Day Parade thru' Killarney town. This normally involves rain, freezing wind and shivering children in dancing costumes, football kits etc. This year was different, it didn't rain......

The Cullen Pipe and Drum Band, wouldn't be Paddy's Day without them.

Green ice-cream

St. Patrick Himself

Strolling down Main Street with Sam casually under the oxter....

Country Stylee......

Driving a cart of turf into the future.

It's official. We're multi-cultural.

Banjaxed..............

My right arm has fallen off!! Or to be more precise, my computer has decided to give up on life, forever....Luckily I have everything of importance backed up on external hard drives so things could be so, so, so, so, so much worst. Just the inconvenience of it is all.....
The kind people in the shop have given me a loan of another while my new one is on order so I'm not completely lost. However, I'm gonna wait until I get my new one to load up all my image editing software, cos there's a lot of it and it's a pain the ass to do it only to have to remove it in a few days.
Still, I'll not be idle. It's St. Patrick's Day and tis not raining, so I'll pack up the old Nikons and head for the town and the parade. Should be good!! Enjoy yerselves.

Banksy V Robbo

Big whoo-haa in the graff world in London. War after breaking out between Banksy and old school graff artist King Robbo after Banksy painted over one of Robbos works which has been there since 1985. Robbo emerges from retirement to "mutilate" the other new works by Banksy along Regent's Canal. See all about it here : http://www.sprayblog.net/2010/02/banksy-vs-robbo/

I captured a couple of them while walking along the canal a few weeks back.

Original piece by Banksy in red said " I don't believe in global warming"

Banksy La Rat.......

Kilmalkedar.....

Spring has arrived!!! The weather is still on the chilly side, but that doesn't matter when the days are dry, and with clear skys and good light thrown in the mix Kerry is the place to be. Another jaunt to West Kerry with camera in hand where I called into Kilmalkedar Monastery. This monastery, founded in the seventh century is home to the ruins of a church, graveyard and some pre-Christian artifacts.

The twelfth century church was built in Irish Romanesque style, typical of the architecture of monastic settlements of the time. Note the tree bowing to the westerly winds from The Atlantic.

The settlement photographed from the west.

Pre-Christian Ogham stone on the grounds of the church.

Pre-Christian sun-dial . About 4.30pm.......

London Town.

I'm falling behind on my weekly blog after just one entry. Terrible! But I have an excuse, I was away. In London to be exact. Some photos of my ramblings about there further down in the blog.

Called to National Portrait Gallery and saw The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Exhibition, which was really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really good. For obvious reasons I was unable to take photos here, but go to http://www.npg.org.uk:8080/photoprize/site09/index2.php , and you'll get the jist of it.

The Great Court of British Museum, designed by Norman Foster. Unfortunately, on the day I was there, the sky overhead was overcast, so the shadows created by the roof mullions under direct sunlight were not apparent. However, the diffused light created by both the cloud cover and the roof fabric caused a totally even light with a slightly green tint throughout the entire court. Had lunch there and took it all in. Very impressive.

http://www.fosterandpartners.com/Projects/0793/Default.aspx

Not too sure where I took this, 'cept it was on a side street.

While walking along the canal from Little Venice to Camden, the gods smiled on me and sent beautiful rays of light for the hour coming up to dusk. The Golden Hour.

Street Art by Space Invaders. I have a few photos, taken a couple of years back, of his work in New York also. Must dig them out and post up. http://www.space-invaders.com/sominv.html

Coming into Camden I encountered what the news calls "youths". We chatted for a few minutes, they posed for a photo, a policeman appeared and they ran away. End of story!

Ok, I finally am after getting around to setting up my blogspot to report on my photo travels . The plan is to update this blog on a weekly basis and in addition to posting my view of the world through a lens, I shall also be posting items pertaining to all things photographic which catch my interest.

This week, on a beautiful, clear, sunny Tuesday, I headed for the Dingle Peninsula. This world famed area of beauty is spectacular this time of year when the weather is agreeable, and this is further enhanced by the absence of tourists. Waves, rocks, sand, mountains, wind, space and silence...... A little corner of the planet for the soul!