..or not so cruel, as it provided many wonderful photographic oppourtunities this past weekend.
I’ve been super busy the past few days. On Friday night, after dinner with Peter, I went back near his place and walked out along the sea/harbor/beach area and took photos. It is gonna take me a long time to get through them and get them up as I took alot. I also took some to experiment with some panorama software, so there should be interesting results from that (when I get to it, which will hopefully be very soon). It was really pretty though, the sun was setting over Dublin and the sea breeze was cool. It really reminded me of home, the salty sea air. The only difference is the water is much less polluted (which can be seen in Saturday’s pics, more on this later). I went out along this place called the Old Wooden Bridge, which is frankly, an Old Wooden Bridge. It is privately owned but they allow the public to use it, save once a year when the close it to remind everyone who owns it. There is something about that, it just cracks me up. Anyway, it runs out on what appears to be a barrier island. You can see what I’m talking about here. There is a windswept golf course and all out there. Also, there is a parkish type thing with sandy and grassy dunes that for some reason remindied me of the barrows in the lord of the rings. I’ll get pictures up as soon as possible.
I took saturday to sleep in and head out to the penninsula of Howth. This is the sort of place that you see in the guide books and on commercials. The hillside is absolutely stunning. According to Peter, Lord Howth conquered the vikings living in the area in about 1100 and the Howth family has lived there ever since, and infact, owns the whole place still.
I spend a good couple of hours walking around and photographing the fishing boats and sail boats in the Harbor. As it was a saturday, they were all docked, no one was working.
I really enjoyed the harbour area though. It reminded me of old town Annapolis, in scenery, food, and scent. The only difference would be a stunning hill off to the east of the harbour (pics of this to come in the future).
I hiked up the hill side, and it was indeed a good bit of a hike. Hiking boots were probably the best acquisition I made before I came over here. That and the 12-24mm lens. I find myself using that almost exclusively. Anyway, I hiked way up through the town, made a few wrong turns and ended up in a little park (little is an understatement). The top of the hill is all the park and you can walk the trails, well, I went off the trails and went up as high as I could and took some shots for a panorama or two, then found a place to sit and looked out down the hills and out into the sea. It was so easy to just lose yourself for a long time. Good luck getting me home from here..
