jeudi 9 mai 2019

Alea Jacta Est


Finally!





 After listening so many friends telling me how a blog was necessary to give you credibility, I decided to jump the Rubicon and to embark on the trip. I will keep the reading to a minimum; as this is more a window than a book. My comments, I hope will find echo in you and if I offended, shocked, outraged you, do me a favour, leave this place and go watch national TV.


Taking photos of a cormoran sun-tanning at Portbraddan, Co Antrim. Photo courtesy of Kay Smyth.

















dimanche 22 octobre 2017

Portrait de dame.

Miss Kaitlyn J Clarke in a pure 50's style and above "Mona Lisa" Caroline Leitch.
Louise C.
Laura M.

Faith B
Melissa Agnew
Ms J Wilson

Mrs H Gibney

Liz B

Donna Hodge,21.

Ms J Barron


Sinead M, la beauté d'Ava Gardner


Portrait d'homme

Andrew Bell.


Uncle Arne de Jessheim, Norway. Un véritable buste romain.





Maxime T, le temps des copains.


Jérôme.
Vous avez dit Armani?
David Hope, the Big Man.
Mon fils, le grand Louis.
Chris Heath, actor from Crossgar.
Wayne Boyd, F3 & NASCAR pilot  from Templepatrick.

Non! C'est mon frère, le grand Jacques, part de la Sainte Trinité Comptable de Aldi.
Jérôme, bête noire.Perdu dans les brumes picardes tripatouillant les avions.

Terre d'Irlande



Moi j'habite dans la partie qui est un royaume, dans un beau château avec princesse incluse; en fait, je me réveille chaque matin a ses cotés.Cela n’empêche pas que l’île est bien plus belle que ce soit en haut ou en bas. Certainement le dernier lieu en en Europe ou Mere Nature a encore des droits très importants sur les hommes.

Contactez moi et je vous ferai visiter, avec ou sans appareil photo! 

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Carrick-a-Rede on the north coast. You can see the tourists crossing on the right,

 

End of summer at Inch Beach, Co Kerry.

Lake Pollocapull, Co Galway.

Tree in Killarney National Park.
 

St John Point, Co Down. Un jour de chance puisque assez clair pour pouvoir distinguer le Slieve Donard (850 mts), dans les Mournes.

 

 

Achill island.


 

Near DerryLondonderry.
 

 

Baltimore, Co Cork

 

Aughris beach, Co Sligo in the morning.


 


Cliffs of Moher; the second most visited attraction of Ireland after St James gate, Dublin.

The gap of Dunloe, Killarney National Park.

The lovely and stylish Kilkenny.

Killarney National Park.

Caherdaniel, Co Kerry


 
The Dark Hedges, county Antrim near Armoy. The storm in 2016 "kill" 2 trees. A classic!

On the road to Carnlough, North coast, Co Antrim
Le port de Cork le matin.


View to the Glens, Co Antrim.
Carnlough beach, Co Antrim

 
Barque a Greencastle, Co Donegal.

Dusk at Glengarrif, Co Cork.
Dunluce castle, Co Antrim.

 
Lighthouse in the Burren region, Co Clare.

Brebis dans le Killary fjord, Connemara.



Arbre dans jardin irlandais.

Le lac Inagh, Co Galway avec une partie des 12 Bens en arrière-plan. Majestueux!

 

Spring in Connemara.

La mairie de Belfast s'est parée de vert pour la Saint Patrick.


La petite église de Balintoy, sur la cote nord, comte  d'Antrim.


Dentelle irlandaise dans jardin irlandais, Co Kildare.
Redcastle, Co Donegal in the evening.

Lake Ineagh, Connemara.

Castle Minard beach, Co Kerry.
Ineagh valley, Connemara.
Cottages in Ineagh valley.
Roundstone, Connemara.

Lake Ineagh, Connemara.
Glendalough, Co Wicklow.
Ineagh lake, Co Galway.

St John castle, Limerick.






Greencastle beach at dusk, Co Donegal. The other side is Northern Ireland

Achill island.

A bridge in Limerick city.


Quiet rainy morning in Kinvarra, Co Galway.
Peaceful Glendalough.

Cobh, Co Cork where left the Titanic for New York.


Le Connemara.


Ballywalter beach, on the eastern coast of Northern Ireland.

Glengarriff, Co Cork.

My favorite region: the Connemara and his lakes.
The wave.

Top of the Inishowen peninsula, in Donegal.



The same region of Glengarriff, Co Cork from a different angle.

Powerscourt, Co Wicklow. Instead of being "surprised" by the beauty of the castle, I found elegance in those 3 majestic eucalyptus.

An Grinian Fort; a surrealistic fort on top of a hill with miles of clear view at 360 dégrées.

A new area of Glendalough, peaceful place of St Kieran.

End of a day Rosses Point in Sligo.

Spanish point. Emblematic site on the Clare coast who still host some treasures at large. El rey Juan Carlos y la reina Sofia vinieron en 1998 a inaugurar una placa por los fallecidos de la Spanish Armada a manos del sheriff del condado de Clare quien mato a unos 600 españoles como ordeno la reina Elizabeth I.


Ross castle in Killarney National park,Co Kerry. Una leyenda decía que solo por el mar llegarían a tomarlo. Y así fue.


Connemara.

The Spanish Point, Co Clare. A very nice beach who saw the slaughter of hundreds of spaniards sent ashore when their galeon sanked

Golden Hour on a wheat field near Ballywalter, Co Antrim.

Near Armoy, small village in county Antrim. I was showing early in the morning to some customers the Dark Hedges and the nearby landscape was waking up.
Naguère utilisées pour la construction de bateaux, les grues géantes d'Harland and Wolff ne servent maintenant que a restaurer les plateformes pétrolifères de la mer du nord. Sic transit gloria mundi.



Glenariff forest, Co Antrim.

Glencar waterfall,Co Sligo



In Killarney, county Kerry,the castle offers also a small river with some small boats standing there all year round. Just at the bridge.

Inisheer beach, Aran island.

One of the tiny island near the "Carrick-a-rede" attraction on the north coast.

I went to spend a few days in Grencastle county DerryLondonderry. Photo taken nearby the hotel at dusk.

On a dark, rainy day the Killary fjord in Connemara, still offers some dramatic views.

In county Antrim, above Greenisland, the Knockagh monument ready to resist to the coming rain.

A view of East Belfast from the Duncrue Industrial harbour.


Near Hollywood, Co Wicklow.



The Benbulban from Aughris beach, Co Sligo.

Inishowen Peninsula, Co Donegal.

Fanad lighthouse in Co Donegal.



Fin de journée aux teintes dramatiques près de Larne, Co Down.


Leaving Baltimore and heading to Cape Clear island, Co Cork.
La rocaille aride du Burren, région inhospitalière s'il en est une en Irlande.
Arbres  dans le comte de Meath.

Oiseaux dans la baie de Belfast en fin de journée.


Pollacappull Lough  dans le domaine de l'abbaye bénédictine de Kylemore, dans le Connemara. Beaucoup de légendes quant a la montagne dans l’arrière fond et surtout son surnom, le diamant. On m'avait dit qu'a certaines époques lorsque le soleil brille sa partie supérieure se met a briller et émet une forte lumière du a la reflection du soleil sur ses plaques de schiste parfaitement lisses. C'est vrai, j'ai pu assister une fois  a ce prodige.

Le dock Thompson, véritable berceau du Titanic. L’édifice a gauche est la salle des pompes qui asséchaient cette cale.
Fanad lighthouse, Co Donegal.

Waterville dans le Kerry. Apparemment un des haut lieu du golf dans la planète. J'ai vu des hélicoptères gares sur le gazon devant les maisons et.. ce n’étaient pas des jouets!

View of the Slea Head and the Blasket island in the distance. Wonderful place. Co Kerry of course.

While trying to spot whales near Baltimore, Co Cork. We spotted them but in such wide space, it was impossible to framed them.


End of the day on the lake near Killarney. I took that photo from my bedroom at the Lake hotel. This photo prove how Nature still reign in this part of the planet and how man is insignificant here. You can see a man on the jetty on the left, totally absorbed by the grandiosity of the show.

Samson and Goliath in the Belfast harbour.


Sunset on Carrickfergus, Antrim.

Castlerock beach, Northern Ireland

Sunrise at Aughris head, Co Sligo. A wonderful and peaceful place.

Glendalough; the place where St Kevin found peace. That was before  tourism was invented.

Near Coleraine, Northern Ireland.

Lough Caum, Kerry, Ireland under the moon






Glenarm hill from Carnlough, Antrim coast, Northern Ireland.

Strangford Lough from Portaferry, Northern Ireland.



Belfast bay with moon, Northern Ireland.


Barquito de papel, Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.

Clear island the land of the O'Driscoll near Baltimore,Co Cork, Ireland.

Cafe, my dog at Whiterock beach, North Antrim coast, Northern Ireland.

Carnlough, Antrim coast, Northern Ireland.

Carrickfergus Marina before the storm, Antrim, Northern Ireland.



Donegal

Donegal

The pretty church of Ballintoy, Antrim coast.

Glens of Antrim since Castlecairns, Northern Ireland.

Castlerock beach, on the north coast near Coleraine, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland.

Port de Belfast depuis le pont; a droite l'Odyssey puis le Titanic Centre avec sa proue distincte.



Belfast bay at the end of a very cold day, in November.The moon is already there.

The Glenoe waterfall; a favourite destination for the people of Belfast.



The only fjord in Ireland, Kilcarry near the village of Leenhane.

Near Killarney, Co Kerry.

Leenane on the Killary fjord, Co Clare. Connemara country.

Dungaire castle, Kinvarra, Co Galway.

Kinvarra harbour at sunset, after a good diner on the last restaurant of the pier.

Kinvarra harbour at sunset, before a good diner on the last restaurant of the pier.

The peaceful Kinvarra village in county Galway.

The Killarney lakes from the "Ladies's view"

Fat Moon over Belfast bay.



Dunquin beach under the moon, Kerry, Ireland.

Mussendun Temple, Northern Ireland.

Poulnabrone dolmen, Galway, Ireland. The most touristic dolmen in Ireland, in the heart of the Burren. I prefer the one in Carlow myself.

Rainy day on the Achill island, Co Mayo, Ireland.


The Scrabo tower in Newtownards, Co Down, Northern Ireland.


The roof of Belfast with the major buildings of the capital.

Irish carpet near Carryduff, Co Down.

Titanic Center, 3 centuries in a single photo.