Irishman and International travel photographer in search of the best bits of Ireland. Leading photography tours and experiences in Ireland.
Contributor to New York Times / Sunday Times / Irish Times / Echtra Echtra and Eonmusic
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Covered in moss and with its own little niche containing water, a wooden rockpool this was one of the finest trees in the woods.
Check out one of my other 360-degree panoramas of Trinity College Dublin's Long Room Library.
It's a tree that Monty Python rightly described as the Mighty Scots Pine in their famous Lumberjack Song performed by Michael Palin.
Unfortunately, Ireland's state electricity utility ESB have decided to plaster this fine landscape with electricity poles and cables that pass across the lake via the island.
Like a scene from a Western film we watched the riderless horses, with their sheeny-sweaty musculature, rounding up the relaxing cattle and herding them off into the large field before returning to the shady coolness under the protective canopy.
Sycamore is a strong and sturdy tree, able to withstand all that the Irish weather can deliver.
Trees provide a focal point for photography whether that be standalone trees on ridges or hills, deciduous woodlands or planted neatly in urban parks.
National Tree Week 2021 is here and I am posting some of my favourite tree images from over the years. Check back again tomorrow to see more.
Ash trees can live for up to 400 years but in recent times with the arrival of an asian fungal infection, the trees have been suffering from a disease called ash dieback.
There is a Flower, the Lesser Celandine,
That shrinks, like many more, from cold and rain;
And, the first moment that the sun may shine,
Bright as the sun himself, 'tis out again!
William Wordsworth, THE SMALL CELANDINE from Poems Volume II 1815