
Canon 10D, 17mm, f4, 1/90, ISO 100
A little further on from the old graveyard was a newer cemetery. I didn’t spend long here as someone arrived to visit a grave so I made my way quietly back over the wall and left them in peace.

After the first workshop I decided to go for a bit of an exploration of the grounds around the Breaffy House Hotel where we were staying. After I’d met the horses I turned towards the forest and spotted gravestones over a stone wall. I can’t resist a cemetery, I’ve always had a fascination about them, so I made my way through the undergrowth and over the wall and was met with the view in the first photo. I had a great time trying to imagine how the subject of the second photograph came to be propped on the railings of an old grave. A thirsty ghost perhaps?

I’m going to start this week of Mayo photographs with my favourite. This horse is a resident at the Breaffy House Hotel. They must be treating him well because he was extremely happy. He’s just calling out for a LOL caption.