A few more shots from Greystones Harbour.
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Keel-Hauled
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Shipwrecked
It was a really good weekend for photography. I got out both days and got some shots that I’m really happy with. I’ve been meaning to go to Greystones Harbour for awhile and I made it down there on Saturday evening just as the last of the light was disappearing.
It was bitterly cold and my fingers were so numb I nearly dropped my camera into the water in this old rowing boat but it’s my favourite shot of the afternoon:
I’ll post some more tomorrow.
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Madonna Of The Snowglobe
I spent some time taking photographs in Rathdown Cemetary in Greystones yesterday afternoon. What is it about graveyards that is so fascinating? Rathdown is a pretty modern cemetary so no ancient tombstones to be found there but still, I love to read the inscriptions and try and piece together something of the people’s stories.
I didn’t stay long. Being a Sunday there were a few people visiting graves and I felt awkward about taking photographs. Even though I was sure to be as inconspicuous as possible (never putting the camera to my eye for instance) and nobody even gave me a second glance, it still felt like I was doing something wrong.
When I go, I want to have lots of interesting information on my tombstone (no cremation for me thank you) so that people will stop and read it and, who knows, maybe blog it. Haha…a final post from beyond the grave!
(More HERE)
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Crying In Public
Some books really ought to carry a social embarrassment warning. David Copperfield for instance…nobody told me how sad it is…I’m talking about a tear-jerking, ugly-faced crying, true-life movies level of sad. Reading it on the train home yesterday evening I was blubbing into my scarf. I wouldn’t mind but the girl sitting in front of me was reading Should Have Got Off At Sydney Parade which is obviously at the opposite end of the scale: red-faced, wheezing, can’t-catch-my-breath-except-to-snort-like-a-pig funny.
We must have looked a right pair.
Yesterday afternoon I got an email from an Irish animator, Ian Kenny, who funnily enough I intended to post about as part of an update to an earlier post. Last week, totally unrelated to that, he had been sent a link to the Garda Prank post and thought it would be a great clip to animate. The result can be viewed on his site HERE and it’s absolutely brilliant, he’s captured the expressions and timing perfectly. Great work Ian!
And while you’re there why not check out some of the other short films on his site.
NOTE: It would seem that Ian’s getting some heavy traffic to his site so it’s down at the moment. I’ll leave the link pointing to the YouTube version for now.
Update: The site is back up and running so you can now watch the animation in high-res, non-YouTube, niceness.
Here’s the link to the YouTube version as Ian’s poor site is obviously buckling under the stress of all that lovely traffic 🙂