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An old farm with a mountain view.

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The old farm with a mountain view, Ninemile house, Tipperary
Irish Landscape Photography : Nigel Borrington

The Irish Landscape is full of old Farms and home places, filled with many memories of generations past…..

This farm is located very close to the mountain of Slievenamon, country Tipperary.

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The Storm Crow Calls. By, John W. McEwers

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The storm Crow
Landscape Photography, Nigel Borrington

The Storm Crow Calls

By, John W. McEwers

It sounds like rain
big rain
the kind that hurts
if you tip your face back
and catch drops on your tongue, ill advised.

But whether the rain hits hard or you stay inside
it screams thunder, and you must pay
attention enough to hear
the storm crows call,
telling you you aren’t safe
or strong enough
or big enough
or happy enough

but you dont know better
and you believe him when he calls
and the storm crow gets your goat
in his talons.

Reflections , poem by Emmy Gaspar

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Kings river at Kells , County Kilkenny
Irish Landscape Photography : Nigel Borrington

By : Emmy Nielsen Reyes de Gaspar

There is so much beauty in life,
Beauty in the human soul,
Beauty in the heart and in the mind
Of the good man and woman.

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There is beauty in nature,
Beauty in the sky and in the clouds,
In the mountains and in the sea.
There is beauty in the creative work of man,
Beauty in true friendship.
And immeasurable beauty in love.
All these things,
To delight us in this world.

Carey’s Castle

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Carey’s Castle, Clonmel in Co. Tipperary
Irish Landscape Photography : Nigel Borrington

Carey’s Castle rests in a woodland setting near Clonmel in Co. Tipperary, the Glenary River running past the castle and adding to a very peaceful atmosphere here. A walk of around 500m down a wonderful woodland trail is well worth the effort when the trees part and Carey’s Castle appears before your eyes.

The Castle was built sometime during the 1800s by the Carey family who live locally, they were schoolmasters in the area. A mixture of architectural styles exist through out the grounds, including Romanesque and Gothic windows, Gothic arches, a Celtic round tower and a Norman Keep, which all adds up to make a beautiful building in a wonderful location.

The Castle and it grounds were occupied by monks at one stage and the remains of and older walled garden exist at the back of the Castle in the woods.

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Photo restoration

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Restoring the past

During last week I was working on some only Family albums and wanted to share this image of two family dogs taken way back in the 1920’s in America.

The first image is of the photograph in its current condition and the second after I have spend some time restoring it to the best possible condition I can achieve while keeping the image looking very natural for its age.

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The fishing boats of Galway bay (Image gallery)

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Fishing boats at Galway bay, county Galway
Irish Landscape Photography : Nigel Borrington

The landscape around Galway bay is one of the most beautiful in Ireland , offering long walks along sandy beach’s and scenic fishing bays.

The photographs below are from such a walk I took about two years ago during an Easter holiday in the area.

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It the weekend so why not ….

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The Burren, County Clare
Irish Landscape Photography : Nigel Borrington

Its a winters weekend, so why not get outside and go for a walk , find some new things to look at.

Some wonderful views, roads and even the walls.

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Far away lake , Poem by: Beckian Fritz Goldberg

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Irish Landscape Photography : Nigel Borrington

Far away lake

By, Beckian Fritz Goldberg

We can’t get there
by road, by rope, by
wing

by time—
though time would be the way

by boat
by please please

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time would be the way

then the reed-quiver
a cloud of gnats
mumbling its hypnotic suggestion

by sleep, sleep
until you say
lift my elbow straighten
my legs

And I
straightened you in this life
like flowers

but the little water
there was
went to air
where it came from

And all my love for you
came back—
you couldn’t take it where
you were going

you’d get halfway there
and then you’d drift
arms by your side

like a clock
plucked…

The Sea Of Time, Poem by Robert Crawford

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Images of the Waterford coast.
Infra-red photography
Irish landscape photography : Nigel Borrington

The Sea Of Time.

by Robert Crawford

On that strange sea
Where Man’s bark moves as toward eternity,
What sails put forth that are not seen again!
So joyous it may be, or in pain,

The mariner doth drive still on and on
Beneath no mortal star,
And to no mortal port — as one
Who may but anchor somewhere so afar,

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Not himself wrecks if he shall reach no more
In that tremendous sea another shore:
He is so like a wave himself at last,

He would toss through the future as the past —
But tethered as a whale is to a wave,
So he might still the one life have
Through all the changes that may be
On that tremendous sea!

Five images from the Comeragh Mountains.

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Comeragh mountains, County Waterford
Irish Landscape photography : Nigel Borrington

Five images from the Comeragh Mountains

Just a mini gallery of black and white images taken in and around the Comeragh mountains, during the winter months last year.

This coming year I will continue to capture this wild place. some how the winter feels very much at home in these mountains.

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