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Sunday evening Poem

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Fuji film x100
Kilkenny landscape view
Irish landscape photography : Nigel Borrington

Today is the tomorrow

By Neol Cronin

Always on the horizon but never here,
Travelling towards, but never near,
Never sure of what’s in store
No matter what, we will always want more.

Tomorrow’s a day, full of great hope,
Because maybe today, we just cannot cope.
Tomorrow is the day, to us no-one can give.
Tomorrow is the day, we will never live.

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Our being is the present, the here and now.
Our hope – is tomorrow, somewhere, somehow
Tomorrow’s the pipedream, we have today
Today is the tomorrow, we sought yesterday.

Posted by  |  October 13, 2013 | Categories: Gallery, Kilkenny Landscape images, kilkenny photography, Landscape, Nature and Wildlife, Poetry Gallery | Tags: , , , , , , , , | 7 Comments

Its the weekend so….

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All images taken using a Nikon D300
Lough Derg Way, Trail walk, County Limerick
Irish Landscape Photography : Nigel Borrington

Its the weekend so why not find a long country trail to walk, take some time to sit down a look at the views.

Clear your mind and relax……

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Posted by  |  October 12, 2013 | Categories: Images for the weekend, Landscape, Nature and Wildlife, Travel Locations | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | 11 Comments

An afternoon at Rosskerrig, Ahakista

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All images using a nikon D300
Rosskerrig, Ahakista, West cork, Ireland
Irish landscape Photography

Rosskerrig, Ahakista is on the Sheepshead peninsular in county West Cork.

Its a wonderful location for an Irish holiday and perfect for landscape images of the coast line alone both sides of the Atlantic bay. It was a very warm but hazy afternoon around Easter time, the light from the sun was oddly very low even though it was still only around 3pm.

For these images I had the camera on a tripod and used a polarising filter.

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Posted by  |  October 11, 2013 | Categories: Gallery, Landscape, Travel Locations | Tags: , , , , , , , , | 11 Comments

Rosslare Habour, county wexford, a week on the beach

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All images taken with a Nikon D300
A week on Rosslare beach, county wexford
Irish landscape photography : Nigel Borrington

Rosslare Holiday Resort is located in the South east of Wexford and has some of the best hours of sunshine in Ireland, Along with having one of Ireland’s small but best used ferry ports it is also visited by many people for holidays or day trips to the wonderful beach.

We stayed here back in 2008 for a wonderful week and walked ourselves and Molly our Golden retriever along the beach each day. She made many new friends with people and dogs during her time here, managing to get them to entertain her in the sea for hours.

I really enjoyed watching so many people enjoy themselves here, walking along the beach, swimming, and exercising themselves and there dogs.

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Posted by  |  October 11, 2013 | Categories: Gallery, Landscape, Travel Locations | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | 17 Comments

A connection from the hill tops.

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Communications tower, Windgap woods, country Kilkenny
Irish Landscape photography : Nigel Borrington

The woods at Windgap, County Kilkenny, sit above the valley we live in. A walk through the woods offers some wonderful views of the Landscape below.

The wood is also the home to the local communications tower, high in the woodlands it is hard to reach by car and one evening last week I noticed the service people driving through the fields to get to the building below the tower.

I feel that the contrast between the landscape and this tower is what I really hope to show here, but of course with out it I would not be able to show you these images?

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Posted by  |  October 10, 2013 | Categories: Gallery, Landscape, Nature and Wildlife | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | 12 Comments

Now that Autumn has begun (Two Autumn Poems)

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Autumn colours in the Landscape
Landscape Photography : Nigel Borrington

Autumn

By : Dorian Petersen Potter

Autumn comes singing in
Displaying her treasures’ galore.
So prettily dressed she grins
Spreading more beauty than before

She transforms the trees one by one,
She paints their leaves with new hues.
There’s a different kind of fun,
Now that Autumn has begun

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There’s a magic in the air,
In the smells and all the colors.
Cool breeze plays with my hair,
While her beauty I just stare!

Autumn has come back at my door,
What a sight! It’s the season I adore

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Amber Glow

By : Wesley Mincin

Red and yellow painted leaves
hang idly within the trees
They break and sail along the breeze
As fires of Autumn’s time

They dance and surf upon the ground
Overlap each other with ruffling sound
A setting I am glad I found
As fires of Autumn’s time

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Like fires of the Autumn season
they leap and dance without a reason
A factor of Autumns many seasons
As fires of Autumn’s time’

The grey clouds break, the sun appears
The dancing leaves appear to sere
These flames its kept for many years
As fires of Autumn’s time

Posted by  |  October 9, 2013 | Categories: Gallery, Landscape, Nature and Wildlife, Poetry Gallery, The Celtic year | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | 11 Comments

Classic Irish homes

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Images take using a Nikon D7000
Classic Irish Home, County Tipperary
Irish landscape photography : Nigel Borrington

When I first came to live in Ireland, one thing I really noticed what the different architecture around the country.

While many homes in both Ireland and main land Europe can and do look the same, I started wondering what the classical Irish house looked like, Well this house sitting on the borders of county Tipperary and Kilkenny to myself is it.

Rectangular with it’s five windows at the front and an arched red front door, this house is so classically Irish in nature that I would now see it as the classic 1900’s Irish home.

These houses could both be a Farm house with the Farm yard at the back or a town house sitting with a garden at the back and the street at the front.

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Posted by  |  October 9, 2013 | Categories: Comment, Down on the farm, Gallery, Kilkenny Landscape images, kilkenny photography, Kilkenny Street photography, Landscape | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | 14 Comments

Wild Mushrooms in the Irish woodlands.

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All images using a Fujifilm X100
Autumn Mushrooms at Woodstock, County Kilkenny
Irish Nature and landscape photography : Nigel Borrington

On Saturday while walking through the woodlands above the River Barrow, Woodstock, Inistioge in county Kilkenny. At the back of a farm yard I came across these Mushrooms growing in the ground of the woodland.

At this time of year just as the Autumn is taking a hold the local woodlands come to life with all kinds of Mushrooms, I managed to get the below pictures and intend to go hunting for more during the week and next weekend.

The Image above is of Shaggy ink cap (Coprinus comatus) Mushrooms and below are Sulphur Tuft (Hypholoma fasciculare) mushrooms .

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Posted by  |  October 8, 2013 | Categories: Down on the farm, Gallery, Landscape, Nature and Wildlife, Travel Locations | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | 8 Comments

Irish landscape photography

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All images taken using a, Fujifilm x100
The black and white Farming landscape of the woodstock estate, county Kilkenny
Irish landscape photography : Nigel Borrington

The Following images are from the wonderful Rural landscape of the Woodstock farming estate, above the river Barrow at Inistioge, county Kilkenny.

Taken last Saturday afternoon, while walking in the area.

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Posted by  |  October 8, 2013 | Categories: Down on the farm, Gallery, Kilkenny Landscape images, kilkenny photography, Landscape, Travel Locations | Tags: , , , , , , , | 28 Comments

My Land

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Fujifilm X100
The Landscape of county Kilkenny, Ireland
Irish Landscape Photography : Nigel Borrington

My Land

By Thomas Davis

She is a rich and rare land;
Oh! she’s a fresh and fair land;
She is a dear and rare land–
This native land of mine.

No men than her’s are braver–
Her women’s hearts ne’er waver;
I’d freely die to save her,
And think my lot divine.

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She’s not a dull or cold land;
No! she’s a warm and bold land;
Oh! she’s a true and old land–
This native land of mine.

Could beauty ever guard her,
And virtue still reward her,
No foe would cross her border–
No friend within it pine!

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Oh! she’s a fresh and fair land;
Oh! she’s a true and rare land;
Yes! she’s a rare and fair land–
This native land of mine.

Posted by  |  October 7, 2013 | Categories: Gallery, Kilkenny Landscape images, kilkenny photography, Landscape, Poetry Gallery, Travel Locations | Tags: , , , , , , , | 10 Comments