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The Boat men of the river Suir

Fishing boat
river Suir
County Tipperary

Fishing on the River suir

The walk along the river Suir, County Tipperary is one of the best river walks in the south east of Ireland. It is currently undergoing an upgrade to a hard surface that will for the first time allow for both walkers and cyclists.

The river is used by many local people during the year but the fisher man are most probably it’s most common visitors, the River is renowned for its game angling, holding both salmon (Salmo salar) and brown trout (Salmo trutta).

I have taken many photographs of the fishermen here over the years alone with the boats they use for their fishing, these boats ( all made locally ) are used more like punts as the have a completely flat bottom and are moved along the river with a pole.

Fishing in Ireland : CLOCULLY TO CARRICK-ON-SUIR

The River Suir from Clocully to Carrick-on-Suir is a combination of deep pools, fast glides and varying widths and depths.

From Clocully to Ballydonagh, a consortium of private landowners control the angling, these are all private fisheries. This stretch also includes parts of the River Tar and River Nire, which contain good stocks of trout of up to 30 cm.

Fishing on the river Suir : Gallery

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Posted by nigel borrington | November 28, 2016 | Categories: Gallery, Irish rivers, Landscape, Nature, River Suir, Travel Locations | Tags: cycle paths, fighing boats, Fishing, Ireland, irish rivers, Nigel Borrington, river suir, Tipperary | 6 Comments

Friday Poetry : November Sunset – Poem by Steven Federle

Black Friday Sunset
Callan
Kilkenny
Ireland

About five o clock,
the warm November day
just stops.

Bright afternoon
slams into evening
not even pausing
for twilight.

Blue sky
dims quickly
to violet,

but over ragged black woods
the orange sun
lingers

Then suddenly bursts
into astonishing gold.

Blithely ascending
the bright crescent
claims the cool
velvet night.

Steven Federle

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Posted by nigel borrington | November 25, 2016 | Categories: Kilkenny Landscape images, Landscape, Poetry Gallery | Tags: Friday, Irish Landscapes, Landscape Photography, Nigel Borrington, November Sunset, poem, poems, poetry, Steven Federle | 2 Comments

A November weekend – Gallery ……

Images of November

The following images are just some of the many I have posted here of my blog since 2011, in the month of November. It is one of my most loved months each year for photography as the sun is always low in the sky and the cold , moody and foggy weather is drawing in…….

As its Friday and the weekend is very close I hope you have a great one 🙂 , if you get time to capture some images I hope you Enjoy yourselves 🙂 have a great time what ever you do !!!!

November Gallery

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Posted by nigel borrington | November 25, 2016 | Categories: Comment, Gallery, Images for the weekend, Landscape, Nature, Nigel Borrington, The Celtic year, Weather photography | Tags: Gallery, Ireland, Irish landscape photography, Nigel Borrington, November, The Seasons, weather photography | 1 Comment

Irish standing stones : Carrigeen, Nire Valley, County Waterford

Irish standing stones
Carrigeen
Nire Valley
County Waterford

Irish Standing stones : Carrigeen,

Carrigeen standing stone is among the best located stones in Ireland. It stands in a superb location at the top of the picturesque Nire valley from where there is magnificent panoramic views of the surrounding mountainous region. On the day this image was taken it was -2 degrees and the mountains had a thick covering of mist.

The stone stands some height, an impressive 2.5 meters and tapering to a sharp point. It stands solidly upright and is oriented in a WNW-ESE direction.

An interesting observation here, was when looking westwards, that the jagged crest of the stone seemed to align somewhat with the distant profile of the mountain ridge to the west. (see photo below). This may be just coincidental or was it of significance and could this jagged profile of the stone have survived through thousands of years?

Apart from this speculation, Carrigeen standing stone and its surroundings is a ‘must see’.

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Posted by nigel borrington | November 24, 2016 | Categories: Forgotten places, Gallery, History, irish history, Pagan, Travel Locations | Tags: Ireland, irish history, Landscape, Nigel Borrington, Nire valley, Pagan, Standing stones, Waterford | 8 Comments

County Kilkenny Landscapes, New digital art works

Landscape painting
Straw Bales
County Kilkenny, Ireland
Nigel Borrington

I am continuing to explore the world of digital painting using a Wacom studio art tablet and truly enjoying the creative experience it can offer.

I am planning in the new year to return to real paint and brushes but at the same time I have really taken to using digital media, I will continue to use it both to produce sketch work and finished drawings and painting. The power that digital painting offers to be creative and to be attached with modern social media is hard to escape 🙂 , the next step is to explore how to print onto more traditional papers and canvas in order to present finished work in a more traditional way.

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Posted by nigel borrington | November 23, 2016 | Categories: Art and craft work, Comment, Digital art work, Gallery, Landscape | Tags: art, digital painting, Ireland, irish landscape, Kilkenny, landscape painting, Nigel Borrington, painting, straw bales, wacom | 7 Comments

Winter is coming once again, a poem

Winter and the Crows
Slievenamon
County Tipperary
Nigel Borrington

Winter Is Coming once Again

The sky is filled with broken light,
The Sun is hidden by deep snow filled clouds,
There’s a chillness to the air,
I feel it everywhere,
All through the days and nights;
Winter is coming.

The Crows fly above Slievenamon
hunting harder then before, and the ground below
Is hard beneath wing and claw,
The trees stand bare of leaves and fruits,
And all around
Is still, Silent;
Winter is coming.

The sun will soon be gone,
Obscured by cloud,
The rivers and lakes begin to freeze,
The wind will bend the trees
Until they’re bowed
In supplication.
Winter is coming, once again.

Only the dead will feed hungry crows:
Mice, rabbits, sparrows.
The light fades from the Sun
Now darker days have come,
for the high crow, cold bites to the marrow,
And Winter is here.
Again.

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Posted by nigel borrington | November 22, 2016 | Categories: Gallery, Landscape, Nature, Nature and Wildlife, Poetry Gallery, Slievenamon | Tags: birds, crows, Ireland, Nature, Nigel Borrington, poem, poetry, seasons, Slievenamon, snow, winter | 8 Comments

My November Guest, Robert Frost

November rain
Nigel Borrington

My sorrow, when she’s here with me,
Thinks these dark days of autumn rain
Are beautiful as days can be;
She loves the bare, the withered tree;
She walks the sodden pasture lane.

Her pleasure will not let me stay.
She talks and I am fain to list:
She’s glad the birds are gone away,
She’s glad her simple worsted gray
Is silver now with clinging mist.

The desolate, deserted trees,
The faded earth, the heavy sky,
The beauties she so truly sees,
She thinks I have no eye for these,
And vexes me for reason why.

Not yesterday I learned to know
The love of bare November days
Before the coming of the snow,
But it were vain to tell her so,
And they are better for her praise.

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Posted by nigel borrington | November 21, 2016 | Categories: a closer look, Landscape, Nature, Nature and Wildlife, Poetry Gallery | Tags: End of Autumn, Landscape Photography, macro photography, My November Guest, Nigel Borrington, Rain drops, Robert Frost | 6 Comments

The first Snow of the Winter , Gallery

Irish Landscapes
Nire Valley
County Waterford
Nigel Borrington

This Morning many parts of Ireland awoke to the first Snows of the Winter, Snow in November while not unusual is early for Ireland. Maybe its a sign of the winter weather that’s ahead of us, in any-case I just had to get out this morning and capture as many images as I could 🙂

Here are just a few from an early morning walk through the Nire Valley , county Waterford …….

Nire Valley , County Waterford – the first Snows of Winter

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Posted by nigel borrington | November 18, 2016 | Categories: Gallery, Landscape, Travel Locations, Weather photography | Tags: Irish landscape photography, irish weather, Nier valley, Nigel Borrington, snow, Waterford, weather photography, winter | 18 Comments

Getting close to the Landscape, Macro Photography

Macro Photography
water droplets
Nigel Borrington

This winter I want to spent sometime getting in close with nature and the local landscape, with a macro lens. I feel that even though the summer and even Autumn are almost over there are still lots of subjects that will be fascinating when captured close up.

Water and rain drops are just such a subject and when we get more frost and ice I will spend lots of time outside in the early hours capturing as many images as possible.

The image above was taken with the help of an LED ring flash gun, you can see the lighting effects produced in each drop of water…..

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Posted by nigel borrington | November 16, 2016 | Categories: Gallery, Landscape, macro photography, Nature and Wildlife | Tags: Closeup photography, Kilkenny, Landscape, Macro Phtotography, Nature, Nigel Borrington, Rain drops, Water, winter | 13 Comments

Monday Poetry , The Cow – Robert Louis Stevenson

The friendly cow all red and white,
I love with all my heart:
She gives me cream with all her might,
To eat with apple-tart.

She wanders lowing here and there,
And yet she cannot stray,
All in the pleasant open air,
The pleasant light of day;

And blown by all the winds that pass
And wet with all the showers,
She walks among the meadow grass
And eats the meadow flowers.
Robert Louis Stevenson

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Posted by nigel borrington | November 14, 2016 | Categories: Nature and Wildlife, Poetry Gallery | Tags: cows, irish farming, Monday Poetry, Nigel Borrington, poem, poetry, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Cow | 2 Comments

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