Saturday pic of the week (1)
Two for the price of one this weekend.
The one above comes courtesy of Liam Ó Cuinn. It’s a picture of Glenelly valley, taken in 2015 as he and his wife travelled west from Draperstown. ” If I had the money this is where I would build my holiday home. This was an Irish-speaking area up until the 1950s. It’s a simple photograph of a fine panorama”.
Saturday pic of the week (2)
The Hare photograph was taken (as was last week’s) by Antrim Lens, a truly gifted photographer. “It was taken in June this year in a field at the side of my house.” Personally I love the warm background of grass and buttercups, and particularly the way he’s caught the hare in full alert mode, poised if necessary for flight. This is an Irish hare, he tells me, unique to Ireland.
(Footnote: Nowadays more than ever, everyone has an abundance of photographs, many new, some old. Do have a hoke through them and see if there’s one you’d like to share with us. It’s a wonderful way to let others in on a brief still moment in the river of time.)
Saturday pic of the week (3)
OK, it’s Sunday but I thought I’d squeeze in this lovely photograph taken by Colm Reavey. It was taken last week (with a phone) and features Strangford Lough at Ringhaddy.
“It was mid morning on 24 August and the mist was drifting in and out. I was working in the area and took a snap with my iPhone. It’s part of my job that I get access to areas others don’t, but when I looked back on this photograph I was struck by the beauty and what a unbelievably lucky bollocks I am!!”
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Lovely , Jude .I especially like the hare .They are amazing creatures to watch in action…like a cross between a little deer and a short-tailed kangaroo.The colours are beautiful too.
TOTALLY agree, PK – a pic is worth, etc…
Many thanks, Paddykool
Hare picture beautiful. That’s what it is to have a long lens and a good camera.
Many thanks, fiosrach. Camera is a Nikon D5200 with a 55-300mm lens but when I’m in the field I wear a Ghillie suit (Google it) and that helps me get very close to most wildlife.
Antrim Lens is a wonderfully keen observer of wildlife. He lives near Lough Neagh and it’s amazing how much he sees.
Many thanks, Annie and the cheque’s in the post.
How does AL get him to pose for the pic?
You claim he’s an Irish hare – hope he has his passport before Brexit happens!
He’s a she and I knew her leveret was hiding in the long grass and that she would return to feed it. That photo required me to get into position at the edge of the long grass and lie on my belly for 3 hours, as for getting her to pose, she was just giving a good look around checking for danger just before she entered the long grass to feed her young.
the 1s on rathlin island are the immigrants.
hares nice,next to the peas n gravy.
Another incisive contribution from our Billy.
have you never tasted them,quite nice
Great photo.
Plural.
As one’s eyesight is poorly even at the worst of times, Esteemed Blogmeister, still, one was under the impression that this deftly trapped snap (2) was taken at Kalgoorlie or even Coolgardie itself.
Till it dawned on one, despite its being in the afternoon, that it was that most dreektool of long-eared herbivores one was actually looking at: a hare.
Which prompted one to put one’s thinking if not lens’ cap on one’s sparsely haired head.
The Leprechaun for hare is ‘giorria’ which is actually a combination of two words (apologies for belabouring the point, Gregser):
-‘gearr’ and ‘fia’. Meaning a ‘diminuitive deer’.
Hmmm.
One wonders if the Leprechaun had actually suffered the fate of other Irish aboriginals and been deported Downunder would their name for a hare be now otherwise?
The reason why the Leprechaun did manage to escape Deportation was because of his strict adherence to the basic life-style practice, consisting of:
-Hare one minute, gone the next.
Supposing though they had been deported Downunder would their word for hare be now:
-giorroo ?