Ireland Vignettes – more from Ireland
Some favorites below. But you can also see a slide show with more images here
Kilkenny at night
Dublin
Dublin
Temple Bar, Dublin
Climbing up Sugarloaf Mountain is a Saint Stephen’s Day tradition for many families in Wicklow County, Ireland, despite the ice and freezing temperatures. Sugarloaf is not the highest peak in Ireland but it holds some of of the most majestic views and ona clear day one can see as far as the city of Dublin.
National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Elko 2010
Friday Night Dance
Baxter Black, Cowboy Poet and Large Animal Veterinarian and Liz Masterson, Western Singer play around backstage before their performances at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering.
Cowboy Poet Wally McRae.
Young yodelers backstage. Cora Wood, left and Brigid Reedy after giving a yodeling workshop with Liz Masterson and Wylie Gustafson of Wylie and the Wild West who is known as the original Yahoo.com yodeler.
Cowboy Poet Randy Rieman
Pioneer Saloon at the Western Folklife Center, Thursday morning.
Ramblin Jack Elliott backstage before his performance Wednesday night.
for more on the Gathering you can go to www.westernfolklife.org
More to post when I get a chance.
Also check out this blog for more: Welcome to the Western Folklife Center
Icy Ireland
So my Macbook Pro battery is fried and I have slow and limited access to the internet. Done very little documentary work but was just inspired by my friend Jim Sugar and a program on his photography work from 1969 in Ireland that was featured on the cover of a National Geographic. He went back and did a follow up visit with the subjects of his photos to see where are they now – very well done. It’s on RTE. I can’t find the actual link on the connection I m on but it is somewhere on www.rte.ie.
My new camera RAW files can’t seem to be opened by my CS3 or Lightroom v.2 so I can’t open anything I shot the first part of my trip. Do not have the bandwith to do an internet research on a solution nor download a plug in even if I knew where to find the plug in. Open to suggestions!!
The weather has been record cold. One friend just told me she heard it was the coldest its been in 50 years for this time of year in Ireland. It’s been 2 weeks of subzero temps (Celsius) and frozen ice all over all the roadways making travel on anything beyond the main motorways difficult, so my sightseeing has been limited to cities and anything near to Greystones, where I am staying. Just came back from a few days in Galway City for my birthday.
If you find yourself in Galway City check out Conley’s for Seafood. Local oysters, smoked salmon, calamari, mussels. One of the best meals of my life. Owner is terrific.
Meanwhile pics from the last few days of 2009. One of the raging sea here in Greystones, Wicklow County and one from Kilkenny County.
Clips
I am in the process of preparing images to update my galleries to include some of my magazine clips. This spread just ran in the print version of Le Monde 2 (Le Monde’s weekly magazine). The copyright of the pages is all theirs. I’d link if I could find the link to the magazine piece online. The story was on Biohackers, Do it yourself (DIY) bio-engineers. The story was written by the lovely Yves Eudes.
