Posts Tagged ‘lough mask’
My Favourite Rock on the Lough Mask shoreline
June 23, 2018
Lough Mask is around 8,500 hectares in area, that’s about 83km² or 10 miles long by 4 miles wide depending on how you like your sizings. It is the sixth largest lake in the country and with a maximum depth of 58 m it is one of the deepest. Its shoreline is limestone pavement, great […]
2018 | Blog PHOTOS | Media: photograph | Tags: lake, lakeshore, limestone, lough mask, rocks, sandstone, shoreline, stoneComments (2)
Seagull Island with stripes and Plovers
May 21, 2018
Seagull Island, stripes and Plovers Late Spring is when Seagull Island, a barren stony finger of rock, resurfaces and the Plovers make a flying visit…A new plate in progress, A two plate print to add an extra stripe and texture
2018 | In progress PRINT WORK | Media: printmaking | Tags: aluminium, birds, calm, carborundum, drypoint, lake, light, lough mask, mountains, plate, plovers, process, reflection, seagulls, silenceComments (0)
wintry spring lake view
March 25, 2018
A few days of this year’s wintry spring lake view, Lough Mask nudies..
2018 | Blog PHOTOS | Media: photograph | Tags: branches, colour, flood, lake, light, lough mask, mist, springComments (2)
Spring Snow, the Beast from the East
March 7, 2018
Lough Mask got a whisker brush from The Beast From the East, no great biting storm Emma or fierce snow storms. But it did get very cold and these last couple of days of tail end melting give modest bits of excitement….even if we didnt get within a snowball of a snowman. BooHiss!
2018 | Blog PHOTOS | Media: photograph, photography | Tags: birds, branches, colour, ice, lake, lichen, lough mask, moss, mountains, robin, scrub, silence, sleet, snow, spring, willow, winterComments (2)
This morning light
February 6, 2018
this morning light…just before this mid-morning’s nose-biting grey sleet storm blur – good ‘ol February
2018 | Blog PHOTOS | Media: photograph | Tags: colour, flood, hedgerow, lake, light, limestone, lough mask, morning, rock, rocks, scrub, silence, spring, trees, winter, woodsComments (2)
Sun along the January lake shore scrub
January 28, 2018
winter sun is incredibly exciting – there’s not much else going on and its low slung shots of light blast into parts usually humdrum and unstarry..
2018 | Blog PHOTOS | Media: photograph | Tags: branches, briar, colour, frost, green, hedgerow, lake, leaf, light, lough mask, moss, reflection, rocks, rosehip, scrub, silence, tree, winter, woodsComments (0)
Street food and pavement art
September 23, 2017
shellfish snacks, mosaics, limestone pavement
2017 | Blog PHOTOS | Media: photograph | Tags: colour, crayfish, lake, limestone, limestone pavement, lough mask, pavement, rock, shellfishComments (0)
That was the summer down at the lake
September 11, 2017
Summer 2017, apparently it was wetter, colder, soggier, duller than normal. It felt like the quickest one on record anyway. On the good news front, cooler, damper weather gave lusher greener growth on the lake shore – that thin layer of soil can dry out very rapidly.
2017 | Blog PHOTOS | Media: photograph | Tags: burnet rose, catkins, glisten, glitter, grasses, harebells, lake, lakeshore, light, lough mask, mist, rock, rock rose, sedum, summer, sun, wildflower, willowComments (2)
Fertilisation: my guess…
June 22, 2017
Those little egg cups are lined with silt, pooled with water and colonised by algae – the gulls and cormorants splash great dollops, hare and deer sprinkle a few pellets, the wind desiccates and whips up a concoction then off it goes…!
2017 | Blog PHOTOS | Media: photograph | Tags: birds, ferlilisation, fertilization, fishbones, flood, grasses, lake, limestone, lough mask, manure, rain, renewal, rocks, scrub, sedum, seed, shellfish, stonecrop, wildflowerComments (2)
Spring Lake
May 4, 2017
Lough Mask is sinking back slowly leaving a creamy-grey sediment on seemingly barren rock. The summer shoreline has been under lake water for months. By March it started to reappear, then drowned a second time under inevitable Spring rains. The levels have dropped back in April and the new profile is taking shape. No great […]