Posts Tagged ‘rocks’
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)
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)
Fat Old Willow at Lough Na Fooey…a new plate drying
October 31, 2017
Lough Na Fooey (‘Lake of the winnowing winds’) is a small glacial valley lake ringed by steep sides just over the Partry mountains on the far end of Lough Mask. The north east side is Mayo, the south west Galway. Its western end gets the Devil’s Mother mountain, a sandy beach, a sandy bottom, and […]
2017 | In progress PRINT WORK | Media: printmaking | Tags: aluminium, autumn, carborundum, drypoint, lake, Lough Na Fooey, original print, plate, PVA, rocks, stage, step, willowComments (0)
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)
This side of the last pond, a new plate in progress
December 4, 2016
This side of the last pond a new version of the last rock pool on the loop walk, cut off at its Lough Mask end by a line of birch trees and scrub, and cut into the limestone pavement. Clicking on the thumbnails will enlarge them…
2016 | In progress PRINT WORK | Media: printmaking | Tags: aluminium, birch, branches, drypoint, lake, leaf, limestone, lough mask, original print, plate, pond, pool, process, rocks, trees, winterComments (2)
November on the Lough Mask shoreline
November 28, 2016
This early winter month November on Lough Mask has been misty, soft and cuddly, and hard as nails, steel-blue freezing
2016 | Blog PHOTOS | Media: photograph | Tags: black, blue, colour, green, lake, light, limestone, lough mask, monochrome, mountains, rain, reflection, rocks, silver, trees, winterComments (0)
Plovers on the Rocks
September 27, 2016
A band of Plovers (well, a congregation, correctly) sitting in a cave.. ok, standing on the near shore rocks, looking out into a heavy mist muffling Lough Mask. The key to this large 90cm x 60cm Plover plate will be printing a magnificent misty sky. I haven’t discovered how to print a magnificent misty sky..but […]
2016 | In progress PRINT WORK | Media: printmaking | Tags: aluminium, birds, carborundum, drypoint, lake, light, lough mask, mist, plate, plovers, process, reflection, rocks, silenceComments (1)
summer to the solstice
June 27, 2016
The first half of summer, to the solstice midpoint; lots of cloud, lots of rain, lots of growth, lots of midge swarms, all damp and dreary – making those bursts of light very exciting!….
2016 | Blog PHOTOS | Media: photograph | Tags: colour, hawthorn, hedgerow, lake, light, limestone, lough mask, rain, reflection, rocks, summer, wildflower, woodsComments (0)
Spring start, more dither than bounce
April 17, 2016
Spring taking it easy this year; a slow unfolding from the floods, sun and rain and rain and hail and snow and rain and glitter-sun…unhurried, snail-like dawdling. Its still cold but the birds are completely thrilled with themselves roundabouts this side of Lough Mask …………………click on the thumbnails to enlarge