THERE IT IS!

An in-joke that's so "in" it's become completely inbred.

Heron

Can't believe how close I got to this fella. They're usually so nervous.
Shame I didn't capitalise on the opportunity and get some good photos. ...just okay photos, as befitting the brief of this blog.

Quay

It feels strange to find myself making a kind of defence for industrialism. In fact, I'm not really making a general defence of heavy industry, one look at China and India would blow any argument away but I'm concerned with this place.
Dundalk is turning into a hole of pretence and I'm sure in my lifetime, this quay will be shut down. The slack heaps, the silos and the cranes will be replaced by huge, unspeakably boring apartments that will lie empty just like every other new building and the town will deny it's industrial past.
I post this on the same weekend I found out that the forest near my house where I did my teenaging has been completely removed and is now a barren plot of land. The good news is, it seems it will be a park/recreation space. I hope that's true.

..If anybody tears down the windmill, I think I'll kill them :)
I should take some photos of that soon, actually.

Crow

One-legged Plover

Someday I hope to hear a Screaming Piha with my own ears. Until then, the sound of lots of tiny birds singing every morning will be more than adequate.

Spring

"Snow"

..my little geo-widget tells me that most of the visitors to this blog are from places who get snow more than once every 10 ten years so when I post these photos of "snow", please don't laugh. Just humour me, it's real snow to me and it's important.

BerryBranches

These are my favourite photos I've taken for ages and ages.

Magpie

Photos from work

Just enjoying light and colour .....rather than interesting subjects...

sorry.

Autumn Evenings

I haven't updated this in ages. In the last couple of months I've just been emptying my camera's memory card into my 'Unsorted' folder which took me two days to sort just before Christmas. I'd love to say that I won't let that happen again but I know, deep down, I'm a lazy bastard.
Here's some photos taken while walking a doggy.



and some photos of Autumn taken while waiting for a train home.

A moon

So long..

All too often, we take things for granted. I took this photo because somehow I knew that before too long it would be all I'd have to remember.
I was right.

Less than a month after I took this photo, Aidan shaved off this wonderous beard and all that was left was the somewhat dull and pointless human underneath..

Whenever I see him now, he has to strap a bunny or a cat to his face so I can at least pretend it's still there. He keeps muttering something about being allergic but it's hard to know what he's saying through his tears when he's curled up in a ball on the ground and turning a strange colour.

I miss my hairy friend.

Flight