Category Archives: Photographs

Pictures online vs not

Photographs, Technology

The other day I found a pile of printer paper with photographs printed on each piece. I looked at the photos and thought, wow, these are good. Next to the pile was a painting that my daughter was doing for school and I remembered that she’d printed out some of our Ireland photos and chose one to use as a model for her painting.

I looked at the photos again and wondered if they were ones we’d taken in Ireland. I suspected that Clare decided to search for the images of Ireland — photographs by better photographers than we are.

I was mistaken. The photos I found were all taken by us — probably Clare to be exact. I’d either not looked at the photos carefully, or holding even a poorly printed photograph is better than viewing one a computer monitor.

Here’s one of the photos. I’ll post the others on other days. (can you tell I have little to say today?)

A cow near our cottage

(yep, it looks better on paper)

Fairyland

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Reenadinna Yew Wood
Reenadina Yew Wood ~ Killarney National Forest ~ Co. Kerry, Ireland

I just noticed, on my post editing interface I can insert photographs from Flickr.com — this is not a function on wordpress.com, so it is probably connected with a plugin I installed a long time ago and recently upgraded.

This is a photo of a stand of yew trees in one of the only ancient yew forests left in Europe. It is located within Killarney National Park and is one of the places I insisted on visiting. The magic you feel while surrounded by gnarled yews on mossy hills is very strong. Even folks who don’t believe in fairies come away with a little more understanding of the folks who do.