A walk to the clouds.

I walked to the clouds today.

I've done this before but today was different.

I won''t take this walk many more times as I am

leaving this place.

We are leaving this place. Something

of us is staying behind, I know.

I feel that what that is, will be here for a long time.

It's in the water, the rocks, the ferns and moss.

The pub,the lane, the house and the village.

We are leaving.

Will we be gone, I think, yes we will.

Will ye miss us? Yes I think. I know.

Will we be in the wind, the sun, the grass, the turf.

I believe ,

We will.

In the bay, the wave, the day.

Will we be with you in the way,

The way we want to be ?

I know, That

I will be with you in the way that I can.

This I want,

To stay in this place, Ireland.

I stay.

The photographer as a young man. Navy flier 2nd class E J Carr. Cam Ranh Bay

South Viet Nam 1970.

As I was driving along the bay today on the way home from a small

shopping trip, the light was just beautiful. Not warm , or cool in anyway but

soft. Soft is used in conversation to qualify many things. The rain, the wind, and

I choose it to define the light. These images are a study, and maybe a new collection.

I couldn't resist the mixture of aqua, turquoise and greens.

This is the cover of a book using an image of mine created in Cornwall, England.
We were on a holiday for a spring break, staying in a 200 yr. old miners cottage in
Lower Boscaswell, on the north side of the Cornwall peninsula. The light for this
photograph comes from the only window in the cottage (facing away from the sea, on
the south side of the cottage). This book is published by NYU and the title is
self explanatory.

No Salmon Farm in Dunmanus Bay, co. Cork, Ireland.

At this time there exists a threat to the beauty and wild character of Dunmanus Bay in Co. Cork, Ireland. A commercial concern is proposing a Salmon Farm to be placed in the midst of one of the most beautiful and pristine locations in the southwest of Ireland. The pollution from the Farming alone is atrocious let alone the disturbing visual results of such a project. This video is created to help support the local population in moving against this ecological and tourism disaster.

Pizza for dinner.

pizza dough

olive oil

garlic

basil

olives stuffed with almonds chopped

sun dried tomato

onion

pesto

fresh tomato sauce

black pepper ground course

grated parmesan cheese

You decide on the proportions

bake 410 deg f. for 25 min

serve with salad and wine(red)

I am beginning to compile some images to use for a marketing push. I am beginning

to design a "Photo Workshop" that I would lead for aspiring photographers at the amateur level. The workshop would be offered as a learning experience in West Cork and Kerry. I would offer landscape/seascape event and also specifically a portrait

class. I have Ideas for some more sophisticated workshops involving other ares of photography as well. The image in this post is new-just created in the last week. I find it powerful and evocative. The subject is Sean Moriarity, an amateur photographer himself.

I sit here tonight after a day of sideways rain, wind, and the smell of a peat fire. Turf. The fire from turf is warm, fragrant, and lasting. Oh, it smokes quite a bit as well. It's well dark in Ireland at 6:30 pm,(half 6) but the days are growing longer. February 23rd and the daffodils will be breaking into bloom any day now. The fields around my village are beginning to come alive with spring even as the winds howl and the frost continues. This is the first spring since we have lived here and there has been so much frost in the mornings. "Not too usual out wescht" as they say in the west Cork accent. West is the last bit of peninsula to the west of my house in this village. The reason it's "not too usual" is because of the Gulf Stream moving up the globe and crashing into the western side of Ireland and the British Isles. The climate is rather temperate and is evident by the variety of palm tree that grows all around southwest Ireland. Looking out of my window to the view of mine, west is to the right. If you follow the road in front of my house to the right about 10km you come to its end, and the end of Ireland. The body of water I see every day from my window is Dunmanus Bay.
I live on the Sheepshead Peninsula in Co. Cork Ireland. The village is Kilcrohane and the townland is Faramanagh. Across the bay to the southwest is the next peninsula on the Isle of Green; The Mizen. The Mizen peninsula with Mizen head at the extreme western end and beyond that, the North Atlantic and eventually America. I have looked at this view from one point or another for the last 3 years. I have seen the weather come with gales and wind and waves. I've also seen it so warm and clear and calm that it might be French or Italian. I've felt at times like there would never be any reason to live anywhere else but right here. I also wondered how long I would feel that way.

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Life Magazine
07 Feb 2010

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Life Magazine
07 Feb 2010

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Life Magazine
07 Feb 2010