The pics have been taken in the immediate vicinity of
Glendalough in the Wicklow mountains, just 40 miles south of Dublin.
This pic was shot actually in Glenmalure, a
valley a few miles south of Glendalough valley, and parallel to it. I have been
told repeatedly I should have taken a vertical pose, instead of a landscape. So
here is the result: This pic just comes to show grass does grow under trees,
something which the French would always find peculiar.
Just a mile
west of Glendalough's old monastery, the upper lake (the southeastern part.
looking southwest).
Taken earlier on in the
year. Too much riples for a clear reflection, but the vertical pose gives
interesting results.
Shot from the same spot, looking west.
Same spot
and orientation, only on a Sunnier day.
Same idea, this time
with a Furzy foreground.
Woodland in the vicinity of the eastern shore.
St Kevin's
waterfall about a 100 yards south.
The southeast par of
the lake, taken from the north shore.
The south ridge
overlooking the upper lake, taken from the north shore.
The western end of the
lake, taken from the north shore
The upper lake, looking
eastwards.
Taken from the same spot, looking westwards. I almost
killed myself falling in the cascade there. I'll remember not to walk on mossy
rocks.
This pic doesn't even remotely render justice to the
beauty of the furze in the surroundings. That's what happens when you forget
you left a grey filer on! I thought it would make the sky lok more blue...
Tough.
The little pointed mountain on
the horizon is called the "Great Sugar Loaf". Cos there's a smaller
one! Personally I prefer to refer to it as Ireland's
only Pyramid. Millions of years old!! So these Egyptians in Discovery Channel
can just shut up!
This pic
gives an almost accurate sense of how intensely yellow the furze can be. It's
also damn thorny if you ask me. But I didn't have to uproot this one for the
pic. It was growing there naturally. Behind barbed wire....
Glenmacnass Waterfall, 5
miles north of Lough Dan, 15 miles north of Glendalough. Very slippery. I found
a pair of Vuarnet shades on the edge there. Its owner must have enjoyed the ride down with his bare eyes...
