Stream

Another one while I'm here albeit with a bit of colour this time. This one was taken back in April, 2007 in my dad's back garden. Yeah he has a stream running through it. This was the first time I'd ever used a tripod which was essential seeing as it's a 3.2 second exposure.

The Poison Glen, Donegal

To very different views of the same area. The first is looking across at the Poison Glen from most of the way up Mt Errigal and the other is of a small stream on the side of Mt Errigal. There's a lot of great stories of how the Poison Glen was so named but in I'm told it's just another dodgy Anglicisation of an Irish place name and has nothing to do with the area being poisoned. Still it's a stunning area that should be visited if you get the chance.


(This looks way more impressive viewed larger.)

Bull Island, Dublin

Seeing as I'm not up to much at the moment I thought I'd stick up another post even if the photos do happen to be from last summer. They were taken around Bull Island just North of Dublin City.







They were all shot with the 50mm 1.8 lens and treated in photoshop using the alien skin plug in which I swear by for black and white stuff. For full details you can click on the picture and check the more properties feature on flickr.

Sexman III

This was taken when these guys were known as Sexman 4. The guys play some sorta deranged punky acoustic stuff. I reckon Decky is one of the best front men around and the other two are legends in their own right as well. As usual you can hear their stuff on myspace.

"Batter your leaders" is the highlight for me.

Ended and Bacchus

Some pics of two great bands in the world of Irish hardcore. Ended are fairly straight up hardcore while Bacchus are more in the epic crust vein. You can check out their myspaces: Bacchus ; Ended.

First time taking gig pictures with my 17-35mm lens, really happy with it so far.

Ended.




Bacchus.

Captain A - New Year's Tide

Here's the the first of what I hear is gonna be monthly instalments from the multi-talented Captain A (aka Eoghan and various collaborators). In his own words: "Captain A is topical electro-psychedelic folk music carved out of the expansive boglands and beaches of donegal, on the north-left coast of Ireland."

As well as Captain A, he also runs the Angel Electric studios in Letterkenny(where Zafaranchos did our recordings) and plays bass in Aurel and the Evangelists. A busy man. You can download the albums for free from the myspace.




Lyrics:

ice cream and dew and the fresh air and views
the pastel palisades and the buckets and the spades
the footsteps on the crumbling peer and tiny storns of sand
and the postcard sent without a word

no one lives in these coastal towns
but the ghosts of you and me
who've come to wet their feet
to walk out in the new years tide
the violent northern brew
to cleanse them of their silent summer blues

Chords:

verse: F

chorus: Bb / C / F / Dm / Bb / C / F


There's also a bunch of collaborations between us two in the works, but more about that some other time.

Lights

I'm determined to be a bit less sporadic with the posts so here's a random 13 second exposure of a country road at night.