Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/05/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nice image, Douglas.? I finally was able to view it all, with help from the arrow keys. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA On 5/18/2019 7:26 PM, Douglas Barry wrote: > Haven't been on here for a while as my middle son got married last > weekend, and things had to be done both before and after the wedding > which was up at the Loughcrew estate in Co. Meath. As this was the > first wedding of any of my children, I certainly learned the hard way > not to expect anything worthwhile photographically from myself! It's > definitely best left to the professionals who aren't emotionally > involved in the whole procedure. Even though I stayed way in the > background and only took the odd shot, I still made a series of very > amateur balls ups - too many to detail. > > We were blessed with a very sunny day , but the resulting harshly > contrasting light was terribly hard to manage, especially as the > wedding was held in the roofless and ruined old family church of St. > Oliver Plunkett in the estate. However, it was a non religious service > which meant we were pulled in to do various add-ons, like candle > lighting (with unfortunate wind accompaniment), tieing the couple > together with a crios, etc. - all of which were quite involving and > didn't exactly mesh with photographic concentration. I should have > just relied on my iPhone for the odd shot, but instead brought my Fuji > X100S and Sony A7ii and a few lenses. > > We stayed at the estate which has been in the hands of the Naper > family since the 17th century when Oliver Cromwell dispossessed the > original owners the Plunketts. Slightly later, the English had the > Plunkett's son Oliver - a catholic bishop - hung, drawn, and quartered > following Titus Oates's imaginary Popish Plot: he was the last > catholic martyr in England. While the estate is interesting enough, it > also lies at the foot of the Sliabh na Caillaigh mountains which are > crowned with a number of fascinating megalithic remains, including > Cairn T on Carrnbane East, which go back over 5,000 years. Cairn T is > a passage tomb and the passage is aligned so that light strikes the > decorated backstone through the narrow passage at sunrise on the > spring and autumn equinoxes. Builders were astronomers back then. > > Anyway, I climbed Carnbane East the day after the wedding, and here's > a picture of Cairn T with my new daughter in law and some of her > visiting French relatives - her mother is French - standing on top of > the massive tumulus. The top of the tomb is the highest point in Co. > Meath but that didn't deter her 80 year old grandmother. It was taken > with the Sony and a f1.8 55mm Zeiss and the large size posted is very > large to show detail. BTW the climb and the descent proved I > definitely need new knees, but my French improved as her relatives > have little English. > > http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Cairn+T+DSC04262.jpg.html > > > Au revoir > > Douglas > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >