Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/05/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That?s is really sharp Douglas! Lluis > El 19 maig 2019, a les 2:26, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> va escriure: > > 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