North Atlantic Skyline » morning http://johnsmyth.ie/blog Despatches from the West of Ireland. Tue, 22 May 2012 23:44:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Long Walk in the morning http://johnsmyth.ie/blog/2012/01/10/long-walk-in-the-morning/ http://johnsmyth.ie/blog/2012/01/10/long-walk-in-the-morning/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:32:05 +0000 John Smyth http://johnsmyth.ie/blog/?p=3825 Long Walk in the morning

]]> http://johnsmyth.ie/blog/2012/01/10/long-walk-in-the-morning/feed/ 4 The Morning Fox http://johnsmyth.ie/blog/2011/06/04/the-morning-fox/ http://johnsmyth.ie/blog/2011/06/04/the-morning-fox/#comments Sat, 04 Jun 2011 10:10:01 +0000 John Smyth http://johnsmyth.ie/blog/?p=3564 Fox in Spiddal

I was driving along the coast road this morning when I spotted this fox snuffling something in a field. I pulled in and sneaked back. This picture was taken when the fox was looking directly at me (I was behind a wall but my head and shoulders were visible to him) – he had heard the click of the camera shutter but he couldn’t quite make out what he was looking at. Of course, a herd of bullocks at the far side of the field had ‘made’ me almost as soon as I approached, so in terms of cunning, it was a case of : Cattle > John > Fox – at least I was ahead of the fox.

The picture looks a bit grainy because it was taken at 5.15 am and the expected sunshine of sunrise was hidden behind a blanket of all-too-familiar Galway cloud [it was taken with a Canon 5D set to ISO 1250]. Even now, it is very overcast in the city – so much for the heatwave.

]]> http://johnsmyth.ie/blog/2011/06/04/the-morning-fox/feed/ 0 Sunrise at Lackavrea, Part I http://johnsmyth.ie/blog/2010/10/18/sunrise-at-lackavrea-part-i/ http://johnsmyth.ie/blog/2010/10/18/sunrise-at-lackavrea-part-i/#comments Sun, 17 Oct 2010 23:10:13 +0000 John Smyth http://johnsmyth.ie/blog/?p=3115 Sunrise at Lackavrea, part II
If you were anywhere between Galway City and Maam Cross last Tuesday morning, all you would have seen was …very little, as a wall of fog billowed off Lough Corrib. West of Maam Cross, it was clear, as a star-filled night sky gave way to the clear blue of morning.  Driving towards Maam Bridge from the west, the fog began to blow west from the lake towards the sea – and around Lackavrea, the hill that overlooks the lake’s western edge.

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The little park at Woodquay in Galway city, pictured on a very cold and foggy Saturday morning in February this year.

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