Why so few images posted from both Irelands and Scotland?

[RAY WILSON]

Scotland. The Holy Loch. A long time ago. Ektachrome. OM-1N, Zuiko 50mm f1.8. Aperture unrecorded. Film was developed onboard the submarine.

 

[Mark J]

Elgol, Skye (2012) - while everyone else was photographing the Cuillin !

 

[mono]

Beautiful website altogether, Folker!

Thank you also very much, Jonathan!
I´ll have a look at your site, too.

 

[Castrillo]

In Edinburg they have been angry... you should be more careful with your words.

 

[Vaughn]

Early June of this year I was able to visit my son in northern Wales and we drove up north and around for three weeks. Lots of time on the Isle of Skye. We got as far north as Loch Ewe, staying in Poolewe for a couple of nights at the inn...could have stayed a couple more. Took the Rolleicord...did okay. A different landscape and history that would take me much more time to get a visual handle on.

My father was in the US Merchant Marine Academy during WW2. He was lucky, his first ship as a cadet turned south from Iceland and headed to North Africa, then to the Pacific. He was then on a converted fast luxury liner from San Francisco to New Zealand with a cargo of Marines. He was lucky because many of his classmates were on ships to Loch Ewe and on their way to Russia with many losses. My dad's graduating class from the Academy lost the highest number of cadets at sea than any other class. In 1944 he was back in New York for graduation, got married, and headed back to the Pacific as a Navy engineering officer down below.

So if my dad had been to Loch Ewe, I might not have been born and not seen Loch Ewe. But if he had, perhaps my mother would have been a Scottish beauty instead of a New Yorker. There were rumours of a girlfriend in Wellington...

 

[Mark J]

Like that shot from Holy Loch, Ray, very interesting.

 

[foc]

A few photos from my neck of the woods.

Picnic on the wild Atlantic way, Ireland. Shot with Fuji C200 , Praktica MTL50.

Roundstone Harbour, Connemara, Co Galway, Ireland. Shot with Fomapan 100 in Fed 4B

Dorrin Strand, Strandhill, Co Sligo, Ireland. Taken with Fed 4b, Fomapan 400.

Lough Gill at Dooney Rock, Co Sligo, Ireland, taken on Fuji 400CN with Olympus Trip35.

 

[RAY WILSON]

Antrim Castle, well, what's left. Nikon D100, I think. No EXIF for some reason. Don't take many digital photos. Ignored the rule of thirds, whichever camera it was.

 

[snusmumriken]

Well, there are a few on my website (under Places), but here's an extra one from long ago.

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• snusmumriken
• Oct 14, 2023

This is Castletownshend, home of Edith Somerville and Martin Ross, and therefore birthplace of the Irish R.M., if you know about such things.

 

[RAY WILSON]

Like that shot from Holy Loch, Ray, very interesting.

Thank you, Mark. I took hundreds in and around Holy Loch. Film was free, Ektachrome, Kodacolor, and TRI-X. Glasgow was grim in the seventies. Great for TRI-X. Those subs are long gone, the Loch is empty now. Some were glad to see the Yanks go. Some were not. Pub owners and chippies! Taxi drivers, too.

 

[xkaes]

Joking aside, I am glad you enjoyed your visit and maybe you could share some of your images. It would be nice to see what we see and take for granted every day, through a new set of visitor's eyes.

My family (McGloin) hails from Sligo. The last time there, stopped at a very impressive, scenic overlook, I commented to a local passerby, "What a beautiful view!". His response was: "You can't eat scenery".

Definitely a relative!

 

[Eric Rose]

Glad to see some of you shsring your local images. I'm still working on mine.