Summer bugs!

Summer time, bugs' time. Bugs, bugs everywhere, in all shapes and forms, crawlers and flyers alike, Nature's little living ephemeral jewels, battling the colours of seasonal wildflowers with the most diverse tints, tones and patterns of their own. Summer's fun and beautiful.

Garretstown Woods, Cork, Ireland

2020, June

Old Head Cliffs

In the Old Head of Kinsale (An Seancheann), and throughout the ages, differential erosion slowly carves upon the rocks. Yet, layers of shale and sandstone erode at different rates. Sandstone, being more resilient, remains leaving a vertical edged landscape.

The Old Head of Kinsale (An Seancheann)

Kinsale, Ireland
2017, September

Old Head

The Old Head (An Seancheann) is a sandstone peninsula, south of Kinsale. An early XVII lighthouse, the ruins of an old guard tower and a rebuilt early XIX signal tower remain above the scenery. Although being a beautiful landscape, a golf course has held the entire peninsula as hostage, blocking access to its cliffs from both tourism and locals.
As this is the closest point of land to where the RMS Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat, in 1915, a memorial stands behind this perspective.

The Old Head of Kinsale (An Seancheann) 

Kinsale, Ireland
2017, September

Nohoval Cove

It was a clear and bright sunny Summer day. Except this is Ireland... and you always count with the Irish fog! When I got to this location, visibility was down to 50m. I couldn't even see the peaks. But, again, this is Ireland. In 20 minutes, everything changed, the fog dropped just before sunrise, leaving a quite interesting mist for the composition. Nohoval cove provides a narrow access to the sea, in-between the high cliffs of Ireland’s Southern Coast. It is located in Nohoval (An Seancheann) parish, near Kinsale.

Nohoval cove at sunset, in a very misty day.

Kinsale, Ireland
2017, September