This photo of a large flock of Geese flying over Dublin West I took last week while out with the dog. I’m weak on Geese but I think they’re Barnacle Geese. They caught my eye flying from over Chapelizod to Ballyfermot but then did a 180 degree turn.
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Aside from the 3 recent photos of Dublin in the snow posted here on Bicyclistic.com:
Half Moon Over Snowy Roofs
Snowy Sunset, Dublin
Snow View for Dog-Dog
I’ve also posted several Dublin snow photos over on Twitpic:
The Joy of Snow
Glenaulin Snows
Winter Crossbar
Trees in a Row in the Snow
Every Branch of Every Tree
Up on the Roof, the Snowy roof
Snowball, Ballyfermot
Spaghetti [...]
Much as I don’t like being out in the snow (I really don’t, so don’t go trying to convert me), I am enjoying a lot of the images it throws up. The skies especially have me frequently entranced.
Thanks to walks with the dog I have a fair few photos like this one looking towards [...]
As a background I prefer the plain canvas of a dark raincloud than that of a pure blue sky. These might well be football boots and not runners, but the rook is a rook. And I’m not responsible for putting either up there.
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Some Other Dublin Photos:
• A Boy, A Bicycle, and his Little [...]
This photo of a couple of mallards on the Liffey was taken beside the entrance to my studio when I popped out for a break from painting.
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Other Photos of Mine:
• Dublin, A Horse
• It Wasn’t All Mountains and Islands
• Pied Wagtail
It’s impossible to dislike wagtails. Or to ignore them. I mean, imagine if people moved like this.
Rain leaves puddles in the grass and wagtails aren’t usually far from water. Which is probably why there was one on the roof the day I left the cottage.
This is a photo I took of a pied wagtail in [...]
Rookery
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Here is the painting on which I based the question for painting giveaway #5. The painting is in acrylic on canvas with painted sides. I think it’s 15 inches by 15 inches.
It was painted this month, April 2009 and depicts rooks in a tree where Dublin 20 meets Dublin 10. Indeed I think some [...]
At the moment I have some paintings on display at the Rathmines Festival.
Two of those paintings feature birds. One is of a single rook in flight but if you can be the first person in the comments below to tell me how many rooks feature in the other painting, you can have for free [...]
Probably because of how they walk, I’ve always liked rooks.
Sometimes when I’m cycling they’ll be directly on the road in front of me, eating something that even I wouldn’t. As the bike seems about to hit them they opt not to fly swiftly to immediate safety some distance away but instead to just casually [...]
