Darren Greene: happy halloween
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inphotos.org: Glengariff Cemetery
It’s Halloween again and ghosts and zombies are about. Would you spend a night in a cemetery, tonight? What sorts of noises do you hear if you live next to one? oooer!
I’m going out tonight for dinner with a friend, I wonder if they’ll be serving Halloween Brack?
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Right now I should be on the train making my way from Belfast to Cork for Barcamp tomorrow.. The most unfortunate thing is that I won’t get into the City until after 10pm, so it doesn’t look like I’ll get any Noodles, but instead hope there is wi-fi in the hotel and catch up with what I missed on the wi-fi-less public transport.
Latchiko: Scary Mary
The final installment in the spooky series. This doll was probably the scariest thing in Charleville Castle! Look into those eyes - she means business.
This image was lit using a 580EXII which was triggered using an STE-2 transmitter. I lit the doll from below to create the sinister shadows on the face and also to cast the shadow on the wall behind.
Iced Coffee: fire works
It’s Halloween. You have probably noticed.
These fireworks were shot last year in Belfast. I’m not in Belfast this year for Halloween.
I won’t be dressing up this year, but travelling on a choo choo train to Cork for the weekend.
Just don’t dress up as Sarah Palin please.
Will Knott: crawl
Meet Rover.
I think that Rover is a wolf spider (I think), and she’s living in the house. Her hobbies include reading (she makes a racket turning the pages and moving books late at night when I’m trying to sleep) and hiding in candy being given out to any kids foolish enough to visit on Halloween.
She makes a nice pet, but its hard taking her for a walk.
And yes I’m trying to finish my slides and analysis for Barcamp Cork II.
take care,
and don’t be too scared (or scary) tonight,
Will Knott
Glasseyalley: Back to the Macro
Another wonderful couple of hours spent at the Botanic Gardens in Dublin. The place seems to change every time we go there and yet again, I saw something I hadn't seen before. And that's not even taking into account the new looking 'vegetable garden' they're building. I was going to put up something Halloweeny today, but meh, this'll have to do!
Scenes of Ireland (and more): Happy Hallow’een
Well this is Samhain;
Hallow'een for the general public, the eve of All Hallows or the christian feastday of the dead.
Samhain for some of us, the ancient festival marking the beginning of Winter and the need to prepare for the dark half of the year. At Tara and the Hill of Ward fires would have been lit and from these the chains of bonfires across the great central plains and out to the furthest reaches of the country, or so the poets tell us. The gathering at Tara at Samhain brought together clans for horse trading, games, arts, marriages; the ancestors were honoured and the gods, and the chieftains and the fosterings and alliances. Divinations were made, omens examined.
Over the centuries the christian associations (Feast of the saints, all souls) has beome conflated with the original ideals of Ancestor, and the sense of a liminal time. But underneath the games and the ghost stories, you have the ancient and enduring.
I love the ghostly and ghoulish and the mischief; I also love the older philosophies and tonight, I'll be reaching out to my ancestors, as they once did to theirs...
