Rob Cross tweetz:
My colourised c1900 photo of the Public Records Office in the Four Courts in #Dublin. On the 30th June 1922, it was destroyed by fire when it was shelled by the Free State Army while evicting the Anti-Treaty rebels.
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Photographer Jan Langer’s ‘Faces Of Century’ project in which Czech centenarians re-enact the poses of photographs taken of themselves 70 or 80 years earlier.
Short biographies of the subjects can be found at the ⓘ below each pair of photographs on the site.
Kilmacanogue, County Wicklow
Colum Cronin tweetz:
“August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.” Joseph Wood Krutch.
Botanic Gardens, Dublin.
Colum Cronin tweetz:
“To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.” Beverley Nichols
Rob Cross tweetz:
My 1900c photo of The Hole in the Wall. British soldiers based in McKee Barracks would sneak off and go for a pint in the tavern and the owner Levinus Doyle served the men through a hole in the park wall, hence the name.
A stunning macro image of sand from a Mallorca beach by Cologne-based photographer Ole Bielfeldt – a colourful composition of minute but highly detailed fragments of coral, quartz and shells of which Bielfeldt sez:
Although to the naked eye this looks like very clean natural sand, pieces of micro-plastic, as seen in the last image, can be found when viewed under the microscope.
Sally’s Bridge, Grand Canal, Dublin, yesterday.
Colum Cronin tweetz:
“The sun had set, but a faint pastel haze lingered in the mid-summer sky.”
Merrion Square, Dublin, yesterday.
Colum Cronin tweetz:
“Earth laughs in flowers” Hamatreya – Ralph Waldo Emerson
