Category Archives: Photography

ammo1 ammo2 ammo3 ammo4 ammo5Colourful sweeties, filled with a variety of deaths.

From AMMO – a photo series of 900 pieces of dissected ammunition ‘shot’ by photographer Sabine Pearlman in a WW2 bunker in Switzerland. Sez she:

I was originally intrigued by the ambiguous nature of the subject matter. The cross-sections reveal a hidden complexity and beauty of form, which stands in vast contrast to the destructive purpose of the object. It is a representation of the evil and the beautiful, a reflection of the human condition.

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PELT-MOBILE SPOTTED Taxidermy-Truck-02 Taxidermy-Truck-03 Taxidermy-Truck-04 Taxidermy-Truck-05 Taxidermy-Truck-09Photographer Diane Dodd’s pictures of a trapper’s pickup in a Savannah Georgia parking lot, adorned with the pelts and stuffed carcasses of his prey (including an obligatory bullfrog sucking on a bottle of Jack Daniels)

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BNehZEMCMAApfsEBallycotton, Co. Cork via John Finn

BNezaC7CcAANjpK Bulloch Harbour, Dalkey Co. Dublin and Vico Road, Dalkey looking to Bray Head via Daragh

moon2 Kinsale, Co. Cork via Cian Walsh

moonFrom Kildare at 1am.

The insanely bright perigee moon over Ireland tonight. You won’t see a moon like it for another 14 months.

Thanks Atticus

Boat-Breaks-in-Two-01-e1371655369888-634x337Boat-Breaks-in-Two-05-634x420Boat-Breaks-in-Two-02-634x420 Boat-Breaks-in-Two-04-634x420 Boat-Breaks-in-Two-03-634x422On Monday, after just five years in service, the container ship MOL Comfort met its maker off the Yemen coast when – loaded with cargo – it split in two as its bow and stern dropped down into troughs either side of a large wave.

All 26 crew survived and were safely transported from the two halves which – bizarrely – remain afloat, awaiting tugs to drag them to shore.

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