WEEKEND REFLECTIONS AND THE WEEKEND ROUNDUP

Time for Weekend Reflections and The Weekend Roundup and the letter is L and Light. Starting off with my STREET PHOTOGRAPHY today.  These 3 people are LOOKING at something they have found on the beach.  Then we have my very modern kitchen LIGHT  and finishing with the Donaghadee LIGHTHOUSE. in Co. Down 

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WEEKEND REFLECTIONS AND THE WEEKEND ROUNDUP

Time for Weekend Reflections and The Weekend Roundup and the letter L and Loud. Now both these first two images are “out of the box” to illustrate LOUD Of course this is L for LIGHTHOUSE however do you know how LOUD a foghorn sounds from a LIGHTHOUSE? They run 149 decibels and that is nine decibels LOUDER than the point at which a person starts to feel pain.  Now that is LOUD! 

Have you heard of LOUD colours? LOUD colours have a striking vibrancy and brightness to the hue; They’re meant to excite the senses and stimulate emotions heavily. The colours in this skirt are LOUD and can be a perfect choice when looking to add vibrancy and energy to your colour palette.

LET me end this post with a LOVELY Spring REFLECTION image to calm the soul. 

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THROUGH MY LENS

These are the penultimate images of Charles Fort.  Wednesday will be my final post in this series.  This is the Lighthouse at the Fort.

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WILD BIRD WEDNESDAY

I am continuing my series of photographs that Danny, Colin and myself took when I took 16 of my Birders on a boat trip to Mew Island,  Copelands, near Donaghadee.  This is Mew Lighthouse and some Manx Shearwater and a Tern.

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You wil be pleased to know I have full rotation in my shoulder joint now but need a bit more strength in the arm however I am now allowed to drive again!

THROUGH MY LENS

Although this looks like half a lighthouse it was in fact designed to look like that and is the Ardglass Marina Offices

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THROUGH MY LENS

A quick history of St John’s Lighthouse in Co Down, Northern Ireland

• St. John’s Point Lighthouse was designed by George Halpin Senior, one of the most famous civil engineers of the time. The light was first exhibited in 1844.
• The original lighthouse was painted white. In 1902 three black bands were added. Its current markings of black with two yellow bands have been in place since 1954.
• The tower was originally only 14m tall. It was extended to its current dizzying height of 40m in the 1880s and is now the tallest onshore lighthouse on the Irish coast (Fastnet is the tallest offshore lighthouse).
• The lighthouse was automated in 1981.
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• St John’s Point has a curious connection to Irish playwright Brendan Behan. Behan’s father was contracted to paint a number of lighthouses across Ireland and enlisted Brendan to paint St John’s Point in 1950. However, Brendan’s efforts were reported to be less than impressive!
• St John’s Point is one of the places mentioned in Van Morrison’s song ‘Coney Island’.
• It is one of 70 lighthouses operated by the Commissioners of Irish Lights around the coast of Ireland and continues to provide a vital role in maritime safety today.

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WEEKEND REFLECTIONS AND THE WEEKEND ROUNDUP

Time for Weekend Reflections and The Weekend Roundup and the letter is V and Violet. In the image below is Groomsport VILLAGE where you can see VARIOUS types of VESSELS in the bay giving subtle REFLECTIONS in the water and below are more VERY VARIED VESSELS in Bangor Marina.  Then we have 3 weather VEINS , an act of VANDALISM and finally VIOLETS I planted in a hanging basket in my garden some time ago and they now have grown a lot.

Slangkop Lighthouse (Part 2)

This is the remainder of Monday’s post when I was on holiday with my family over Christmas time when we walked along the board walk to see the Slangkop Lighthouse.

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THROUGH MY LENS

While I was on holiday with my family over last Christmas time we walked along the board walk to see the Lighthouse and these are some of the photographs I am showing you today.  There will be more closer ones on Wednesday.

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Slangkop (Snake head) Lighthouse has been burning brightly since 1914, becoming fully automated in 1979. The tower's light shimmers 33 nautical miles out to sea from its 33 M circular construction.

I am still in Australia being half way through my holiday and enjoying my time with family and therefore NOT commenting on any posts until my return.

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SCAVENGER HUNT SUNDAY

How quickly another week goes by and it is time to link up with Ashley's SCAVENGER HUNT SUNDAY.  At the weekend I was on Copeland Island with some friends and this is a pair of their boots below and the 'Inspiation' shots below them were are also shot there.

1. Boots 

2. Inspirational 

3. Artificial Light 
I attended a Tea Dance in the Ulster Hall in Belfast and these were some of the refreshments we were given.

I met up with some of my nursing friends for a mini reunion in Belfast and as I had them altogether in a lift, I decided to take a photograph.  Now can you see how many of us there are?  We are all in the lift and you will see the answer at the end of this post.

4. Negative Space 
Now I was not sure what negative space was so had to do some research on that before submitting these two shots and hope they are correct.  Again the above shot was taken on the Copeland Island and below is a sunset as I was coming out of Crawfordsburn Country Park.

5. Outside My Window

I have several bird feeders that I look out onto in the back garden and many birds feed there and this is a male Bullfinch.  Below, is my Maple tree turning a brilliant red and it only lasts for about a week but it is lovely beside the shrub Eleagus varigata.  

There were only nine of my nursing friends in the lift.  Did you work it out?

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I have to apoligise to many of you as today I accidently deleted the first 4 of the comments that have been made on this post.

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SCAVENGER HUNT SUNDAY

These are my contributions for the SCAVENGER HUNT SUNDAY.  This week I visited Islay Island, Scotland for the day. Later in the week I attended a Tea Dance and workshops at the Ulster Hall in Belfast which were organnised by Kaleidscope.  Enjoy this post.

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1.Leaves

As it is autumn, the above and below images are some of the LEAVES I found to photograph in Northern Ireland.  A wonderful time of the year.

                                                                                          2. A Hat

The man in this straw HAT below was waiting to go into the Tea Dance and when I arrived back off the train into my town after the dance, I knew I needed another 'HAT' shot so I went into a shop and this sale assistant was a great sport and very happy to wear one of their hats for me.

3. Stop

As I said, I visited Islay and this shot above was were our boat had that come to a STOP at the Marina.  Below the image was taken at the RSPB Reserve when we were having our lunch STOP. I was the only woman with 7 men on this trip!

4. My Town

MY TOWN is called Bangor and is in County Down, Northern ireland and as you can see it is a coastal town.  These photographs were taken one evening when my friends and myself went  for a walk on the coastal path in an area known as ‘Pickie’.

5. Up

When we were travelling back from Islay, the skipper took us to see Rathlin Island to look for more birds. Now the light was fading quickly however high UP on the cliff is the most unusual Upside Down Lighthouse.  You can really only see it from the water below it.  So this was a special extra for me from the trip.

One of the reasons we made the trip to Islay was to see the 22,000 recently arrived Barnacle Geese and the image above you certainly can see some of them rising UP in the sky.  Just in case anyone does not know what these geese look like, I have added an image of them below. 

These are a few extras images for UP because I managed to take these shots between workshops when we were having a coffee break.  This juggler was practicing for a later performance. Balloons are UP and decorating the room.

I had a 12 second video of the juggler. CLICK HERE if it does not appear below. 

I hope you enjoyed how I interpreted the word prompts this week using my photographs and video.

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