Year: 2007
Grey Seal, Kilmore Quay, Wexford
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Grey Seal, Kilmore Quay, Wexford, originally uploaded by blather. Get high resolution photograph of the grey seal » This grey seal is one of several "tame" animals that hang around the harbour of Kilmore Quay, scavenging fish scraps from anglers and trawler crew. The seal probably lives on the Saltee Islands. I photographed them two years ago, too
Fog rolling over the hills, Kenai Fjords, Alaska
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Fog rolling over the hills, Kenai Fjords, Alaska, originally uploaded by blather. Fog rolling over the hills, Kenai Fjords, Alaska
Igloo City, deserted gas station, near Cantwell, Alaska
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Gas... food... lodging?, originally uploaded by blather. Click for high resolution version » Gas... food... lodging? Deserted gas station, "Igloo City" between Anchorage and Fairbanks, George Parks Highway, Alaska. I had driven through miles and miles of forest wilderness on my way to Denali, so the "Igloo" was a surprise - I ground the car to a halt in a cloud of dust, and took some pictures of this surreal structure. It's about 180 miles north of Anchorage... More about it here »
A photograph of my “isle of the dead” photograph
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } A photograph of my "isle of the dead" photograph, originally uploaded by blather. Get a print of this iceberg photograph. I just got an email from Tokyo-based Irish journalist David McNeill (The Independent, Japan Focus, of a print of one my images on his living room wall. It's a very odd feeling to think that this picture is hanging on a wall in Tokyo. The image is of the "Isle of the dead" iceberg from the Antarctic trip earlier this year. BTW, I have no idea who the chap on the left is, but I assume he's someone important. Update: He's Charles Jenkins: "Charles Jenkins describes the moment in 1965 when he left his US Army post and defected to North Korea as the biggest mistake...
Sea Otter: Seward, Kenai Fjords, Alaska
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } "And sez I, 'you're havin' me on, right?'", originally uploaded by blather. "And sez I, 'you're havin' me on, right?'" Sea Otter, giving it loads to the camera... Hi, I'm an otter, who the hell are you?, originally uploaded by blather. "Hi, I'm an otter, who the hell are you?"
Moose, Soldotna, Alaska
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } There's a moose loose around the hoose, originally uploaded by blather. (high rez version here) There's a moose loose around the hoose Alaskan Moose, Alces alces gigas, near Soldotna Tycho Brahe (15461601), a famous physicist and astronomer, had a pet elk that once got drunk and died when it fell down the stairs in his castle (get high rez version) (get high rez version)
Climate Change & Co2
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } _MG_3727_balloon, originally uploaded by blather. This photo just keeps turning up - I've had people in the Canadian government and in Californian non-profits contacting me about it. And it's just a picture of a balloon! Taken at the icount rally in London last year. I Count - Stop Climate Chaos »
Thomas Truax and his Hornicator
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Thomas Truax and his Hornicator, originally uploaded by blather. Click for high resolution version » New York musician Thomas Truax and His hornicator, at the Boom Boom Room, Dublin, 28/07/2007 Blather.net: Thomas Truax - the Wowtown Interview Thomas Truax website Thomax Truax on myspace
Beluga Point, Turnagain Arm in Cook Inlet, Anchorage, Alaska
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Beluga Point, Turnagain Arm, Anchorage, Alaska, originally uploaded by blather. Get high resolution version of the Beluga Point photograph » Beluga Point, Turnagain Arm on Cook Inlet, near Anchorage, Alaska. This is a common beluga spotting location - but the Cook Inlet belugas are under threat from hunting and pollution, and it's hard to see them these days. I spent hours here and at the Kenai river - saw no belugas. Which isn't proof of anything in itself, of course... Public Hearing on Cook Inlet belugas » The Cook Inlet Beluga Whale » Get high resolution version of this photograph »
Arctic Lupin, Alaskan Wildflower, Lupinus arcticus
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Arctic Lupin, originally uploaded by blather. Download high-rez quality via davewalshphoto.com » Arctic Lupin - lupinus arcticus, photographed on roadside, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska License this image for publication » License this image for publication »</p