Year: 2007
Irish Mountain Hare, near Hag’s Head, Cliffs of Moher
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Get printable version » Irish Mountain Hare, near Hag's Head, Cliffs of Moher, originally uploaded by blather. Irish Mountain Hare, Lepus Timidis Hibernicus. The Mountain Hare is largely adapted to polar and mountainous habitats. It is distributed from Fennoscandia to eastern Siberia; in addition there are isolated populations in the Alps, Ireland, Poland, United Kingdom and Hokkaido. some scientists believe that the Irish Hare should be regarded as a separate species.
Hell River
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Hell River, originally uploaded by blather. Get High quality version » Sign for Hell River, on the R352, Tulla, Co. Clare, Ireland. Weird on this - I've yet been able to find out why it's called "Hell River"! Is this Chronos driving a cattle truck full of dead folk? Abhainn Ifrinn does literally translate as "river hell", so there's no mistakes of anglicisation - I shall enquire further.
Duck, abandoned
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Duck, abandoned, originally uploaded by blather. Toy duck hanging upside down in a tree beside the river Slaney, Wexford
No trespassing – cliffs of moher, Ireland
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } No trespassing, originally uploaded by blather. Warning, no trespassers, private property, no dogs - Sign near Hags Head at the Cliffs of Moher. Visitors are instead syphoned through an expensive car parking system to see a less interesting part of the cliffs
Our limbs intertwined
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Get high quality version » Our limbs intertwined, originally uploaded by blather. Iris stalk, not yet in flower. I shot it at 400mm telephoto, with the light behind it - hence the halo around each leaf....
Reaching skywards
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Get high quality version » Reaching skywards, originally uploaded by blather. Iris stalk, not yet in flower. I shot it at 400mm telephoto, with the light behind it - hence the halo around each leaf....
The European Robin: Ok, now you’ve gotten me mad…
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Download high quality copy » Ok, now you've gotten me mad..., originally uploaded by blather. Erithacus rubecula - European Robin. Photographed in my parent's garden near Wexford town, in Ireland. He's got his crest up - despite their size and cute reputation, they're fiercly territorial, and will even try and kill each other! I shot this from a hide I made in my car, and used a 30D and 100-400 Canon L Series Lens (USM) with my 30D. It's not cropped.
Australian White Ibis
Australian White Ibis - high quality version » Photographed in Hyde Park, Sydney, Australia. These birds look like a mixture of a heron and one of HR Giger's Alien nightmares. They're ubiquitious in Australian urban spaces, but it takes a tourist to take notice...
I wonder what flavour it is?
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } I wonder what flavour it is?, originally uploaded by blather. Yes, the ice really is this blue! Blue ice » Photo made on board the Greenpeace ship Esperanza's expedition to the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary to find the Japanese whaling fleet © Dave Walsh
Blue Iceberg, Antarctica
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Blue Iceberg, originally uploaded by blather. Yes, the ice really is this blue! Blue ice » Photo made on board the Greenpeace ship Esperanza's expedition to the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary to find the Japanese whaling fleet © Dave Walsh