Orangutans as species Orangutans are the most arboreal of the great apes and spend most of their time in trees. Their hair is typically reddish-brown, instead of the brown or black hair…
Francis Bacon’s Studio, Hugh Lane Gallery. Bacon’s studio was first offered to the Tate in London which, for some inexplicable reason, turned it down. So it came to Dublin where…
The Great Hunger of 1845 to 1852 when potato blight turned Ireland into a land of mass starvation, emigration and abandoned homes and fields. To this day, the Irish landscape is pitted with famine-era ruins and undulating potato fields.
Errew Abbey, Lough Conn, was founded in the 7th century by the Augustinians. Legend has it that a sacred relic from the Abbey lay at the bottom of Lough Conn for centuries before it floated to the surface.
Bog cotton, eriophorum angustifolium, is like the finest fairy hair.
…in the garden where I am staying in the West of Ireland.
Watching the peat bog at twilight will be the event of each day when I return to Ireland next Friday. Here, I will be waiting for what photographers call the “sweet light”, which is literally a gift from the heavens. © www.anniewrightphotography.com
Me at the Van Abbe Museum where the video featuring this image is being shown at the 1980s, Today’s Beginnings exhibition: http://vanabbemuseum.nl/en/programme/detail/?tx_vabdisplay_pi1%5Bptype%5D=18&tx_vabdisplay_pi1%5Bproject%5D=2023
