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Dingle Peninsula | October 2007 | Another Photograph Photomovie: Dingle Peninsula 5.24 mins Exploring an enchanted landscape amidst the ever changing weather of the Dingle Peninsula. (0089) Uploaded on October 2, 2007 castleblue says: Now I know exactly why they call it the "emerald isle"... just watched the movie. Half way through I wondered if I could adopt you as a brother of choosing. At the end I knew why God was so much in Ireland... so many still waters at the edge of every rushing water ~ even the rough edge of the seas seemed to somehow still the soul... or was it the harp? .-) tonypraxis says: Greg .. this place is an invigorating and quiet retreat from the noise and bustle of city life - as tourists we could only sample moments of reflective contemplation, but I imagine a maker of pictorial landscapes could spend a lifetime here .. as Brother Tony!? - umm, a Buddhist photographer meditating in/on Kerry? .. could be a life ;-) This is a great Photomovie and a good selection of pictures. Plenty of water and green and the light seems perfect for photography. I was wondering who used to live in that old derelict house on the Dingle peninsula. The country side there is unspoilt and as you said a quiet reteat from city life so Thursday its back to the madness of Finchley road on your push bike? Stewart, a local farmer owns this land and these old buildings, which are used for storing the sort of things you see in people's sheds around here - come to think of it I didn't see the content of many sheds so not sure if this is typical. They had a goat grazing in a small field in front of the building. You've got something here. I could watch this time and time again. It takes the Irish half of me 'home'. My cousins still farm the land where my mother was born, but they live down in the village and the old house is used for storage. Using the old house as a store seems to be common practice. People have retreated from the wilder and more remote areas but the old buildings still bear witness. You may also have noticed a few 'modern' bungalows scattered around the place. Thanks for taking us with you. Tom, we saw empty 'old' stone houses everywhere, many used for storage, some with animals in and a very few where people were attempting to make them habitable again. The 'modern' bungalows were everywhere, the cement block build rendered and usually painted yellow, and plonked in a piece of land with just grass and some sort of hard standing for the car. Aesthetically they looked awful, but inside they looked warm and dry, with power and hot and cold running water. A djingle djangle moment! Cliff, making the photomovies helps to hang onto, and even make, a memory of our trip, and it's there to look back on in the future. Twig, it was a very pleasurable experience there .. getting there and coming back wasn't particularly pleasant. Awesome. Robert, thanks, good to have you around again.
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