Joker's Bottle of Frogs

by JokerXL

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Ireland

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I didn't get much chance to stop anywhere pretty this time round (again). The truck's just too flippin' big to get (and stop) anywhere nice. Often I'll see a really spectacular scene while driving through the countryside but by the time I've found a safe place big enough to stop in I'm either surrounded by trees or gone round the wrong side of a hill.
The B/W shots are taken from an industrial estate in Kilkenny and the sunset ones are from the freight port here in Belfast (I'm waiting to get on the night boat back to Liverpool).
Those hills over the back of Belfast (what are they called? Help) are always good for a nice view. A few weeks ago there was cloud coming in from the west, behind the hills, and it started rolling over the edge like liquid nitrogen from a cryogenic vat. Pretty spectacular, but I was driving down the Motorway at the time. Typical.------
JokerXL out'n'about

27th Sep 2007, 21:51

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Sprocket says:

oh lordy, that's a scary sky

27th Sep 2007, 22:04

Hward says:

Nice sky

27th Sep 2007, 23:27

540air says:

Great series as ever dude :)

27th Sep 2007, 23:42

swamprose says:

and I thought Ireland was green.
great shots. I know what you mean about driving by photos you wanted to take.

28th Sep 2007, 00:40

anonymous says:

Nice pics. if the hills are to the north They would be the Antrim hills. (I think)

28th Sep 2007, 09:42

paddington says:

Sorry! Don`t know how I came to be anonymous

28th Sep 2007, 09:46

seaneeboy says:

Very nice - I think they are The Antrim Hills too...

Me and Mrs eeboy are off to the giants causeway next week, there'll be some great photo opps there!

28th Sep 2007, 11:19

minkey says:

The pics of the field covered with the hay looks really great in b&w.; It's just reminded how it used to look ages ago :-)

28th Sep 2007, 13:04

Caine says:

Spectacular series, Joker.

28th Sep 2007, 16:10

hildegard says:

Looks like you made the best of a bad job though. :)

28th Sep 2007, 16:45

Boet[NLI] says:

Hellfire ?

28th Sep 2007, 21:15

arkangel says:

I think the hill just behind Belfast (to the North) is called Cave Hill. I once went to a great wedding there - an actor called John Keegan, lovely fella. Another thesp, Adrian Dunbar, sang a rousing version of Wild Mountain Thyme.

28th Sep 2007, 21:52

taniwha says:

The sun bleeds into the sky

29th Sep 2007, 09:03

JokerXL says:

Cheers all, and tnx for the HL!

It's Ireland Taniwha, so "Under a blood red sky" seems appropriate.
;-)

Sounds nice A-angel, I think you may be right, it's that big old rock hanging over those posh houses.
And yes Paddington and Mr.Eeboy part of the Antrim hills (I Googled it)

Swamprose, yes it was so very, very green! So green in fact that I just had to turn it all Black/White and Red
(like a newspaper (black, white & re(a)d all over)
Sorry, I'll get me coat.
;-)

29th Sep 2007, 14:16