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My friend always says – You’d not come to Ireland for weather – but he is wrong.
Most tourists actually do want to experience “true” Ireland and they are never surprised when it rains. It is still summer in Kinsale and we have all-weather-all-the time. I found great combination in my waterproof Fuji XT3 and ability to shoot with film simulations. It just fits moody weather.
So here it is, todays, fresh from camera. Summer in Kinsale.
Analog photography
I love summer! I love sunshine, blue sky and sparkles ✨ on sea surface.
Wherever I am, I carry in me memories of past happy summers on the Adriatic. Even Atlantic Ocean in Ireland looks and feels like Mediterranean on my photographs. It really doesn’t matter if it’s black and white, or colour. Feel it.
PS. New photographs are uploaded to silaart.picfair.com … Don’t forget to check it there from time to time.
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My morning encounter with wild dolphins caused a lot of joy for people who saw my photos.
It was a calm morning, with light swiftly changing from morning blue, over colourful sunrise rainbow, with finish in stormy purples. My plan was to go out to Garrettstown beach and shoot some long exposures. When I spotted a pod of dolphins strolling parallel with the beach and playful jumping out of the water, I started snapping with my camera and caught some nice shots. Cork Beo published an article with my shots. https://www.corkbeo.ie/news/local-news/pictures-capture-dolphins-playing-just-18606865
I also managed to get a nice long exposure with purple clouds.
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Yesterday, we visited West Cork. It is not far from our place, practically at our doorstep. When we started our trip it was raining. Nothing new for Ireland. We also new, in a nick of time the weather will change. So it was. The clouds and mist started lifting and the mood was just right for my kind of photography.
Analog photography
This weekend is the yearly art event in Kinsale – Kinsale Artists Weekend (very imaginative name lol) and my photograph is exhibited in one of the windows.
Theme is HOPE and there is a text with it:
“During lockdown we were very limited in our movements. One of the first days when we were allowed to travel a bit further away, I traveled early in the morning to the beach, Garrylucas. There was this ordinary plant on the car park, growing from sand and asphalt and for me that was the utmost visual scene of hope. It was even shaped like a heart.
Even in the toughest circumstances, there is life”
Recently, I was drawn back to the black and white photography. Bnw’s are made with my phone.
Alternative process
I’ve always been alternative photographer. That statement means that I’ve always explored and pushed medium in different directions. I have an inquisitive mind.
Infrareds are so beautiful. Look at them.
Landscape on a completely different level.
Recognisable, but different. Familiar but …
Ireland in red, white and blue.
I guess my Croatian heritage jumps and merges with Irish landscape.
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What one finds to be pleasing, a happy place, other finds disturbing.
Often times I was conversing with people and what to me looked odd even repulsive, others would find it to be enjoyable. We are all different and unique.
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I am a visual artist and in landscape I find all inspiration that I need. It also means that I see connections in nature, for example, Ireland, Scotland and Iceland share connections that are visible in landscape. If I don’t know there are a historical, social and language connection, I would always new just looking at their landscape that there is one.
In my black river, black beaches, black lakes, there is a reflection of past times… I wish to explore it more in the future.
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Year is 2020.
June. A month that in Europe represents beginning of summer holidays, a month of happiness.
Ireland.
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Dull, is a word that Croatian language doesn’t have decent translation for. It is an expression for days and days without proper sunshine. It can be daylight and it can be hazy sunshine, but lacking colours, brightness, vividness. Drab, or dreary. I found that even though I suffer from heavy migraines during days like that, I found it to be quite inspiring. Lack of anything exciting, proper bore, hides nuances of visual stimuli.
Maybe lack of excitement forces me to rethink everything I am accustomed to?!
I guess motto for today might be:
Don’t let the dreariness around you defats you, rather in dullness find beauty.
