Pål Hermansen - Giant’s Causeway, Ireland
August 17th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized, Western EuropeOther Languages:
There are a handful of really nice basalt column areas on the globe, and Giant’s causeway in Northern Ireland, in the province of Ulster, is a really good example of this phenomenon. In fact, it’s such a fine place that it has been included on the exclusive UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites.
I early discovered that I was not the only person that wanted to see the place, it was more or less covered with people all day, buses delivering new crowds every 20 minutes. But why not include the people in the images, they’re a part of the attraction!
The floor of the core area consists of splendid hexagonal basalt columns, cut more or less at the level of the high tide. The lowest ones were black and freshly ground, while the slightly higher parts were covered with lichens. This created nice patterns, and I enjoyed it as a Mecca for photographical form-study while waiting for the sea to rise.
Then, slowly the light faded, waves started crashing into the black basalt sculptures, and rain-showers drew a continuously darker curtain over the sky. Now it was time to go for longer exposures. But simultaneously, the rain was so dense that the lens was easily covered up before the next wave appeared and even during the exposure. What about inventing a windscreen wiper for camera lenses?
Pål Hermansen / Wild Wonders of Europe
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6 Responses to “Pål Hermansen - Giant’s Causeway, Ireland”
By Linda Grønseth on Aug 17, 2009
Fantastic pictures and what a place!!!
By Neil on Aug 19, 2009
Great photos. Youve captured the rock formations well. Im a fan of the lanscapes with people in, I think it adds to the setting
By Staffan Widstrand on Aug 20, 2009
Wonderful spooky feeling.
Right man for the job!
Definitely a Wild Wonder of Europe.
Staffan
By Fintan on Dec 13, 2009
Great pictures of an amazing place. Not to nitpick but the provence of Ulster is not technically a British provence as the counties of Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan are part of the Irish Republic.
By macdara on Feb 21, 2010
id like to correct you!…ulster is a 9 countie irish province not a 6 countie british occupied territory. I would appreciate it if you got your facts right when referring to the occupied territory, and i would also appreciate it if you described the giants causeway as an irish landmark not british since it outdates the british nation by thousands of years. Go raibh maith agat
By Photography on Feb 27, 2010
I like the way the HDR is used here. Not overwrought, still detailed and the offsets are very channeled towards achieving a perfect monochrome. Nice work.
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