New Year's Eve

It's that time of year again. For the last couple of days I have been very emotional. I get like that at this time of the year and to be honest I dread it. I would rather sleep through, wake up tomorrow and just get on with it. For my son's sake I do try to put on a happy face, but deep down I can't get rid of the un-easy feeling that I carry. So I am thinking of Spring and all the pleasures that budding new life will have in store for me to see in our new home. Do I have a resolution? If I did it would be summed up in one word; Reconnect.

Frozen Canal

Kilmainham Gaol

Kilmainham Gaol (Jail) is a revered historic building that has been at the centre of Irish history since it was first built over 100 years ago. Kilmainham Gaol opened in 1864, during a period of Victorian prison reform and it is designed like Pentonville Prison in the UK. It is a 3 story high space surrounded by catwalks that the prisoners walked to their cells . Over the 128 years it served as a prison, its cells held many of the most famous people involved in the campaign for Irish independence. The British imprisoned and executed the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising here. This part of the gaol has been used as a location in many films; In The Name of the Father, Michael Collins, The Italian Job to name but a few.

I applied a basic Orton Technique to the image, desaturated a little and finally applied an ink line filter to it.

Further information - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilmainham_Gaol

Waning lunar eclipse over The Curragh Plains

19 Horsemen

The 'back' garden