Sorry it's been so long since my last entry but I've been on the road for days. Every morning we've all been waking up at 8 and getting home at 10 or later...We started off with a hike up Cappanabhaile (Cap-a-walla) mountain, a massive, rolling mound of limestone behind our house. It was from the top that we realized how small we were in relation to this expansive landscape now all around us. I remember thinking back to just an hour before...when there at the bottom I scoffed at this "hill" and thought to myself, no problem...
After that hike we didn't stop! Every day we went somewhere new or had a performer, speaker or artist coming to see us...it was great. Within days I felt as though I had met so many valuable people and learned so many things about this country, culturally as well as historically. As you might have seen in my photographs the views have been absolutely amazing. On the third day of field trips I made it to my new favorite place, Connemara. It is the county north of Galway which is much different in terms of landscape. I took some of my favorite footage there as well as some of my favorite pics...(I'll upload them soon....)
I really didn't know what to expect when I got here (to Ireland), and now that I'm here, I still don't! Everyday I am trying to meet new people so as to establish new connections. On Saturday I began my first project for my photography class, Portraits...but not just any portraits, 4x5 F64 Portraits. Some of you may have heard of the F64 Group from back in the 50's with Ansel Adams, Edward Weston and Imogen Cunningham (and others)...they were a group of photographers dedicated to "Strait Photography" "Pure Photography", in other words...unmessed with and highly focused. The "F64" thing deals with large format photography in which the aperture is stopped down to the smallest hole, rendering the sharpest, most focused image you can capture. ALL that said, I'm doing highly focused portraits of the Locals of my town, Ballyvaughan. I'll share them with you once I print them...
I am finally adjusting I think to living here...still frustrated about the rain 3 times a day and the lack of convenient travel...but enjoying my time nonetheless.

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Posted by: Alison Leary | September 21, 2006 10:36 PM