[Leica] IMGs: Wedding

[Jim Nichols]

Nice image, Douglas.  I finally was able to view it all, with help from 
the arrow keys.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 5/18/2019 7:26 PM, Douglas Barry wrote:
> Haven't been on here for a while as my middle son got married last 
> weekend, and things had to be done both before and after the wedding 
> which was up at the Loughcrew estate in Co. Meath. As this was the 
> first wedding of any of my children, I certainly learned the hard way 
> not to expect anything worthwhile photographically from myself! It's 
> definitely best left to the professionals who aren't emotionally 
> involved in the whole procedure. Even though I stayed way in the 
> background and only took the odd shot, I still made a series of very 
> amateur balls ups - too many to detail.
>
> We were blessed with a very sunny day , but the resulting harshly 
> contrasting light was terribly hard to manage, especially as the 
> wedding was held in the roofless and ruined old family church of St. 
> Oliver Plunkett in the estate. However, it was a non religious service 
> which meant we were pulled in to do various add-ons, like candle 
> lighting (with unfortunate wind accompaniment), tieing the couple 
> together with a crios, etc. - all of which were quite involving and 
> didn't exactly mesh with photographic concentration. I should have 
> just relied on my iPhone for the odd shot, but instead brought my Fuji 
> X100S and Sony A7ii and a few lenses.
>
> We stayed at the estate which has been in the hands of the Naper 
> family since the 17th century when Oliver Cromwell dispossessed the 
> original owners the Plunketts. Slightly later, the English had the 
> Plunkett's son Oliver - a catholic bishop - hung, drawn, and quartered 
> following Titus Oates's imaginary Popish Plot: he was the last 
> catholic martyr in England. While the estate is interesting enough, it 
> also lies at the foot of the Sliabh na Caillaigh mountains which are 
> crowned with a number of fascinating megalithic remains, including 
> Cairn T on Carrnbane East, which go back over 5,000 years. Cairn T is 
> a passage tomb and the passage is aligned so that light strikes the 
> decorated backstone through the narrow passage at sunrise on the 
> spring and autumn equinoxes. Builders were astronomers back then.
>
> Anyway, I climbed Carnbane East the day after the wedding, and here's 
> a picture of Cairn T with my new daughter in law and some of her 
> visiting French relatives - her mother is French - standing on top of 
> the massive tumulus. The top of the tomb is the highest point in Co. 
> Meath but that didn't deter her 80 year old grandmother. It was taken 
> with the Sony and a f1.8 55mm Zeiss and the large size posted is very 
> large to show detail. BTW the climb and the descent proved I 
> definitely need new knees, but my French improved as her relatives 
> have little English.
>
> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Cairn+T+DSC04262.jpg.html 
>
>
> Au revoir
>
> Douglas
>
>
>
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