[Leica] IMGs: Wedding

[Lluis Ripoll]

That’s is really sharp Douglas!
Lluis


> El 19 maig 2019, a les 2:26, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> va escriure:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Cairn+T+DSC04262.jpg.html
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> Au revoir
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> Douglas
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