Step

I had a particularly good day when I took this. Four good exposures in a single day is good going by anybody's standards, and this is one of the four - the other three were all of cartwheels (see a previous post here); this is in the same place.

Christmas and computers

They speak for themselves.

Straw

Another one from the Delta trip. This is the straw used to thatch the roofs. It grows everywhere in the Delta, but isn't much harvested now. The morning light was coming from the right and bouncing off the grass, which gives an unusual uplighting effect on the straw.

Shell House

Another one from the Danube Delta. This was taken on a bright early morning with clear skies; the lack of any texture in the sky in the photograph shows this, there really wasn't any to show. The house is still in use, although not for humans, and the thatch roof is maintained. The next photo I upload will show the raw material, in the same early morning light.

Hair

Just to show something a little different. From the Theatre Festival in Sibiu, June 2007 when Sibiu was European Capital of Culture.

Delta

The first example from my trip to the Danube Delta. I think it combines all of the key elements of the Delta, even if only symbolically. The wood for the trees and the scales for the fish and, by extension, the water. There's probably a splodge of birdshit there as well.

Water wheel

There's something about the use of wood in Romania. It seems to age more gracefully than we're used to in Ireland; it must be the climate, which is much dryer in Romania. The working is usually fairly rough to start with, for objects like this in any case, and age adds to both the grain texture and the natural lumps and bumps in wood.

The light in this was interesting, but made for fairly strong contrast between the top, which is in full sunlight, and the lower part, much of which is in deep shadow. Happily the light was spring rather than summer and in a forested area which seemed to help keep the sunlight manageable.