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Perspective Loss

September 30, 2022 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

Your experience of this chapbook starts with looking. Perhaps you’ll find more geographic detail than can be comprehended, perhaps less image resolution than you’d like.

The outer covers for Perspective Loss
Available now from Bracket Books Ireland at outlets like FabHappy or WalkingCommentary.
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Filed Under: Chapbooks Tagged With: andreas gursky, batholith, booklink, bookscape, donegal, fabhappy, geoff dyer, ireland, landscape, mapscape, moya cannon, panorama, photography, photos, poetry, poetry ireland review, seascape, the uplift kit, timescape, travel

Authority or Opinion

January 9, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

Slieve Donard, the third highest peak on this island, snow capped.
Dublin Bay and Mourne Mountains © Simon Robinson 2021
Fuji X-T4 | Sigma 150-600 F5-6.3 DG OS HSM | 486 mm | 1/320s | f/7.1 | ISO 160 | tripod

That’s Slieve Donard, the third highest peak on this island, snow capped as it was this morning.

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Filed Under: Anchoritism, Fake Memoir Tagged With: brexit, david mcwilliams, landscape, manchán magan, mauro guillén, photography

Wednesday’s Hump

May 27, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

‘Don’t you like landscapes?’ someone once asked during a Tadaa challenge in 2012. Tadaa was an Instagram kind of app very popular with iPhone users in the time before Instagram took off.

Of course I like landscapes. The question came at a time when I was learning how to capitalise on the tiny lens in a phone. I spent several years on an iPhoneography mission while learning how to spot ‘the decisive moment’. Things have changed but here are five iPhone photos from 2009 that were ‘published’ on Tadaa in 2012.

  • Tree Spotting
    20091010 iPhone 3GS
  •  Paris Smile
    20091010 iPhone 3GS

  • Another Fluffy Souvenir
    20091010 iPhone 3GS
  • Hotel Des Invalides
    20091010 iPhone 3GS
  • Sea Walking
    20091107 iPhone 3GS
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir, ManRom2021 Tagged With: centre culturel irlandais, henri cartier-bresson, instagram, iphoneography, landscape, photos, tadaa, travel, walking

Generosity and Coincidence

April 21, 2020 by Simon Robinson 1 Comment

The Burren arrived by post this morning. A beautiful graphical representation of a timeless place scoured, smoothed and littered by passing glaciers. Driving out to the Black Head Lighthouse for a late summer sunset has more than once rewarded me with memories as permanent as the photos I could have taken. Following the road to the south, the bare escarpment to the left might be rendered pink by the dying light. Grey limestone enlivened by photons and water droplets can shimmer rose-pink-rose-pink-rose-pink. Light that left the sun some eight minutes earlier persists in the mind decades later.

‘Lovely map – sadly its maker met Covid-19’ wrote my benefactor on a card that accompanied this most generous gift. ‘Hear you are planning an Atlantic Walk’.

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Filed Under: Fake Memoir, ManRom2021 Tagged With: booklink, Covid-19, landscape, manchán magan, maps, ötsi, photography, poetry, susan connolly, tim robinson, tutankhamun, walking, wild atlantic way

More blog streams of conciousness and reworkings

March 3, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment


3 Mar 2020 – noon GMT – 5°C Partly Cloudy – Co. Longford, Ireland

This morning I heard buzzard calls then saw three circling overhead as I chatted with glazers who had arrived to bring improved heat insulation to our home. Earlier, two Grey Herons had passed low over the house while I was discussing electrical earthing problems with a visiting electrician. There’s a plumber coming soon to review a drain pierced during the hunt for a suitable route for an earth rod to contact the granite just a couple of feet below.

The buzzard reminded me of a recent peregrine falcon sighting from our kitchen. A day when the plumber was here wrestling with a 1 inch gas main that needed to be run under the house. No, I’m not associating predators and tradesmen.

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Filed Under: Fake Memoir, ManRom2021 Tagged With: birds, blasphemy, bolt, dalkey, landscape, pakistan

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