Photohunt Magical

My daughter’s idea of a magic kingdom….

Photohunt: scoop

Ah, St Patricks Day! The world’s excuse to dye everything green, and flavour everything with Guinness. Including ice-cream. Actually, this worked quite well – the malty flavour of the stout was reminiscent of other confectionery like Maltesers, and I don’t like my desserts to be overly sweet.  For reference, this was in an ice-cream parlour [...]

Photohunt Zap

A tricky subject this week. Not having any photographs of lightning striking, or superheroes ka-powing (though I do have a picture of a carboard cutout of Qi-gon Jin, with his light sabre…..) here’s an arty shot of some rays of sun, zapping a river…

Photohunt: texture

This is the Millennium stone in Delamont Park, Killyleagh. I love the way it invites you to reach out and touch that warm textured stone.

Photohunt Reflect

The modern buildings in the City of London are constructed of lots of glass, which then show strange reflections of each other.

photohunt sturdy

My sturdy dog-walking boots, after a hard day’s tramping.

Photohunt fresh

These are some freshly unfurled skunk cabbage or swamp lantern, taken at the lake in Hillsborough forest. Their colour is stunning in the spring sunshine, all glossy and jaunty yellow. But after a few weeks the smell they give off is pungent!

Photohunt spicy

St Georges Market, in downtown Belfast is a great place to find all sorts of interesting foodstuffs.  Here’s one of the spice stalls. My kids always tease me about ordering the ”most random thing on the menu”.  As I surveyed my morning’s purchases – roast dulse, dopiaza sauce, feta stuffed peppers, marinated artichoke hearts, pistachio and sour cherry biscotti  and [...]

Photohunt Play

My favourite waste of time of Facebook…. I have to limit myself to 3 goes at breakfast time, and this has made me late for work on more than one occasion!

Photohunt Symbolic

Belfast is certainly not short of examples of symbolism – flags, murals, peacewalls, painted kerbstones, they’re everywhere you look! But in recent years there have been more positive changes.  And one of the themes that Belfast has found to come together behind is the Titanic.  Quite why a maritime disaster engenders such a response worldwide is a [...]