The Skelligs

[JohnI]

I'll die happy if I ever reach the point of "100 Views of the Skellig Isles".

n.b. - Hokusai's postscript to his 100 Views of Mt. Fuji included this comment:

" From around the age of six, I had the habit of sketching from life. I became an artist, and from fifty on began producing works that won some reputation, but nothing I did before the age of seventy was worthy of attention. At seventy-three, I began to grasp the structures of birds and beasts, insects and fish, and of the way plants grow. If I go on trying, I will surely understand them still better by the time I am eighty-six, so that by ninety I will have penetrated to their essential nature. At one hundred, I may well have a positively divine understanding of them, while at one hundred and thirty, forty, or more I will have reached the stage where every dot and every stroke I paint will be alive. May Heaven, that grants long life, give me the chance to prove that this is no lie. "

John

[Seonnaidh]

Re: The Skelligs

Oooooh, Hokusai. I had a tutor at Uni who turned me on to Hokusai.
Lovely image you've got there.

[Ulfric M Douglas]

Re: The Skelligs

How many years until every pixel is alive John?

[JohnI]

Re: The Skelligs

How many years until every pixel is alive John?

At my rate of progress, we're talking geological epochs rather than ephemeral human lifetimes . . . .

[Zuiko]

Re: The Skelligs

A very graphic image of the Skelligs, as usual light is the key. That bird couldn't have timed it much better, either!

[Guest]

Re: The Skelligs

A very graphic image of the Skelligs, as usual light is the key. That bird couldn't have timed it much better, either!

Nothing wrong with a bird providing a spot of imperfection in a photo - I like it.

Great shot.

Nick

[Phill D]

Re: The Skelligs

Yes a lovely atmospheric photo, nicely done.