HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL!

The light was very poor today ... overcast, grey sky and very cold. I took a few photographs in a graveyard using a Sigma DP1 camera. The photographs will be uploaded later today or sometime tomorrow. If you like cemeteries you will love Mount Jerome Cemetery, often called Harold's Cross Cemetery - here wealthy Victorians set monuments to themselves, built to last. They couldn't take their wealth with them. So they made sure they could still flaunt it for decades and centuries to come. Not always too successful ... some monuments are in a state of gentle decay, others (especially those made of sandstone) are rotting away at an alarming rate. But this only adds to the attractiveness of Mount Jerome ... definitely recommended for anybody in search of Victorian Dublin.

If you are researching your family and you believe that some of them have been buried in Mount Jerome then you should visit find a grave.



Later today I will upload the "Dublin Maritime Festival 2008" collection.

I am currently uploading a series of photographs relating to "Sea Stallion" the Viking Warship:

The Worlds largest reconstruction of a Viking ship was launched in 2004 and named by the Queen Margrethe 2nd of Denmark. In 2007 the ship made the 1000 nautic miles voyage from Roskilde in Denmark to Dublin in Roskilde. Unlike many other reconstructed Viking ships, the new longship is a true-born warship - one that was build to transport large numbers of warriors at great speed to attacks on foreign shores. In a good wind, the ship will probably outsail most modern ships, and even without the aid of the wind, the 60 oarsmen can make it travel at a comparatively fair speed. The ship is long and narrow, with room for 60 tightly-packed warriors with each an oar, but there is little storage room for provisions or goods, so it is not fit for journeys to Greenland or other distant places. The original ship Skuldelev 2 of which the Sea Stallion is a replica, is exhibited on the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde. The ship was build in Dublin in Ireland, and in summer the Sea Stallion sailed to Dublin in Ireland to visit the place where the original ship was build. In the winter 2007/2008 The Sea Stallion was exhibited outside the National Museum in Dublin. In the summer 2008 the Sea Stallion returned to Roskilde on a route going south of England.