Rocks, rocks and more rocks. Insert a “Father Ted” reference or ten. Also, flowers… In the rocks. It could only be one place. Or, maybe two. Three maximum. Got back last night from a few days spent in & around The Burren over the long weekend. Always a fantastic place.

Thankfully, the weather played nicely and it didn’t actually rain (much) until Monday. By then it was time to start the long drive back to Dublin anyway. The reasons for going down were roughly as follows;

1. To see the flowers that are unique to the area
2. To get away from Dublin for the long weekend.
3. To get some content for sofobomo.

Yeah, my book is going to be largely (and by largely, I mean totally) based on the landscape of The Burren. That’d be the book that doesn’t current exist. That book. All shot on my most favourite (currently) of black & white films, Ilford PanF Plus 50. It’s lovely.

Saw the place with new eyes and got some feckin great foreground rock photos. Well, I assume I did. Going to have to wait until the film is out of the chemicals later on to see the actual results. Then it’s down to a few possibly hectic weeks of scanning and laying out pages before the deadline. My deadline. 2nd June.

The idea of produce an (albeit smaller) book in one month is an interesting undertaking. I’m sure I’ll get it done and submitted in time, I’m just not too sure what kind of state it’ll be in when the final PDF is uploaded.

The previous book I worked on took what seemed an eternity of selecting images, doing layouts, revising those layouts, further revising layouts, coming up with a page order, redoing that page order and well, you get the idea. I’ll have to get off my arse and blog a bit about that first book project too.

But I think my original point was that The Burren is amazing. Go there. While you’re there, look out for that mad house outside Lisdoonvarna with all the crazy concrete animal sculptures in the garden.