Black & White: Hugh Hamill | Photography

Moving at the Speed of Life

hughwphamill@gmail.com (Hugh Hamill | Photography) — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:57:27 GMT

Commuters in the subway system of Prague, the Czech Republic appear to lean as they travel too quickly through life.

The Great Glow-Worm Hunt

hughwphamill@gmail.com (Hugh Hamill | Photography) — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:56:21 GMT

A crowd of people appear to have captured a giant floating glow-worm in the Old Town Square of Prague, the Czech Republic.

The Birds

hughwphamill@gmail.com (Hugh Hamill | Photography) — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:55:36 GMT

Birds fly around the transparent clock of The Church of the Most Sacred Heart of Our Lord, Prague, the Czech Republic.

Old Town Square

hughwphamill@gmail.com (Hugh Hamill | Photography) — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:54:50 GMT

The Old Town Square in Prague, the Czech Republic.

It Comes For Us All

hughwphamill@gmail.com (Hugh Hamill | Photography) — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:53:56 GMT

The Astronomical Clock in the Old Town Square in Prague, the Czech Republic.

Life is Good

hughwphamill@gmail.com (Hugh Hamill | Photography) — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:53:13 GMT

Two soldiers stand on the bank of the Vltava and contemplate life in Prague, the Czech Republic.

Crane

hughwphamill@gmail.com (Hugh Hamill | Photography) — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:25:04 GMT

A crane stands silhouetted against floodlighting at the docks in Galway City, County Galway, Ireland.

Claw

hughwphamill@gmail.com (Hugh Hamill | Photography) — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:24:40 GMT

A giant metal claw lies idle on the dock in Galway City, County Galway, Ireland.

Nimmo's Pier

hughwphamill@gmail.com (Hugh Hamill | Photography) — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:22:28 GMT

A man stands silhouetted against the lights of Nimmo's Pier, Galway City, Ireland

Starfield

hughwphamill@gmail.com (Hugh Hamill | Photography) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:30:54 GMT

Who knows? A star field in space perhaps, or something else, falling through the atmosphere?

Seaweed & Metal

hughwphamill@gmail.com (Hugh Hamill | Photography) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:30:51 GMT

A clump of seaweed clings to the metal railings of the Blackrock Diving Board, Salthill, Galway, Ireland.

K1000

hughwphamill@gmail.com (Hugh Hamill | Photography) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:28:55 GMT

A Pentax K1000.

Walling

hughwphamill@gmail.com (Hugh Hamill | Photography) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:52:49 GMT

A man builds a stone wall in Connemara, County Galway, Ireland.

Locked Fast...

hughwphamill@gmail.com (Hugh Hamill | Photography) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:52:25 GMT

Dreams fled away, this country bedroom, raw
With the touch of the dawn, wrapped in a minor peace,
Hears through an open window the garden draw
Long pitch black breaths, lay bare its apple trees,
Ripe pear trees, brambles, windfall-sweetened soil,
Exhale rough sweetness against the starry slates.
Nearer the river sleeps St. John's, all toil
Locked fast inside a dream with iron gates.

Domestic Autumn, like an animal
Long used to handling by those countrymen,
Rubs her kind hide against the bedroom wall
Sensing a fragrant child come back again
- Not this half-tolerated consciousness
That plants its grammar in her yielding weather
But that unspeaking daughter, growing less
Familiar where we fell asleep together.

Wakeful moth wings blunder near a chair,
Toss their light shell at the glass, and go
To inhabit the living starlight. Stranded hair
Stirs on still linen. It is as though
The black breathing that billows her sleep, her name,
Drugged under judgement, waned and - bearing daggers
And balances--down the lampless darkness they came,
Moving like women : Justice, Truth, such figures.

Another September by Thomas Kinsella

Hanging Shoes

hughwphamill@gmail.com (Hugh Hamill | Photography) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:50:52 GMT

Shoes hang on a telephone wire in Galway City, Ireland.

Galway Cathedral

hughwphamill@gmail.com (Hugh Hamill | Photography) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:50:44 GMT

Galway Cathedral, Galway City, Ireland.

Look Before You Leap

hughwphamill@gmail.com (Hugh Hamill | Photography) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:49:14 GMT

A young couple regard the ancient exhortation to "Look before you Leap".

Derek

hughwphamill@gmail.com (Hugh Hamill | Photography) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:49:11 GMT

A chiaroscuro portrait of a smoking man.

Branches, The Sky Darkening

hughwphamill@gmail.com (Hugh Hamill | Photography) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:22:17 GMT

Bare branches contrasted against a darkening winters sky in Claregalway, County Galway, Ireland.

Claddagh Swans

hughwphamill@gmail.com (Hugh Hamill | Photography) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:21:05 GMT

Swans socializing at the Claddagh, a fishing village in Galway City, County Galway, Ireland.

A Ghostly Castle

hughwphamill@gmail.com (Hugh Hamill | Photography) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:21:54 GMT

Menlo Castle in Galway City, County Galway, Ireland looks pale and haunted in this infra red image.

Alien Envoys

hughwphamill@gmail.com (Hugh Hamill | Photography) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:21:49 GMT

Two turbines from a wind farm near Spiddal, County Galway, Ireland stand ominously against a white sky, appearing as some alien apparatus of unknown purpose.

Fence the Sky

hughwphamill@gmail.com (Hugh Hamill | Photography) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:21:38 GMT

A wooden fence post and metal fence seem to enclose a big Connemera sky in County Galway, Ireland.

Little School

hughwphamill@gmail.com (Hugh Hamill | Photography) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:21:26 GMT

A road leads to a little disused school house in Connemara, between Barna and Moycullen, County Galway, Ireland.

Little Tree and the Heath

hughwphamill@gmail.com (Hugh Hamill | Photography) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:21:20 GMT

A small tree struggles to grow against the sweeping Connemara wind on this heath between Moycullen and Barna, County Galway, Ireland.

The Road to The Sea

hughwphamill@gmail.com (Hugh Hamill | Photography) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:19:59 GMT

An infra red image of a road as it crawls down a hill towards the Atlantic Ocean near Spiddal, County Galway, Ireland.

Up The Road To School

hughwphamill@gmail.com (Hugh Hamill | Photography) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:17:47 GMT

What was once a short walk up the road to school has turned into a long drive for the local people who used to attend this now closed Connemara Schoolhouse in County Galway, Ireland.

Yield!

hughwphamill@gmail.com (Hugh Hamill | Photography) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:17:40 GMT

A triangular 'Yield!' sign stands out, silhouetted against the Connemara summer sky between Moycullen and Barna, County Galway, Ireland.

The Wheel in the Sky

hughwphamill@gmail.com (Hugh Hamill | Photography) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:17:03 GMT

An infra red picture of a wind turbine, part of a wind farm near Spiddal, County Galway, Ireland.