Showing posts with label ireland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ireland. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 16, 2022

The Header Image Rabbit Hole...

 

Reader Steve sent an email the other day, inquiring about this image from the FFFF post

 

Dear Sir,
I enjoy viewing your website. Thank you for what you do!.
Could you please tell me what this picture is of? Where it is? You posted it on Friday March 11, 2022.

Thank you very much, Steve.

 


It was a cool photo that I felt would go well in the post. I actually thought it was CGI and never

gave a second thought after saving it to my set up folder. Last night, I got some time to research

a little more.  Google and Tineye didn't yeild any results. Looking at the photo a little closer 

there is some writing on the bottom. Aha!  



And... away we go....

 

This is the response I worked on for Steve.

 

Marius Kastečkas, the artist

From what I can find with some searches, he is from Lithuania and now lives in Ireland.

Here's a bunch of links you can enjoy

 


And Facebook


If you scroll down the facebook posts there is this one. He has a lot of other shots of it. 
 
 I believe that is where the image was taken.  ( I was wrong but there are some awesome shots 

of  both skelligs.  The Header image is Little Skellig.  More info at the end of the post )
 
 
 
 skellig.PNG

skellig michael and little skellig. Maybe?? 
 
( As noted I couldn't match the image or find the original so I kept going )
 
 
Steve had me on a deep rabbit hole run.
 
 I spent more time on his, the artist's,  facebook page and finally hit pay dirt.

Here it is. 
 
 Dunmore Head Dingle Ireland.  
 
Between this and the skellig's there is some amazing images.


 

Dunmore head.PNG 



Here's where the skelligs are:




and here is where Dunmore Head is:






You can zoom in, along the coast and see the outcropping in the photo.


https://www.google.com/maps/@52.1097933,-10.4631329,3a,86.9y,263.23h,62.89t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1swzg12E4X_t_7I62r0wFk_Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en 


Enjoy.