Hats
Description: Been on a bit of an unpleasant medical journey this year and listened to a bunch of podcasts on my issue and this was one of the fun phrases that came up: "I make strong recommendations with weak evidence.", said in jest by a doctor. I reckoned it just had to go on a t-shirt for medical practitioners and/or scientists.
Description: These terms (and more) appeared in government memos, in official and unofficial agency guidance and other documents in the United States under the Trump/Musk presidency in 2025. Some ordered the removal of these words from public-facing websites, or ordered the elimination of other materials in which they might be included. This design is a call to not obey. Use all the words.
Description: These terms (and more) appeared in government memos, in official and unofficial agency guidance and other documents in the United States under the Trump/Musk presidency in 2025. Some ordered the removal of these words from public-facing websites, or ordered the elimination of other materials in which they might be included. This word cloud design is a call to not obey. Use all the words.
Description: I swear this is not a collage, apart from the background I added in. I used to breed Jubilee Orpington chickens for some years. They are a speckled old English breed developed in the late 19th century named after the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria. They are quite rare and I often took photos when I was selling birds or hatching eggs, and one day I almost accidentally snapped a photo of the rooster and this one hen looking at each other. I might be anthropomorphizing but it does look like they are gazing each other lovingly, does it not? This would make a perfect gift or card for chicken breeders.
Description: My mum loved fuchsias. She tenderly grew them as pot plants on our patio and overwintered them in the frost-free basement. She was stunned when she first came to Ireland in summer and saw miles of large fuchsia shrubs lining roadsides in the western regions where winters are mild enough for them to survive. Their delightful deep red and purple flowers contrast with the many shades of green the Irish countryside has to offer. Inspired by Mark Rothko's paintings, here I offer a radical color field abstraction of such scenes: Framed in dark green, five horizontal color bands stand for an overcast sky and fields in different shades of green with a thin color accent band in the red and purple of Fuchsia magellanica.
Description: "Landscape of my imagination" is a digital abstract in earthy colors, very vaguely hinting at a hilly landscape scene. It ranges from warm browns and ocher at the bottom to cool greens and sky-like blues towards the top, composed in overlapping and angled brushstrokes and textural splatter elements.
Description: "Late August, given heavy rain and sun For a full week, the blackberries would ripen. At first, just one, a glossy purple clot Among others, red, green, hard as a knot. You ate that first one and its flesh was sweet Like thickened wine: summer's blood was in it Leaving stains upon the tongue and lust for Picking. Then red ones inked up and that hunger Sent us out with milk cans, pea tins, jam-pots Where briars scratched and wet grass bleached our boots. [...]" (Seamus Heaney) This digitally rendered work is based on a photo I shot during last year's harvest. This years' is about to start. Tarts, jam and juice comin' right up! (Canon EOS 60D DSLR, edits and watercolor rendering in Photoshop CS6)
Description: Dandelion, from French dent-de-lion, meaning "lion's tooth". Now you know why ... ;) Created from two photographs - one my own of dandelion in my garden, the other a distressed background (an originally gray and pink wall by Pawel Czwerwinski (on Unsplash) used under CC0 licence, with thanks). Dandelion shot with a Canon EOS 60D DSLR, layers and other edits in Corel PSPX.
Description: “She turned to the sunlight And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbor: "Winter is dead.” ― A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young Floral abstract created from a close-up photo of one of my tulips and a wall texture, expressive of shorter nights, longer days, and the exuberant explosion of colors in spring.
Description: "Sundown" is a distressed mixed media abstract in blue, orange, very dark tones of aubergine, purple and green and some magenta highlights. It made me think of the poem "Sundown" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The summer sun is sinking low; Only the tree-tops redden and glow: Only the weathercock on the spire Of the neighboring church is a flame of fire; All is in shadow below. O beautiful, awful summer day, What hast thou given, what taken away? Life and death, and love and hate, Homes made happy or desolate, Hearts made sad or gay! ...
Description: Lightness of Being - Meadow Flowers Summer has officially begun and the sides of the track to my house are covered in wildflowers. I don't have lawns and mow these verges once or let my goats graze them down in late summer once most flowers have set seed. For now they are the domain of bees and butterflies and a host of other insects and give me immense enjoyment as well. Foreground: Stellaria. Background: Vetches and buttercup. Canon EOS 60D DSLR Co. Clare, Ireland June 2, 2018
Description: In Chinese philosophy, yin and yang (also yin–yang or yin yang, yinyáng "dark–bright") describe how seemingly opposite or contrary forces may actually be complementary, interconnected, and interdependent in the natural world. I 'pulled' the original less saturated gradient colors from a photo of a rainbow. In this earthy, textured depiction of the yin and yang symbol they represent earth (brown), water / air (blue) and biological life (green) and their intertwined state. Created in Corel PSP X.
Description: Horned cattle - A rare sight these days: We spotted a whole herd in the Espinhaço de Cão mountains (Serra de Espinhaço de Cão) including this beautiful cow and her calf in the Algarve, Portugal in April 2018. The cows all had bells too! Since the land was unfenced and graded into forests I guess the bells are needed for herding. Canon EOS 60D DSLR
Description: Many years ago a friend gave me some cute little ceramic chickens for Easter and every year I use them in my Easter flower bouquet with hazel or birch branches, daffodils and whatever else might be in flower at Easter on my little farm. I think this one would make for a sweet 'Happy Easter' card. Canon EOS 60D DSLR
Description: Taken in the early morning of January 10, 2020 at the back of my place in the west of Ireland, these orange-brown and slate-gray cloud banks look something like an abstract painting depicting the boundary between night and day, juxtaposing a first hint of the rising sun in the bottom left with the disappearing night-time black in the top right of the image. (Canon EOS 60D DSLR)
Description: The door to the magazine at Fortaleza de Sagres in the Algarve, Portugal. The promontory fort was built in the 15th century by Prince Henry the Navigator. The restored magazine is one of several buildings inside the large fortress. Photograph taken in April 2018; Canon EOS 60D DSLR
Description: The single child - One of my hens and her single chick. She tried to hatch out 10 eggs in a shed but over the weeks the magpies kept stealing eggs when she took breaks from hatching and got up to drink and eat something. In the end she only hatched out this one little chick but she's taking great care of it. The hen hatched in the goat shed and seems convinced that she is a goat herself. She hangs out with them in their shed and yard, follows them out into the field... I tried integrating her into a flock but she keeps moving back in the with the goats after a short while. I guess now I have two species-confused personalities dashing around my yard! Canon EOS 60D DSLR
