Ashbourne the land of crops

If you have not much time and like to see some crops and take some pictures of haybays and country scene, drop in Ashbourne. Its about 10 km from Dublin city.

On you way, you find many interesting artifacts which is still display along the road. Don't think you can find any bronze age stuff here.

A boring coolie chained to the ground.

Shooting a nice portraiture out in the field, there are few taboos you need to observed, be it padi fields or any field with one or two colors background. You don't want your subject grinning at your lens, you have to tell them to keep their fingers. They love to show peace sign all the time and have no meaning at all.

Quite often many camera holders makes the same mistakes over and over again. If you visit a beautiful scenic spot. They are so engross over the place and forget the details. As they start looking through his collection. He wonder why he did not capture the crops.

 Think of bread, beers, stout and breakfast. The Chinese proverbs says 'Every grain is equivalent to 100 drops of sweat'. I remember my mum used to teach us never waste a grain of rice as you suffer for the rest of your life looking for it. I don't understand that.

However after going through the stage of life. I look at every one across the WWW. I think I understand what she is trying to say to me now.

Everyday you open up your facebook, you see sickness, politic, children, abuse, drugs, killing, humor and sadness. You see lots of people posting pictures of good foods they eat, where they went for dinner, what they drink. But they never post the most important of all. Its the staple food they grew up with, be it potatoes or rice. Its the unsung hero of all images. Ask a kid today where do Chicken Rice come from or where does Chips comes from? They will answer Melaka or Chicken rice stall and Mc Donald. Funny!

Through your lens, wherever you go, I am sure you bound to capture something be it from your samsung or iphone. It is very important to capture not just the food when you eat. Try capture their hand movement, their gestures, the waitress, the chef, the laughter and many more things going on around you.

King George IV was here so do many celebrities such as Guns and Roses, U2 and many more to mention.
This is Slane Castle the venue for super big concert.

Time to head back home, the leaves about to change colour, Autumn is getting nearer, Summer is gone.
Ashbourne have nothing to shout about except Slane Castle and the fields of Gold.