The Glenariff Series
This gallery is a series of
photographs taken in Glenariff County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
Although not quite as famous nor spectacular as the Giants Causeway,
Glenariff or "Queen of the Glens" as it's often referred
to is the largest of Antrim's nine glens. It's a near perfect U-shape
valley with rocky precipices rising between 200 and 400 metres up to the
upper moorlands of the Antrim plateau.
Glenariff means "Glen of the Plough"
and to this day we can see the work of generations of farmers in the form
of "ladder farms" that run up the valley sides giving each
farm an equal share of the low lying arable land and high grazing land for
sheep.
Glenariff has been popular
with tourists for over 100 years and from its highest vantage
points it is possible to see clear across
the Irish sea to the Mull of Kintyre in Scotland, and on occasions
even further.
This series of Photographs shows some of the views that tourists travel from near and far to
see, plus a few of the less obvious attractions of the glen.
Canon EOS-1N, 24mm
Wide Angle, 28-105 Zoom, 90mm Macro and film Fuji Sensia II, plus
the obligatory tripod!. Images scanned with a Nikon Coolscan
LS30, all finishing in Adobe Photoshop 5.
