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Photo of the Day Irish Landscapes
发表于: 2008-8-27 23:22 作者: qwqwqw2589 来源: 『原版英语』
An emerald pasture dotted with daisies and flanked by distant sand dunes rolls to the foot
of a rustic gate and a stone wall on the Irish island of Inishbofin. Picturesque scenes
like this are plentiful on the windy Aran Islands, but tourism driven by the many bed-and-
breakfasts, golf courses, and ferries, is taking a toll on these once-rural landscapes.
(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Ireland on Fast-Forward,"
September 1994, National Geographic magazine)
Photograph by Sam Abell
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qwqwqw2589 (2008-8-27 23:26:44)
"Rugged as the people who settled here more than 3,000 years ago, the sea-chiseled limestone bluffs of Inishmore rise 300 feet above the Atlantic. Inland, hundreds of miles of stone walls ring thin-soiled fields where islanders toil in a land known for ciúnas gan uaigneas, Gaelic for 'quietness without loneliness.'"
— Text from "The Aran Islands: Ancient Hearts Modern Minds," April 1996, National Geographic magazine
(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Ireland on Fast-Forward," September 1994, National Geographic magazine)
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qwqwqw2589 (2008-8-27 23:27:48)
"Kindred headlands called The Three Sisters look to sea near Smerwick on the Dingle
Peninsula. For the ambitious, country lanes lead past sheep paddocks to cities already
bursting with job seekers."
—From "Ireland On Fast-Forward," September 1994, National Geographic magazine
Photograph by Sam Abell
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qwqwqw2589 (2008-8-27 23:28:59)
The swamp woodlands of Ireland's first national park, Killarney, provide habitat for
abundant wildlife, including the only remaining wild herd of red deer in Ireland.
(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Ireland on Fast Forward,"
September 1994, National Geographic magazine)
Photograph by Sam Abell
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qwqwqw2589 (2008-8-27 23:32:48)
Cows graze beside some of the hundreds of miles of stone walls that crisscross Inishmore.
The walls mark field boundaries and also serve a double purpose as well—farmers needed
somewhere to pile the stones they had to remove from their rock-strewn fields in order to
farm.
(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Ireland on Fast Forward,"
September 1994, National Geographic magazine)
Photograph by Sam Abell
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qwqwqw2589 (2008-8-27 23:34:04)
A thousand-year-old headstone stands next to the ruins of an ancient church on Great Skellig Island, off the southwest coast of Ireland. Between the sixth and ninth centuries, the Celtic Christian church spread through Ireland, and the remains of the original monasteries have been preserved on islands like these of Kerry County.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Celts," May 1977, National Geographic magazine)
Photograph by James P. Blair
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qwqwqw2589 (2008-8-27 23:35:58)
"Hikers risk joining the dearly departed by braving the dark crags of the southern Dingle coastline, where foolhardy rock climbers and anglers seeking a better fishing spot are sometimes washed out to sea."
—From "Ireland on Fast Forward," September 1994, National Geographic magazine
Photograph by Sam Abell
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AmWays (2008-8-28 10:37:53)