Giant steps, a photo from Antrim, Northern Ireland

Photographer's Note

The Giant's Causeway lies at the foot of the basalt cliffs along the sea coast on the edge of the Antrim plateau in Northern Ireland. It is made up of some 40,000 massive black basalt columns sticking out of the sea. Geological studies of these formations over the last 300 years have greatly contributed to the development of the earth sciences, and show that this striking landscape was caused by volcanic activity during the Tertiary, some 50–60 million years ago.
The Giant's Causeway is a Unesco World Heritage Site.

Legend:

It is easy to see how these almost perfectly symmetrical formations would be viewed as otherworldly by our earlier ancestors and how the Giant’s Causeway would give rise to colourful legend. The story goes that mythical Irish giant Finn MacCool built the causeway to get to Scotland and battle with a rival giant called Benandonner. When he got there he found that the Scottish giant was asleep but also far bigger than himself, so Finn returned back across the causeway. When Benandonner woke up he came across the causeway intent on fighting Finn. Finn’s wife dressed up her husband as a baby and when Benandonner arrived she said Finn wasn’t home and to be quiet not to wake up the baby. When Benandonner saw the ‘baby’ he decided that if the baby was that big, Finn must be massive. So he turned tail and fled back across the causeway ripping it up as he went. All that remains are the ends, here at the Giant’s Causeway and on the island of Staffa in Scotland where similar formations are found.

I will post more and different views soon..

Sorry..the frame was supposed to be white..but my first experiments with "GIMP" did not go exactly as I imagined...;o) eventually I will get there.

dabri, Paolo, AmiBe, skeelerik, gaby, Gix, weswang, singuanti, RGatward, sarju, Tue, capthaddock, mjparker, Vagabond marcou esta nota como útil

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dabri (1692) 2005-05-23 5:41

Ciao Leonie,
sono sempre stato attratto da queste conformazioni basaltiche!
Grazie per aver condiviso questo documento così ben fotografato.

Ciao,
Davide

Paolo (41258) 2005-05-23 5:42

Excellent POV Leonie!
that seems a real street that eneded in the sea.
colors and light are amazing.
thanks, ciao

dkeus31 (27739) 2005-05-23 5:48

Bonjour Léonie,
Joli cadrage favorisant l'avant plan détaillé.
Amusant, on croirait voir la curbure de l'horizon.

dolin (7369) 2005-05-23 6:00

Hello Léonie.
Jolie prise avec une belle profondeur.
J'aime bien cette texture formée par ces pierres.
Jolie netteté, belles couleurs et très bon choix de cadrage vertical.
Bien vu et bien fait.
Fred

jemaflor (146382) 2005-05-23 6:01

Salut Léonie,
Un lieu impressionnnant, belle mise en valeur avec ce large avant plan ... et de plus sous le soleil. Bien vu.

AmiBe (6042) 2005-05-23 6:03

Hello Leonie,
wow, quel site intéressant et étonnant.
J'aime beaucoup ta compo avec la grande importance donnée à ces rochers de basalte.
Bien vu !

bantonbuju (51815) 2005-05-23 7:05

hi leonie, this is great - the pov with such a deep dof works always very well, particularly well here with the repetitive patterns;
great colours, sharpness;
have a nice week, jerzy

Zepi (22848) 2005-05-23 7:20

Hello Leonie,
Très belle composition !
J’aime beaucoup la place énorme que prend ce superbe premier plan !
Très belles couleurs, excellent cadrage ! !
Beau travail
Amicalement
Sébastien

gaby (19819) 2005-05-23 7:38

Hi Léonie,
Fantastique profondeur de champ - c'est superbe et en plus très piqué -
C'est vraiment très bien réalisé -
Merci et bonne journée
Gaby

toni_al (15875) 2005-05-23 8:03

Salut léonie
Belle profondeur et très joli cadrage
A+
Toni

Cos (1562) 2005-05-23 8:28

Hi Leonie
A great POV of the Giant's Causeway. The colours and sharpness are excellent.
Regards, Sarah

Gix (3565) 2005-05-23 10:00

Hi Leonie,
grazie per avermi fatto conoscere queste 'costruzioni' geologiche così particolari. Eccellente la scelta dell'inquadratura: si vede bene la geometria esagonale delle colonne e nello stesso tempo si ha l'idea di una penisola che entra nel mare.
Molto bella! Mi meraviglia che l'orizzonte sia così curvato, la tua Kodak ha un grandangolo molto spinto ?
ciao, Giorgio

donluicu (24741) 2005-05-23 11:00

Leonie
j'avais hate de voir ta vue de la fameuse giant's causeway...j'etais deçu des miennes (peut etre posterai-je quand même...)
Tu a de bien jolies couleurs ce jour-là..et le gris-marron tranche bien avec les bleus...c tres bien vu.ciao
loic

weswang (18247) 2005-05-23 12:08

Hi Leonie, A nice capture of the interesting looking giant stepping stones. Good details in the foreground and repetiotion of the similar stones all the way to far background.
Nice composition and nice shot.

telthebell (710) 2005-05-23 12:54

excellent capture

MvS (4163) 2005-05-23 13:43

Hi Leonie.
Good to see your first GIMP frame. I think the colour is a good choise, maybe better than white. I am certainly not a frame expert, so if you come by a better way of producing frames, don't forget to tell me.
Thanks,
Magnus

clodreno (0) 2005-05-23 15:56

une belle image Léonie et un endroit où j'ai toujours voulu me rendre, sans jamais le faire.. Qui sait!!
Pour le cadre, en Blanc ce serait mieux, mais pas grave...

singuanti (15250) 2005-05-23 21:50

Hi Leonie. First off a great note and thanks for the effort you put forth there. I like how you have this shot angled down so we can the basalt. You have a very cool depth here plus the shapes are a great addition. Lastly the water looks most inviting. Well seen Leonie!

flydragon (0) 2005-05-24 2:46

hello Léonie
tres belle image et belle composition
j'aime le vertical
avec une note intéressante ;o)
mefie toi des cadres des fois ça tue les images
A+
••simon••

RGatward (20108) 2005-05-24 3:13

Something different here. Good idea to realise the graphism present in this natural phenomenon. Being the master (or mistress) of the landscape, this must be quite a radical departure, but I think you could have gone further and got lower, and with less, or no, sky. ANyway, a nice result

PixelTerror (0) 2005-05-24 5:43

Salut Leonie,
Tu as trouve un beau point de vue ici pour donner a ces rochers l'aparence d'une langue qui s'avance dans la mer, c'est bien vu et ca donne de la profondeur a ta photo, ainsi que le cadrage en portrait. La couleur de la mer derriere est intense, et la courbure de l'horizon due a la distortion de ton objectif est amusante.
Dis donc, ensoleille et lumineux, l'Irlande, je suis impressione !
Bonne soiree,
jean-Yves

loupiot (3909) 2005-05-24 6:33

Bonjour Léonie,
Merci de nous présenter la célèbre Giant's Causeway. Une bonne composition, et une image très lumineuse. Merci pour le partage.

desman (2222) 2005-05-24 7:03

Des volcans là-bas !!! j'arrive...

sarju (5324) 2005-05-24 15:55

Salut Leonie
mercis pour une note tres instructif ...
I had'nt heard about theis place before ...
maintenant je rechercherai l'article de journal pour la formation des cette structures ... merci pour partage
a bientot ... sarju
PS: I can't believe the extent to which these structures are symmetrical ... I hope my french is intelligble for understanding. cheers

Tue (91658) 2005-05-24 18:55

Hi Léonie,
Yeah, I've heard about this place, it looks very special! Thank your very much for the interesting story about it! :-D
Groetjes,
Lars

capthaddock (28790) 2005-05-25 15:48

Leonie - this is in an entirely different universe than the human circus I saw there. I especially like the well defined hexagons at the bottom you put there.

jrzufferey (7305) 2005-05-28 5:36

Cette formation basaltique est incroyablement rendue belle par ta photographie.Un grand pavement qui va finir dans la mer, une voie royal. Bravo l'image est magnifique. Amitié/jr

greg64g (11193) 2005-06-01 0:17

Hello Leonie,

Superbe cette vue, j'aime l'horizon un peu courbe, la aussi j'imagine voir cette vue sous plusieurs meteo, par exemple la brume.
super
merci
greg

joseelias (0) 2005-06-06 8:52

I’ve seen some images of this place but I never cease to be amazed by these natural works of art. Your POV is quite nice because it creates a good sense of distance by opposing a very near foreground against the distant sea. The small curve of the shore is the key to break the total symmetry of the composition. Good colors and sharpness.

ngythanh (8458) 2005-06-27 21:25

I love the way you "bend" the horizon.
And you don't want me to just repeat all the good words friends already said.

Cheers!

(How are you doing these days?)

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Copyright: Leonie von Hausen (Leonie) (8809)
Genre: Lugares
Medium: Cor
Date Taken: 2005-05-13
Categories: Natureza
Camera: Kodak CX7430
Exposição: f/5.6, 1/350 segundos
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Versão da Foto: Versão Original
Tema(s): Best of Ireland, The Giant's Causeway [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2005-05-23 5:38
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