Posted on October 28, 2016
“To change in appearance or form, especially strangely or grotesquely; transform.”
MB will not post anything strange or grotesque, but will instead focus on the ‘transform’ element of this weeks challenge.
Our local churches back home at Grange & Patrickswell are almost exclusively used for daytime and daylight activities throughout the year. Living in a very rural location there is no great, or hardly any, need for the opening of the churches after dark, save an occasional evening funeral service.
But at Christmas time each year the churches host Christmas carol services, or midnight masses which are actually on at approx 8pm (an Irish midnight!).
Anyway, it’s interesting to see them in their transformed Christmas state.
Grange Church

Patrickswell Church

Category: Irish man in the Middle East Tagged: Christmas, Church, Grange, Holy Well, Limerick, Midnight mass, Patrickswell, postaday, religion, St Patrick, Transmogrify, Weekly Photo Challenge
Posted on October 21, 2016
‘I was blinded by the light’ – Manfred Mann
Earlier this year, MB was trying to get a shot of the trees behind the visitor center at the lake back home. It was early morning and some rain had fallen during the night. The rain clouds had disappeared before dawn and the sun arose to a clear sky.
But on looking towards the trees, MB was completely blinded by the sun’s reflection off something very bright lying on the ground a few meters forward. MB had to shift his position somewhat to see that the sun was actually shining off a rain puddle, that was a leftover from the night before. Made an interesting addition to the shot.

Category: Irish man in the Middle East Tagged: Photography, postaday, Rainfall, Reflection, Shine, sunshine, Weekly Photo Challenge
Posted on October 14, 2016
Posted on October 7, 2016
Want to introduce non-Irish followers to Lurgan College in the West of Ireland. The college hosts Irish language summer camps and has become a Youtube sensation in recent years with Gaelic language versions of well-known popular songs.
Their most recent upload is Africa (by Toto), in which H20 plays a prominent part:
Category: Irish man in the Middle East Tagged: africa, Colaiste Lurgan, H2O, Kilamanjaro, Lurgan College, postaday, Weekly Photo Challenge
Posted on October 7, 2016
A bunch of people and some elephants messing around in some H2O.

Category: Irish man in the Middle East Tagged: Adventure, Elephants, Goa, H2O, Incredible, india, Mahood, Photography, postaday, Travel, Water, Weekly Photo Challenge
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