Last Saturday I headed out for a trip with my camera to capture some of the beautiful scenery around where I live. The above image is of Cross Shreen, which is located high up on the Torr Road overlooking the small village of Cushendun. I took a selection of pictures using my Nikon D40 Digital SLR camera and I use Google’s Picasa free photo editing software to “touch up” the images slightly, usually to straighten the image in my case.
Picasa is a wonderful little photo editing suite which is ideal for novice users or someone who has photography as a hobby and does not want to invest time or money in other more expensive photo editing software.
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Below is another image of Cross Shreen which I captured. This shows it from a different angle. It is a Celtic cross marking the grave of Shane O’Neill. His headless corpse was tumbled into a pit where an ancient church and churchyard once existed on the site. But later it was removed to Glenarm Churchyard. His head, pickled in a pip kin, was dispatched to Dublin , where the English paid a reward for it, and they displayed it on a pike above the Tower in Dublin Castle in 1567.
The Antrim Glens and the north coast is a wonderful part of the world for anyone who is in Northern Ireland either as a visitor or a citizen to come and talk a look around.
I shall be posting more images from round this area again so please come back and have a look.
William
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Hey, I am famous my name on a photo
Yes of course, credit where credit is due!
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