retreat :)

When on our retreat in , we were told that everyone has a monster and like Saint Kevin we must be -friend that monster . The retreat taught me a lot but to be-friend the monster inside yourself - that sentence stood out to me the most . The whole day was inspiring and en lighting it was peaceful and relaxing . I really enjoyed the retreat that i went on with my class and i really enjoyed the messages that i learned on the retreat .

We went to Glendalough for the retreat i recommend going there to everyone , you will discover so much .

PhotoGraphy :)

This blog is going to focus on the national geographic , There is a national geographic channel and there is a national geographic magazine - one for children and one for adults . The national geographic (in their words) is "inspiring to people to care about the planet since 1888" . By reading / watching the national geographis you can learn so much about so much from the "the Genographic project" -  this is a "landmark study of the human journey " to learing about pirals that have been found on mars !! there is a huge amount of interesting inforation in the national georaphic , i learned the information above by looking at their website http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ the site is definitley worth looking at . There is such a wide variety of topics however my favourite thing to look at has to be the photos taken - they are beyond amazing . The national geographic do a thing called the photo of the day . The photo of the day can be seen on the national geographic website . There are so many photos of geography and nature it is impossible to pick a favourite . To 
look at the photo of the day all you have to do is go to the national geographic website (the link is above ) click photography than click photo of the day , you can also click photo tips - this is really helpful and if you follow the tips you are sure to get a good picture . Not only is there a photo of the day but there is also different photo galleries e.g there is the best of March , the best of July - the best of ...- all the months in the year , on this website you are pretty spoilt for choice when looking for a nice photo . Someday i hope that one of my photos will be good enough to be the photo  of the day till then i will just appreciate the ones that are already there :) as i said before i can pick a favourite but here are a few photos that i really like :) .    All these photos were taken from the national geographic website  http://www.nationalgeographic.com   


 - i found this one under landscapes i LOVE the colours .
 - this one was found under"underwater" , it reminds me so much of finding Nemo !!
 this is from the album "Animals" ...so cute !!
 - from "nature and weather" ...looks cold
Go to the website and see all the photos they are FANTASTIC !!

Geography = Photography :)

This blog focuses on the photos taken by Charlie Waite - i choose to focus on his works because Waite is associated with taking photos in countries all around the world . I think it is interesting to see how the landscape in each countries differ .
These are my favourite photos from the different regions Waite has been in .

- taken by Waite in Africa .- North America
- Mount Fuji Japan   -taken in Spain
-taken in Italy           -taken in Scotland
 - England              -France


- Poland             -Greece

All of thees photos were taken by Charlie Waite , i got all the photos from his www.charliewaite.com/index . You will be able to find out the area of the country Wait was in when he took thephotos . You will also be able to see many more pictures by Waite on the websie above . Enjoy !! - the photos are great !! :)

So this is a second blog about landscape photographers , this blog focuses on the photos taken by Marc Adamus - his pictures are so amazing that they don't even look real !!! . they are magnificent ... i think that his pictures show just how beautiful nature really is . This is a link to his gallery  www.marcadamus.com  . I linked the pictures he has taken to geography by focusing on one picture in particular called "Under the lights" - this is one of my favourite photos , i love the colours and i like the way it looks so unusual . The photo was taken in Mount Monolith, Tombstone Range, Yukon . I had never seen a picture like this - the icicles are huge !Every thing about it is unbelievable .

 - I got the picture from google images but it was taken by Marc Adamus .:)

In his gallery (link posted above ). There are pictures that are ( i think ) even better then this one , be sure to check them out !

 

geography =photography .

So one of my favourite hobbies is photography . I love to take pictures of everything ! . My pictures are not that intresting and are mostly pictures of friends and family but i do like taking pictures of landscape and nature - that is how i linked my hobby to geography . One of my favourite landscape photographers are Jim Brandenburg ( from the prairies of Minnesota ) you can look at his pictiures in his online gallery http://jimbrandenburg.com/ the pictures are amazing they are so much better then mine ! . I love his pictures so much that i can't pick a favourite thats why i put up the link so you can see decide yourself what is your favourite image .
A lot of Jims pictures are of lanndscape - for example monuntais ,pictures of nature and differnt types of trees . it is intresting to see how is images are so differnt depending on the country and area were the pictures were taken .
I am going to write blogs about other landscape photographers and will be showeing you some of my favourite pictures they have taken .

wham!!!!!!!!!

So tomorrow it is the music night . Music night in our school is when a class group , a band or a soloist sing or play an instrument . The other two classes are performing "shake it out" together - they have some AMAZING singers so that will be really good ,my class are singing wham wake me up before you go go - it is such a fun upbeat song i mean listening to it just makes me happy ! . Hopefully it will be good , i will let you know how we get on :)

I'm never going to be in the army

Well yesterday we went to brave force , we did this army assault course .... it was so hard . We had to go under thees tunnel things - in the mud . We had to jump over hurdles that were taller than me ! . We had to go through muddy water like a million times .. the water went passed my chin !! the smell was horrific it was disgusting . We had to climb up things that were really high , I'm afraid of heights so that scary . Its hard to describe the stuff that we did . The best thing is to visit www.braveforce.ie then you can see first hard what we went through . Even though it was really disgusting i have to admit I had fun ...sort of :) . I do think that everyone should do it because after ward , after the shower and when you can feel your arms and legs again you are glad that you did it ! i was anyway :) ......I still don't think that i  will join the army any time soon  .