Photographing the Alphabet ~ A
It is time I began another challenge on my ‘To Do List for 2013‘, to photograph the alphabet.
I didn’t mean to line up each of the letters, but years ago it would have been an easy task with magnetic letters on the fridge. We actually had two sets of them and the numbers. Each evening the ten words of the spelling homework were lined up in a column.
For the next twenty six Saturdays, this challenge will have pride of place. The plan this time round, is to take the letters in order and find a word beginning with that letter and a photograph or photographs to go with it.
Ancient - Giant’s Causeway
The Giant’s Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption. It is located in County Antrim on the north east coast of Northern Ireland.
Many features in the surrounding landscape have acquired names such as the famous wishing chair, the giants boot, the ladies fan, the giants organ, the chimney stacks, the giants chair, to name a few.
The area is a haven for sea birds such as fulmar, petrel, cormorant, shag, redshank guillemot and razorbill.
The weathered rock formations host a number of rare and unusual plants including sea spleenwort, hare’s foot trefoil, vernal squill, sea fescue and frog orchid. ~ Wikipedia
The Laughing Housewife said,
February 9, 2013 at 11:37 am
Interesting challenge!
Rummuser said,
February 9, 2013 at 1:05 pm
Fascinating. There is a bridge called Sri Ram Sethu in the South of India with its own myth and controversy, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%27s_Bridge Oddly enough, the Brits called it Adams Bridge fitting nicely with your challenge!
Grannymar said,
February 9, 2013 at 1:13 pm
Tilly - I will do my best. The challenge will to find variety.
Ramana - That is amazing.
Mike said,
February 9, 2013 at 1:39 pm
Interesting photos. This is actually a feature that I had read about before and seen pictures of.
Grannymar said,
February 9, 2013 at 2:12 pm
Mike - By American standards, it is very small, but way more ancient than I am!
gigi-hawaii said,
February 9, 2013 at 3:50 pm
Are these your own photos? If so, awesome! Unusual volcanic formations, not seen in Hawaii…yet.
Grannymar said,
February 9, 2013 at 4:18 pm
Gigi - All the photos were taken with my FujFilm. Some of them are from a few years ago and from different months of the year.
kenju said,
February 9, 2013 at 4:55 pm
I have always wanted to see all that in person. How interesting it is!!
Grannymar said,
February 9, 2013 at 7:37 pm
Judy - The cliff edge walk is amazing. We did it when Elly was about six years old. Alas, some of it is railed off now because it is deemed too dangerous.
Dianne said,
February 9, 2013 at 8:38 pm
Wonderful! I have never been to Ireland, but my son and his wife visited Dublin a while back, as did my sister back in the early 1960s. I doubt I will get there now. Sigh. Dianne
PS clever project to photograph the alphabet. Maybe I will be a copycat someday.
wisewebwoman said,
February 10, 2013 at 2:04 am
I’ve been there twice, GM, and it is awe inspiring and I love the legend associated with it too. We learned it in school 200 years ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant’s_Causeway
XO
WWW
Beeblu said,
February 10, 2013 at 6:03 am
A dramatic and beautiful landscape
Grannymar said,
February 10, 2013 at 8:04 am
Dianne - We all gain inspiration from each other, so I hope you do take up this idea and I look forward to seeing how you deal with it.
WWW - I am only about an hour from the Giant’s Causeway, so it is a regular stop when taking my visitor’s to see the beauty spots.
Beeblu - On a clear day. it is wonderful.
Jay from The Depp Effect said,
February 10, 2013 at 5:01 pm
GREAT photos!! I have never been to the Giant’s Causeway, but it’s definitely on my ‘to do’ list! I know it will be fascinating, and it’s certainly beautiful.
One day….
Grannymar said,
February 10, 2013 at 5:09 pm
To appreciate the Giant’s Causeway and the North Antrim Coast, you need a full long summers day there.
Alice said,
February 13, 2013 at 7:44 pm
No doubt that’ll lead to many new discoveries–or re-discoveries as it were!
Sounds like fun.
Grannymar said,
February 13, 2013 at 7:52 pm
Alice - right now I am planning the next episode.