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whoRya

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Fantastic photograph - Mournes
« on: February 28, 2011 »
Credit due to Johnjoes on Mountainviews.ie for this one.

Notice the Aviva Stadium in Dublin in the bottom left of the foreground and the Mournes looking fantastic in the background.

 
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Re: Fantastic photograph - Mournes
« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2011 »
don't they look big from that angle  :o , here's a pic from my house in the dark last night, just a pity there's a tree in the way  :'( maybe tonight i'll make the effort to walk past the tree for a better pic  ;D

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Re: Fantastic photograph - Mournes
« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2011 »
great pic indeed, but r u sure its the mournes
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Re: Fantastic photograph - Mournes
« Reply #3 on: February 28, 2011 »
Wait a minute?!  You can see the Mournes from Dublin?  Is it April 1st already?
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Re: Fantastic photograph - Mournes
« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2011 »
I'm glad its not just me that looked at that photo with some scepticism! The Wicklows are my home mountains and I ain't ever seen that view!!
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Re: Fantastic photograph - Mournes
« Reply #5 on: February 28, 2011 »
Quote from: Paul72 on February 28, 2011
Wait a minute?!  You can see the Mournes from Dublin?  Is it April 1st already?

My geography is shite but if you where up the Wicklow mountains looking that direction , I'm probably wrong so will go study a map
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Re: Fantastic photograph - Mournes
« Reply #6 on: February 28, 2011 »
Quote from: Samm on February 28, 2011
I'm glad its not just me that looked at that photo with some scepticism! The Wicklows are my home mountains and I ain't ever seen that view!!

Yip my geography is shite
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Re: Fantastic photograph - Mournes
« Reply #7 on: February 28, 2011 »
here's a pic of the mournes today from Banbridge direction (Katesbridge), they look a lot bigger in this one than my usual view from Downpatrick, no idea what the view from Dublin is though
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Re: Fantastic photograph - Mournes
« Reply #8 on: February 28, 2011 »
If you look at a map of Ireland, follow the line as the crow flies from the south of Dublin towards the Mournes, there actually only is about 30 or so miles of land before you hit the sea then that is it until you get to the Mournes.  I would say following that line, the land ends about Balbriggan.

The picture was taken from on top of Three Rock (beside Two Rock Mountain).

If you start to put a few names to the hills, it makes sense, no?  Donard and Bearnagh being very distinctive.

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Re: Fantastic photograph - Mournes
« Reply #9 on: March 01, 2011 »
Forgetting about the mountains, even Dublin looks wrong from that angle. I'll be there in a week and my folks live just below Three Rock, so I'll take a photo for comparison!

But on the mountains, you never see the Wicklows that clearly from the Mournes, so you shouldn't see it the other way round either!!
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Re: Fantastic photograph - Mournes
« Reply #10 on: March 01, 2011 »
Of course after saying all that I'm bound to be wrong and that will have been the view I grew up with my whole life!! At that point I'll be blaming senility!!
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Re: Fantastic photograph - Mournes
« Reply #11 on: March 01, 2011 »
When you are down Samm, be sure and look East also>
(Another one from Johnjoes)
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Re: Fantastic photograph - Mournes
« Reply #12 on: March 01, 2011 »
Well I'll say this for him, he had great visibility that day! Beautiful picture.
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Re: Fantastic photograph - Mournes
« Reply #13 on: July 15, 2012 »
******Bump to an old thread.*****

I was travelling back from holidays on the Holyhead>Dublin ferry the other day and got a fantastic view of the Mournes.  I took this picture when the ferry was only about 20-30 minutes out from the port.  I just couldn't capture the detail that I could see with my own eyes.  The camera is a point and click effort.  Even so, it is easy to discern many of the mountains.

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Re: Fantastic photograph - Mournes
« Reply #14 on: July 16, 2012 »
Here's the full panoramic shot from Binnian summit camp


master shadow by cue13, on Flickr


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