Looking at leaves and dirt is just one of my many compulsions. I don’t know much about the names of plants and trees, but I can talk to you all day about their textures and …
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Author: Tim
The Tree
all images ©Tim Kovar 2021
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Good Day
Keep looking. Maybe I’ll write a longer description of why I make these shots. This year I keep coming across articles on the topic of ‘photography as meditation’. Why do some of us use a …
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Green and Grey
So maybe this August wasn’t the ideal time to travel around Ireland. We weren’t going any where else, so off we went. I think we were on ‘holidays’ for a grand total of nine days, …
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Wandering in Donegal
hey, this is what passes for holidays these days. We had a really nice short visit to Donegal in August, even though it rained *most of the time.
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Metaphor 2021
The 2021 version of Metaphor was completed in June. Metaphor is a magazine of photography by the Year 1 students on the BA Photography course in the Technological University Dublin. The project helps the students …
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Greener Than You
Worms love me. For decades I’ve been composting every bit of material possible in my back garden: not just vegetable scraps but cardboard, paper, dog poo, and coffee grounds. I throw away as little as …
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Why I hate plastic, and I think you should too.
13/7/20 Tim Kovar (Tim is a lecturer in photography in TU Dublin, but has been studying plastic waste since he was a child walking on the beaches of Florida.) Plastic waste is a big problem. …
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Back to the land
-or- How hard is it to create a circular economy? I’ve always been bothered by waste. When I was 12 or 13 I was making pasta for lunch. My mom saw me trying to pull …
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Walking through a crisis
During this covid-time we’re all worried about breathing, face-masks, sanitising hands and not touching our faces. Me, I kept looking at my feet.
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