In February 2014, I installed WordPress offline using Wamp server, and started this blog. Only a couple of my first posts survived until this day. My initial idea was to create a portfolio-type blog, and I wrote ten posts and stuffed them with children pictures. When I went online on St Patrick’s Day, I got a few ‘likes’ and was very pleased that someone took interest in my creation. My very first followers were https://lisalabelleblog.wordpress.com/, https://poemsandpeople.wordpress.com/ and http://www.tonyeveling.com/blog/. They are not blogging anymore, I am afraid.
Then came a nightmare. Certain webpages linked to my posts tagged ‘children photography’, and certain sort of spam flooded my Spam folder. Akismet catches spam, but doesn’t protect from those who deliver it. I deleted my posts. Only after a year I dared to use this tag again. Nothing happened so far, but the same spammers linked to one of my Saltee Island posts, and I was getting hundreds of spam comments daily until I closed the comments altogether. WordPress is not all white and fluffy.
These ten bloggers are among my first followers, still active and sparkling with talent. They have been my friends and supporters since early spring 2014.
Sheri de Grom, Marcus Dilano Photography, Moodphoto, Jason, Francis, Charly, Mihran, Leyla , Harrie Nijland, Jet Eliot
There are more than a hundred bloggers in my community since 2014 – great friends and brilliant writers and photographers. I cannot name all of you here, but you know who you are. Thank you for blogging and reading my blog! Way to go to us all!
There is a potpourri of photographs from some of my older blog posts. They are not linked to the post or larger versions. Please scroll down – I hope you remember some of them. Thank you so much for your visits over these two years!
Green St Patrick’s Day illumination in Carrick on Suir, 2014

Spring in Ireland.




Clancy Brothers festival


Edinburgh

Knockmealdown Mountains, Co Tipperary

Cliffs of Moher


Saltee Islands




Street photography




Birds of River Suir


Herbs




Scarecrow Festival in Co Laois


Patsy Gibbons and his foxes


Carrick O Rede Rope Bridge

Giants Causeway

Dark Hedges



Irish summer


Sunsets


Water


Barcelona



Faceless

Trees



Fairy tale

Another spring



Ancient

Mystery

Foxes


Hoodoos

More birds


Streets




Thank you again!
Have a wonderful weekend!
Congrats
I am happy to be part of it all
As always Sheldon
Thank you Sheldon! Blog is nothing without a reader.
Reblogged this on Kate McClelland.
Thank you for the reblog! 🙂
Amazing photo’s, you capture the ‘moment’ very well.
Thank you for sharing a portrait of your world 🙂
Thank you so much, Mark!
Congratulations! It is just so great, you have a fantastic blog. I have to admit you’ve got done what I never managed. I have very few followers who rarely comment or read anything. I am thrilled about the interaction on your blog. You are definitely doing great!
Thank you so much! Having many followers means that I visit other blogs only once a week, or even in two weeks, and all these wonderful people still bear with me, bless them all! 🙂
Congrats 😀
Thanks 🙂
Many congratulations on two great years of blogging. I’m sorry to hear about the dodgy start though. (I heard a similar story from another blogging friend, too.) Your photos are stunning – and such a wonderful variety. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed following you, Inese, ans hope to read many more wonderful posts.
Thank you so much for your kind comment, Millie, and for all the support! Thank you for your fantastic books, and inspiring blog posts! I am very grateful for following and for the spirit of blogger friendship- I have never said that I ‘write for myself’ 🙂 Thank you again!
Thank you so much, Inese. Believe me, I really value your support and friendship on WP, too. Long may it last. 🙂
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Congrats for this amazing, and post! This post really wants to make me go to Ireland! How beautiful.
Thank you so much! 🙂
Happy anniversary, Inese! I love your photography.
Thank you so much, Herman!
Happy anniversary! Some wonderful shots there. Shame about the problems with spammers. With best wishes.
Thank you so much! Yes, they scared me all right. Another unpleasant experience was a visit and ‘like’ from an adult blog – only on a post with children photographs, nowhere else. I was very upset. After that I am not posting children photography-themed blogs anymore, only random pictures. They cannot track random pictures.
Congratulations Inese for this magnificent blog. Your photography and stories are an inspiration 🙂
Thank you so much, Montserrat! Only thanks to my blogger friends! I don’t write for myself 🙂
An excellent selection of photographs… you are truly talented, dear Inese…
Happy blog anniversary… sending love and best wishes ⭐️✔️⭐️ Aquileana
Thank you so much for your support, dear Aquileana. I wouldn’t carry on without my blogger friends. xx ❤
I remember some of those photographs. They are all absolutely fantastic. I love reading your posts so keep em coming 🙂 Have a great day x
Thank you so much for your kind words!
Exqusite photos.Jalal
Thank you so much for your kind comment, Jalal!
My pleasure and always a pleasure to visit your blog. Have a delightful weekend.Jalal
We are having St. Patrick’s Day today. It is a fun day when people generally celebrate the spring and showcase the best of their community. Happy St. Patrick’s Day, and best of Irish Luck to you and your family! 🙂
I wish you and your The same Happy St.Patrick’s Day. We are celebrating too at our local church the Night of Columbus are sponsoring the party.And Best of Irish Luck to you Inese.
Thank you Jalal!
You welcome .
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What a magnificent selection of photographs. There wasn’t a dull one among them. Hearty congratulations on completing your second year of blogging. 🙂
Thank you so much for your support and kind words, Bun! Hanging on for two years is something to celebrate. I gave up some things during this time, but not blogging 🙂
Well done for sticking with it. Two years is a long time in the blogosphere, I’ve learned.
It sure is. Thank you for your support!
You’re welcome, Inese. 🙂
I enjoyed every photo. They are gorgeous. Congratulation for two years blogging!
Thank you so much for your kind comment!
What a banquet of images! Congrats on your two year anniversary!
Thank you so much! 🙂 Just scrolled through my old posts.
Wonderful, wonderful photographs! Congratulations on your two year journey!
Thank you so much for your support!
And of course… Many happy returns of the day. (An english expression I find very pleasant. So hoho!)
Thank you! 🙂
Very lovely pictures. There are so many, and great ones, it is hard to comment on all. There are two I find particularly nice, because they’re in a row, at a festival: the children playing music and then the young women below, As if we’d taken a time tunnel. Tous mes compliments…
Thank you for scrolling through the pictures 🙂 Those of musicians come from my blog post about Clancy Brothers festival in Carrick on Suir.
I will have to look it up in more detail. 🙂
I have found your post. Fascinating. Such merriment and beauty. And the owlet! (We would call it an Orfraie). And the song. Never heard it before but committed to memory. Lovely.
(Do you speak Gaelic?)
I don’t speak Gaelic. This video with our beloved Frank Kelly is about speaking Gaelic in Ireland:)
That video is a roar. 🙂 I am Breton, but I don’t speak it. Fortunately I still have the music. A biniou (bagpipe) and a “bombarde” (short flute) take me to heaven. For five minutes, after which my wife says: “What’s all this whining”? 😉
Haha, the sound of bagpipes is not to everyone’s taste 🙂
Indeed…
PS. I sometimes think that bagpipes were invented to mimic the song of the wind on our celtic lands…
Yes, I see… One needs a lot of prep-talk before listening to the bagpipes 😉