Belfast's 'Big Fish'

A most unusual capture! It is really quite lovely. Certainly not something one would run into on their normal morning stroll.

Thank you for sharing this unique and wonderful big fish! :)

Greetings,

Mary Alice

Wow! Amazing piece of art. Well captured with fantastic detail and rich colour. What is the significance of the images and text in the tiles? You've a story to tell Séan. :)

Best regards, Tom

Mary Alice, Hamzar and Tom, thank you for the visits and kind comments.

This sculpture (an atlantic salmon) was commissioned to celebrate the regeneration of the River Lagan which flows through Belfast. The city has a long industrial history and the river suffered pollution of every type. In the late nineties the river was brought back to life and there are fish and salmon back in its waters.

The 'scales' Tom are covered in reproductions of pages from local newspapers covering notable events throughout the last century (eg Titanic setting sail from the harbour) and drawings and stories from Belfast schoolkids. There is also a time capsule within the 'fish'.

Very best regards guys,

Séan.

Well that is impressively big fish:) Nice shot Sean!

Greetings from Slovenia!

Samo T.

Hi samo T: yes a big fish indeed. glad you like this friend,

Best Regards,

Séan.

BTW Samo T, a young member of my golf club is currently in your country representing Ireland in a golf tournament: I am looking forward to his return to get his first hand opinion of Slovenia.

Beats mine by a country mile !!!

Jim

Maybe Jim but you couldn't eat a whole one :-)

Séan.

A new fish species being caught off the Irish coast, a few hours ago. It is covered in pictures and instead of skin it is made of jigsaw pieces - a real piece of art" the local press said! Y*.Greetings from Greece, Marina

oh my god! this fish lives in land.!

DM apologies for missing your comment when you first posted it: your comments are always much appreciated.

Mahdi, many thanks for the visit and comments :>)

Greetings from Ireland guys,

Séan.

interesting,I saw it in books before,and I wanna see it live someday!:P

Hello Ancsa, I see you have found 'the salmon', if you look closely, you will see lots of historical pieces on it's scales. When you get back to Ireland you must get up to Belfast, you will love it :>)

Warm Regards,

Séan.

Fine! Excellent gallery! Greetings from Japan!

hello.like is a very beautiful photo