Photo of the Day: Irish Landscapes

Cows graze beside some of the hundreds of miles of stone walls that crisscross Inishmore. The walls mark field boundaries and also serve a double purpose as well—farmers needed somewhere to pile the stones they had to remove from their rock-strewn fields in order to farm.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Ireland on Fast Forward," September 1994, National Geographic magazine)