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Tir na nOg ar Oilean Chleire

Tir na nOg is the house on the right of this photo. It’s a house that Colaiste Ciaran, an Irish summer school on the island, rents during the summer and where I spent a number of weeks years and years ago. The long, low building attached to the left is a canteen.

An Oige have a large hostel further down, near the stony beach. I remember looking with curiosity and longing at the kayaks in a nearby shed. Us students never got anything quite as exciting as those!

October 1st, 2008 | Posted in Canon 10-22, Canon 40D, Cape Clear, Cork, Cork Photos, Ireland, Irish photos, Nature, Oilean Chleire, Photography, Photos, Rocks, Sea, Vehicles, Water, irishblogs | Comments Off

Tullagh Cemetery at Sunset

Tullagh Cemetery in Baltimore, Co Cork, Ireland is just a field away from the excellent Casey’s Hotel where we spent the last week. I went down there one evening to shoot a couple of half capsized trawlers in the bay when I turned around and saw some of the headstones silhouetted against the setting sun.

I went searching online and found that 3 Commonwealth burials of the 1914-1918 war were in this graveyard.

September 15th, 2008 | Posted in Canon 40D, Cork, Cork Photos, Ireland, Irish photos, Landscape, Nature, Night, Photography, Photos, Sigma 18-200, Sky, Sun, Tullagh Cemetery, Tullagh Graveyard, Urban, cemetery, gravestones, graveyard, irishblogs, orange, red, silhouette, sunset | Comments Off

Red and White Flowers

Colourful red and white flowers in the doorway of Supervalu in Blarney. I half thought about posting Damien’s picture from yesterday’s get together, especially after what lexia said but that’d be too cruel!

August 29th, 2008 | Posted in Canon 20D, Cork, Cork Photos, Flowers, Ireland, Irish photos, Nature, Photography, Photos, Sigma 18-200, SuperValu, Urban, irishblogs, red, shop, white | Comments Off

Ye olde church

This church in Castletownbere in West Cork looks like it may have seen better days but by the looks of the mowed grass it’s probably still in use.

The Canon 40D was delivered today. I could have posted a sample picture but I didn’t have time to shoot anything interesting besides a few snaps of family. Loving the 3″ LCD on the back of the camera, it’s so quiet compared to the Canon 20D, hardly any noise at ISO 400, and experimenting with the auto ISO mode. That should help with street photography where light conditions change so rapidly.

August 26th, 2008 | Posted in Canon 10-22, Canon 20D, Castletownbere, Cork, Cork Photos, Ireland, Irish photos, Nature, Photography, Photos, Urban, church, grass, irishblogs, path, urban-decay | Comments Off

Glengarriff River

This is a picturesque stream that runs through Glengarriff Nature Reserve in Co. Cork. We went for a short walk close by but by the time we got here it was getting late in the afternoon and Adam was getting hungry!

May 3rd, 2008 | Posted in Canon 10-22, Canon 20D, Co. Cork, Cork, Cork Photos, Glengarriff, Glengarriff Nature Reserve, Ireland, Irish photos, Landscape, Nature, River, Water, irishblogs | Comments Off

Sheep in a Kerry field

Wooah, digging into the archives here. This was shot in September 2006 while on holiday in Dingle. It’s a field on Slea Head at the tip of the Dingle Peninsula.

It’s hard to see in the web version but I love the brooding clouds in the large image!

April 12th, 2008 | Posted in Canon 20D, Dingle, Ireland, Irish photos, Kerry, Kerry Photos, Landscape, Nature, Photos, Sigma 10-20, Slea Head, Sun, Water, clouds, field, grass, irishblogs, sheep | Comments Off

How very phallic of you

A desert plant growing near the ranch we stayed at in Arizona.

I only thought of the title after seeing this image in b/w, but err, it suits doesn’t it?

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Tags: Arizona, Automattic, Black and White, Canon 10-22, Canon 20D, irishblogs, Look up, Nature, phallic, Photos, plant, polarizer, Sky, United States

April 9th, 2008 | Posted in Canon 10-22, Canon 20D, Look up, Nature, Photos, Sky, United States, irishblogs, phallic, plant, polarizer | Comments Off

Call of the evening

A bird atop the light outside my house calls into the glowing evening sky heralding the end of 2007.

After walking Oscar I had to grab my camera and shoot the beautiful evening sky. The background was this colour, there’s no trickery here except a little vignetting and sharpening.

April 6th, 2008 | Posted in Canon 20D, Cork, Cork Photos, Ireland, Irish photos, Look up, Nature, Photos, Sigma 18-200, Sky, Sun, cloud, evening, irishblogs, light, street lighting | Comments Off

Trees on the Marina

The trees along the Marina in Blackrock, Cork are bare at the this time of year but the sun shone today as if it was the height of Summer. It was lovely, even with the biting wind.

Shot from the grounds of Pairc Ui Chaoimh (no relation!) while out walking with my sister, my son Adam who slept quietly in his buggy, and my dog Oscar who loved the long walk.