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Carvery Lunch

Carvery Lunch, the fast food of “proper food” IMO. Many will be going to pubs today for their Sunday lunch and it’ll be carvery on offer. Nothing wrong with it of course, but some people are snobs about eating out and want food delivered to their table. Considering the price of carvery food, I can see their point. It’s generally the same price as food in a restaurant, so why not eat somewhere else?

October 5th, 2008 | Posted in Canon 10-22, Canon 20D, Cork, Cork Photos, Ireland, Irish photos, Photography, Photos, Signs, The Lough, Urban, corkphotowalk, irishblogs, pub, urban-decay | Comments Off

The Lough Daffodils

We walked around The Lough and wandered over to the daffodils growing by the footpath at one of the lake. That’s Sean Murphy in the background as he preps some of his equipment to take a shot.

Probably my last photo from the Lough Photowalk!

March 27th, 2008 | Posted in Candid, Canon 10-22, Canon 20D, Cork, Cork Photos, Flowers, Ireland, Irish photos, Lough, Nature, People, Photos, Sky, Sun, The Lough, Urban, corkphotowalk, daffodils, irishblogs, lake, yellow | Comments Off

Church Flowers

Flowers outside The Lough Parish Church, “Church of the Immaculate Conception”.

You can read more about the church and mass times at the The Lough Parish page on the Diocese website.

March 16th, 2008 | Posted in Canon 10-22, Canon 20D, Cork, Cork Photos, Flowers, Ireland, Irish photos, Look up, Lough, Photos, Sky, The Lough, Urban, church, corkphotowalk, decoration, irishblogs, red-brick | Comments Off

Heads up at the Lough

This was shot from a precarious position. I jumped up on one of the concrete posts dotted around the pond and very carefully snapped a couple of shots. I just about managed to balance there for a few minutes! See the two black swans everyone else was shooting?

From left to right: Donal, Ryan, Kevin, Katie and Sean spotted me and started shooting the biggest birdbrain there ..

March 15th, 2008 | Posted in Candid, Canon 10-22, Canon 20D, Cork, Cork Photos, Ireland, Irish photos, Lough, People, Photos, The Lough, Urban, Water, corkphotowalk, irishblogs, photowalking, swans | Comments Off

A big head is natural

I was setting up a shot by placing that wheel cap leaning on the bus shelter when these two teenagers ran across the road carrying a football goal between them!

Anyway, there’s the Murphy’s stout advert I wanted to shoot. I wonder if they advertise anywhere else in the country?

March 14th, 2008 | Posted in Canon 10-22, Canon 20D, Cork, Cork Photos, Ireland, Irish photos, Lough, Murphy's, Murphy's Stout, People, Photos, Sport, Street, The Lough, Urban, Urban Acid, bus shelter, bus-eireann, corkphotowalk, football, irishblogs, soccer, sports, teens, wheel cap | Comments Off

The pigeon flies away!

Besides the beautiful swans, there’s the usual gathering of pigeons waddling along on the path picking up bread crumbs.

Too tempting. I had to chase after them and encourage them to fly a little. Some of them need the exercise!

March 13th, 2008 | Posted in Canon 10-22, Canon 20D, Cork, Cork Photos, Ireland, Irish photos, Look up, People, Photos, Sky, The Lough, Urban, corkphotowalk, irishblogs, pigeons | Comments Off

Feed the swans at the Lough

Girls feed the swans at the Lough on Sunday afternoon.

Urban acid

Will posted his first photo from the day on his blog. He did arrive late, but he made up for lost time!

March 12th, 2008 | Posted in Canon 10-22, Canon 20D, Cork, Cork Photos, Ireland, Irish photos, Nature, People, Photos, The Lough, Urban, Urban Acid, Water, feeding, girls, irishblogs, swans | Comments Off

The Swan’s Wings

You really only appreciate how large and imposing a swan is when they rear up out of the water and spread their magnificent wings. While at The Lough on Sunday there were a number of fights between swans. Guess it’s that time of the year again, eh?

The swans were fairly tame towards us humans, and allowed us to shoot quite closely, but I’ve had run ins with swans before and I’m always suspicious of them!

Katie caught me as I lay on the ground to get a shot of The Lough Church. Embarrassed? Me? Never, I’ve been in many other more compromising situations just to get a shot!

Ryan posted a whole set of photos from the day and Kevin has posted his first shot.

March 11th, 2008 | Posted in Canon 10-22, Canon 20D, Cork, Cork Photos, Ireland, Irish photos, Nature, Photos, The Lough, Urban, Water, corkphotowalk, irishblogs, swan, swans | Comments Off

That bread is mine!

A heron swoops in on a bunch of greedy gulls at The Lough yesterday!

For more pictures, check out Katie’s set and Will’s photos!

In retrospect, we were very lucky with the weather for the photowalk. Just after I got home the downpour started and 60mph winds ravaged the south of the country!

I was going to upload a bunch of the photowalk shots today but I’ll let them trickle in and then post the remainer on Friday.

March 10th, 2008 | Posted in Canon 20D, Cork, Cork Photos, Ireland, Irish photos, Nature, Photos, Sigma 18-200, The Lough, Urban, Water, corkphotowalk, irishblogs, lake | Comments Off

Photowalking around The Lough

What: Photowalk.
When: Sunday March 9th at 3pm.
Where: The Lough in Cork City. (Google Map)
Who: Anyone with any sort of camera.

On Sunday March 9th, we’ll visit The Lough in Cork City on a photowalk around the lake. Of course it’s also a social occasion when we can swap camera tips and photography advice. Sunday is a slow day for many people so let’s aim to be there at 3pm near the bird feeding (south) end of the lake. Weather permitting, that gives us plenty of light for about 3 hours, and if people are still around later, sunsets over The Lough can be quite stunning. Bring family and friends too if you like, but remind them that they will probably be photographed and their photos may end up online. If you bring a dog, remember that they must be kept on a lead.

Nearby is the Hawthorn Bar. It’s literally right next to the lake and a nice place to go for a drink or a bite to eat.

All are welcome to come. It doesn’t matter what type of camera you have, or how good or bad you think you are. Photowalking is the perfect opportunity to practice and improve your photography and chat with like minded individuals. The Wikipedia page on photowalking has a good overview of what it’s all about:

Photowalking is the act of walking with a camera for the main purpose of taking pictures of things you may find interesting.

So far I have confirmed that Ryan and Donal will go, and sort of confirmed that David will be there. David was kind enough to announce the walk at the last meeting of Mallow Camera Club so I hope that a few members will participate.

I would be very happy if 5 or 6 people showed up. If there are more that’s even better. We’ll have plenty to talk about and there is so much to photograph you’ll be kept busy. Leave a comment on this post if you’re interested in going or have any questions!

If you’ve never been to The Lough, here are a few links that may interest you:

The Lough in photos - I’ve been there many times. Here are a selection of the photos I took there.
Cork Lough Info - from bluedolphin.ie
WILD BIRDS (THE LOUGH, CORK CITY, AREA) ORDER, 1963 - The Lough is a protected wildlife area. This is the law protecting it I presume.

Don’t forget, if you’re in Dublin this weekend, Redmum is organising an Irish Blog Awards Photowalk on Saturday. I won’t be there but it should be fun to photowalk through Dublin City Centre!

February 27th, 2008 | Posted in Cork, Ireland, Photography, The Lough, Words, irishblogs, photowalking | Comments Off

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