Last October when Blarney Photography Club visited Killarney to photograph the rutting season this year, we took a break from the deer and some of us went to O’Sullivan’s Cascade. This is the Lakes of Killarney as seen from where that waterfall flows into the lake.
It was a beautiful clear day. The sky might have been a little boring for photography but I loved what I saw there. Especially when I saw how the sunlight caught a rock in the water. The hills in the background disappear into the distance like a painting. Quite a remarkable day.
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I love Alex Webb’s photos. Here’s his 2026 calendar.
Many years ago while travelling on the Dingle Peninsula we came across a donkey in a field in Muiríoch. I posted a photo of him in 2007 and again in 2008 but I happened to come across this photo of him and did a little work on the photo.
There’s a chance this donkey is still alive. Hopefully he’s well cared for and enjoying his elder years.
The brutalist architecture of Bishop Lucey Park seems to suit black and white night shots. This was only my first time trying to photograph it in such a way but I’ll try again.
Brown Thomas on Patrick Street, Cork, is all lit up again for Christmas. On Oliver Plunkett Street they’ve put up the usual decorations and they look fabulous!
Links: Christian does a nice edit of a panorama in Lightroom Classic. I learned something new – use the aspect slider to adjust the oddities of LrC panoramas.
This is me standing on the old walls of Cork where I took this photo in Bishop Lucey Park yesterday afternoon. The sun had already started to head to the horizon and it wasn’t even 3pm, but it did light up the mural on the wall and placed the ground in front of me in shadow.
For many in Ireland, November is firmly in the winter months of the year. It seems to be a traditional Irish/Celtic thing because Met Éireann uses meteorological seasons which classify September, October and November as autumn.
Today was International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, and it being Saturday there was another rally supporting the Palestinian people and Gaza in Cork. It went from Grand Parade, down St. Patrick’s Street and up Oliver Plunkett Street, finishing up on Grand Parade again, at the corner with South Mall, along the river.
If there’s one thing that was a constant in the old Bishop Lucey Park in Cork it was the pigeons. They swarmed over the old city wall where humans were denied because of a fence around it. Sometimes the wall was thick with them, waiting for a child to come along and scream and laugh at them as they flew into the air in panic.
One of the food trailers at the Skibbereen market on the day I visited in 2019 was “Little Green Shoot”. They’re on Facebook, but haven’t updated since 2020 so they may not be operating any more. A lot has happened since then.
We said goodbye to our dear cat, Hoppy today. She was 18 years old, and the last of her family that was brought into our lives by their mother many years ago.
She was an adorable cat. She would accept rubs and loving ear scratches for as long as you’d do them. She only ever tried to bite me once and that was a couple of weeks ago when she suffered a seizure outside my home office. I have learned since that you should keep your hands away from a cat when that happens as they’re scared of what’s happening.
The last of her family: Mommy Cat, Patches Senior, Patches, Sooty and Hoppy. I can’t believe we cared for 5 cats at one time. Apart from the mother, they all had the same gentle nature.
I don’t think anyone besides my immediate family have ever rubbed Hoppy. She was wary of strangers and ran a mile when anyone called to the house. That’s the thing with cats. Unless you’re calling to someone’s home you may not even know they have cats!
When Hoppy’s family first joined us we already had a dog, Oscar. They got on ok. She *loved* to rub up against him and sometimes slept on the same bed as him.
She’s been through many changes in our home, due to renovations and upgrades. When work men were about, she’d disappear into the ditch behind the house.
There was further upheavel in her life when Diego appeared. I remember Mommy Cat and Hoppy hissed and arched their backs at this tiny puppy I had on a lead. Diego is excitable, but for the most part they got on ok. He accepted her and Mommy cat as part of the household. Just yesterday evening I went out in the back garden with Diego and Hoppy followed us out too. Diego just walked back in past her without a look. He’s not so accepting of any other cat, unfortunately.
She went downhill a lot in the last year. It was a few months ago when I realised I hadn’t heard her meow while she waited for me to feed her in the morning. She seemed to have lost her voice, but the vet had observed she was short of breath and gasping all the time. It didn’t stop her purring, and that was lovely.
This morning she hopped slowly from her kennel outside to the kitchen door. She wasn’t that interested in food, looking down at the mashed sardines I put in her bowl for a while. She ate, but she appeared listless to me. She didn’t drink water either which was most unlike her.
I’m also sad because Hoppy was this one connection we had to her family and to Oscar and Diego. Such a long life. She was well cared for.
Tomorrow will be the first time in almost 2 decades that I come down to the kitchen in the morning and there won’t be a cat to feed. It’s a head wrecker.
Big Generator rocked Cobh last August during the Cobh People’s Regatta. They played in the band stand in the park and even later in the evening after the fireworks there was a large crowd dancing and enjoying the music! Look out for them as they play around the country.
Aperture
ƒ/6.3
Camera
ILCE-7RM5
Focal length
124mm
ISO
12800
Shutter speed
1/80s
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