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. [...]
2008Mon15Sep
Tullagh Cemetery at Sunset
Filed in Canon 40D, Cork, Ireland, Landscape, Nature, Night, Photography, Photos, Sigma 18-200, Sky, Sun, Urban
2008Fri01Aug
How to (not) shoot a solar eclipse
Filed in Blarney, Canon 20D, Canon 75-300, Cork, Ireland, Look up, Photography, Photos, Sky, SunI went searching and found a few pages describing how to shoot the sun during a solar eclipse. All warned against looking at the sun directly. So, I ignored all that advice and got out my 75-300mm lens and grabbed a couple of shots of the sun with a chunk bitten out of it by [...]
2008Sun01Jun
Misty Morning Bird
Filed in Birds, Blarney, Canon 20D, Cork, Fog, Ireland, Nature, Photos, Sigma 18-200, Sky, SunWhat were you doing at 5:52am this bright Sunday morning? Fast asleep? Our little boy Adam had us up and about bright and early. Bleary eyed parents who read this will I’m sure agree that it’s a shame young kids don’t realise the weekend is for sleeping in. I would have missed this shot though [...]
2008Sat31May
House on the hill
Filed in Animals, Bantry, Canon 10-22, Canon 20D, Cork, Ireland, Landscape, Nature, Photos, Sky, SunA house with a striking red door overlooks a field with sheep in one corner and a feeding trough in the foreground. This was shot near Bantry in West Cork a few months ago and I just love the vast rolling grassy slope of the ground. Cork City Marathon is on Monday. It starts at [...]
2008Sun20Apr
Great ball of flame
Filed in Blarney, Canon 20D, Canon 75-300, Cork, Ireland, Photos, Sky, Sun, UrbanSunrise over Blarney a few days ago. There was a thin layer of cloud on the horizon that nicely blocked out much of the light of the sun allowing me to capture this early morning sun. It’s amazing to think that the light we see takes 8 minutes to travel the immense distance between the [...]
2008Fri18Apr
Guide Me
Filed in Baile na nGall, Boat, Canon 20D, Ireland, Kerry, Look up, Photos, Sigma 10-20, Sky, SunGuide Me, a boat left high and dry above the beach at Baile Na nGall in Co. Kerry. Declan from O’Learys Camera World rang this morning. My lens has arrived. I’ll go collect it tomorrow!
2008Tue15Apr
The rebel flag in Ballycotton
Filed in Ballycotton, Boat, Canon 20D, Cork, Ireland, Landscape, Look up, Sigma 10-20, Sky, Sun, Urban, WaterThe Cork County colours fly on the quay at Ballycotton Harbour in Co. Cork in 2006. I’ve been looking at this image for so long I’m almost certain I must have uploaded it but it’s been sitting in my output folder for all this time!
2008Mon14Apr
A Rainbow over Cobh
Filed in Boat, Canon 20D, Cobh, Cork, Ireland, Landscape, Photos, Sea, Sigma 10-20, Sky, Sun, UrbanA rainbow brightens up the dark clouds threatening Cobh in Co. Cork in late 2006. You can see Cobh Cathedral in the background, and I’d swear the boats in the foreground are still there in the same position all these years later ..
2008Sun06Apr
Call of the evening
Filed in Birds, Blarney, Canon 20D, Cork, Ireland, Look up, Photos, Sigma 18-200, Sky, SunCall 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.
2008Thu27Mar
The Lough Daffodils
Filed in Candid, Canon 10-22, Canon 20D, Cork, Flowers, Ireland, Nature, People, Photos, Sky, Sun, The Lough, UrbanThe 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!
