Posts Tagged ‘Sky’

Reflections of the city

Friday, April 11th, 2008 by Donncha

City Hall and the on both sides of the are reflected in the at .

I took this back in October 2006 when the Elysian hadn’t reached it’s glorious present day height. I venture to say that a photo of this scene now would feature at least a part of the Elysian buildings blocking the in the top right of the photo.

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Conor Pass Hills and Clouds

Thursday, April 10th, 2008 by Donncha

This image broke my heart. I spent a long time trying to get the darkened layer and the brightened ground layer to merge nicely but I’m still not happy with it.

This small web version looks almost ok but I can still see the offending bits that are wrong.

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How very phallic of you

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 by Donncha

A desert growing near the ranch we stayed at in .

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

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Call of the evening

Sunday, April 6th, 2008 by Donncha

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

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

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Trees on the Marina

Saturday, April 5th, 2008 by Donncha

The along the in , are bare at the this time of year but the 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.

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Desert Tree

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 by Donncha

One of the many growing in the arid desert surrounding the ranch stayed in while in .

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Tall Grass

Sunday, March 30th, 2008 by Donncha

growing in the desert.

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St. Patrick’s Day is for the kids

Monday, March 17th, 2008 by Donncha

A young waves her Irish in the air after spotting part of the St. Patrick’s Day in approaching.

I shot several decent shots but it’s late and I’m tired. I was quite disappointed with the and left after half an hour. Like previous years there were huge gaps between some of the groups partaking in the .

It was strange to see the Special Olympics group striding up Patrick’s Street all alone with no other group in sight. They proudly showed off their medals and the crowd cheered and clapped for them. I’ll have a photo of them up here later in the week.

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The pigeon flies away!

Thursday, March 13th, 2008 by Donncha

Besides the beautiful swans, there’s the usual gathering of 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!

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Sunshine on the Conor Pass

Friday, February 29th, 2008 by Donncha

This will probably be the final photo from that September 2006 visit to the . It’s taken earlier than some of the others but I’m a sucker for leading lines so it had to go in!
I love the in the on the valley floor, and the shadows of the .

Must make a trip back there this summer!

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