Posts Tagged ‘The Lough’

The Lough Daffodils

Thursday, March 27th, 2008 by Donncha

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

Probably my last photo from Photowalk!

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Swans on The Lough

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 by Donncha

swim past on in City. This was one of the first I took at the recent photowalk there. Despite the clear blue and lovely light it was quite cold with a biting wind!

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Three’s a crowd

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 by Donncha

Some of the at a few weeks ago during the photo walk. Got a few more shots from that session to post!

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Church Flowers

Sunday, March 16th, 2008 by Donncha

outside Parish , “ of the Immaculate Conception”.

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

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Heads up at the Lough

Saturday, March 15th, 2008 by Donncha

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 everyone else was shooting?

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

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A big head is natural

Friday, March 14th, 2008 by Donncha

I was setting up a shot by placing that leaning on the when these two teenagers ran across the road carrying a 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?

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The pigeon flies away!

Thursday, March 13th, 2008 by Donncha

Besides the beautiful , 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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Feed the swans at the Lough

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 by Donncha

feed the at on Sunday afternoon.

acid :)

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

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The Swan’s Wings

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 by Donncha

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

The 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 . Embarrassed? Me? Never, I’ve been in many other more compromising situations just to get a shot!

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

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That bread is mine!

Monday, March 10th, 2008 by Donncha

A heron swoops in on a bunch of greedy gulls at 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.

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