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  • Waiting for the Light

    Photo of photographers with tripods spread across a beach at dawn, some clustered near jagged dark rocks while one stands alone on a rocky outcrop to the right. Wet sand reflects a sky of layered grey and pink clouds. Mountains are visible on the far right horizon. Footprints mark the sand in the foreground.

    Nothing sorts the casual photographers from the committed ones quite like an early morning alarm on a Kerry beach in March. This lot from Blarney Photography Club were out on Cappagh Strand before first light, tripods planted in the wet sand, hoods up, waiting for whatever the sky decided to offer.

    The long exposure in the first shot turned them into ghosts which felt fitting, given how they were all standing perfectly still and barely speaking, the universal code of photographers who haven’t had coffee yet. By the time the clouds broke and the pink started to creep in, they’d fanned out along the rocks, each one finding their own angle on the same stretch of coastline. It’s a funny thing, watching people who spend their time making images become the image themselves.


    Apertureƒ/8
    CameraILCE-7RM5
    Focal length24mm
    ISO400
    Shutter speed25s

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  • One More Photo

    I can just imagine the conversation here, “Just one more photo and then we’re done!”

    What I like about this moment is that it’s completely unselfconscious. They’re in their own world while the crowd flows around them. There’s a nice irony in being a street photographer photographing someone photographing someone else, a little Russian doll of lenses and intentions.


    Apertureƒ/4
    CameraILCE-7RM5
    Focal length24mm
    ISO1600
    Shutter speed1/500s

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  • Low Cloud Over Dingle

    Low clouds lay over Dingle town on Friday evening but while it wasn’t the most exciting light, it had a lovely even light without deep shadows. It was a quiet evening with only a few people out walking their dogs and even a couple of tourists!


    Apertureƒ/8
    CameraILCE-7RM5
    Focal length100mm
    ISO100
    Shutter speed1s

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  • The Cappagh Sentinel

    The sun had risen about 40 minutes before and we were about to leave Cappagh Beach on the Dingle Peninsula when I saw a tree silhouetted against the sun.


    Apertureƒ/8
    CameraILCE-7RM5
    Focal length32mm
    ISO100
    Shutter speed1/160s

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  • The Umbrella Photographer

    Sunday’s storm on the Dingle Peninsula was the kind that turns sensible people around at the car park, but photographers are rarely sensible. I was down at Clogher Strand when the rain properly opened up. My friend and I both grabbed umbrellas trying to keep the gear dry while still getting the shot. The blue umbrella was doing most of the heavy lifting, swallowing them whole against that wall of ancient slate. What struck me was the colour contrast: that vivid blue
    popping against the muted greys and ochres of the cliff face, with the smooth sand beneath acting like a stage. They never knew they’d wandered straight into my frame, which is probably for the best. Sometimes the best subjects are the ones who don’t know they’re performing.

    Clogher Strand was used as a filming location for David Lean’s Ryan’s Daughter (1970). The production spent nearly a year on the Dingle Peninsula waiting for suitably dramatic weather. We had that on Sunday!


    Apertureƒ/5
    CameraILCE-7RM5
    Focal length63mm
    ISO800
    Shutter speed1/2000s

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  • 1864 Meets 2026: Old Iron, New Glass

    Look up and notice that 160 years of history are stacked vertically in the same sightline in London. At the bottom of the frame is the ornate ironwork crest of the London, Chatham and Dover Railway, dated 1864, sitting on its stone parapet like it’s been there forever (because it basically has). And rising directly behind it, filling the rest of the frame, is One Blackfriars. That’s a 50-storey residential tower clad in curved glass that Londoners have nicknamed “the Vase” because of its shape.


    Apertureƒ/8
    CameraILCE-7RM5
    Focal length65mm
    ISO100
    Shutter speed1/250s

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  • Tiny People in a Giant City

    This is what I love about shooting London with a telephoto lens. You compress the layers of the city together and suddenly the relationship between people and architecture becomes absurd.


    Apertureƒ/8
    CameraILCE-7RM5
    Focal length87mm
    ISO125
    Shutter speed1/500s

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  • Cool and Curly: Two Strangers on the South Bank

    Just after we walked across Millenium Bridge in London I came across these two people watching something behind me. I think it may have been two women who had a couple of dogs with them.

    An interesting pair. I couldn’t resist making a candid photo of the moment.


    Apertureƒ/4
    CameraILCE-7RM5
    Focal length24mm
    ISO100
    Shutter speed1/1250s

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  • Wish You Were Here

    We stopped for a break in St. John’s Church Garden where I spotted an art installation mounted on a rotary clothes line. A bit eye-catching!


    Apertureƒ/6.3
    CameraILCE-7RM5
    Focal length187mm
    ISO500
    Shutter speed1/500s

  • Walking Into the Storm on the Dunes

    A storm was rapidly approaching but the sun was still shining when I took this. Moments later the dark clouds in the background had blown over, leaving some of us drenched, and then it was bright and sunny again.


    Apertureƒ/8
    CameraILCE-7RM5
    Focal length139mm
    ISO100
    Shutter speed1/1000s

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  • This is Dunnes in 2008

    The Dunnes Stores on St. Patrick’s Street, Cork was only a muddy construction site in March 2008. Only the distinctive yellow front of the building remained at this time.


    Apertureƒ/9
    CameraCanon EOS 20D
    Focal length18mm
    ISO200
    Shutter speed1/200s

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  • It’s Big, Ben!

    Every tourist in London has a photo of Big Ben, so here’s another one. 🙂


    Apertureƒ/5
    CameraILCE-7RM5
    Focal length62mm
    ISO100
    Shutter speed1/640s

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