• River Nore, Kilkenny

    River Nore, Kilkenny

    The River Nore runs through the city of Kilkenny where we spent a weekend earlier this month at WordCamp Ireland. In the photo you can see the Rivercourt Hotel where I stayed with my family on the opposite bank the famous Kilkenny Castle.

    Beautiful city, well worth a visit.

    Aperture ƒ/4
    Camera Canon EOS 40D
    Focal length 10mm
    ISO 800
    Shutter speed 1/13s
  • Patient Dog

    Patient or not? A dog waits as his owner chats at the farmers market in Blarney on St. Patrick’s Day this year. More Photos.

    Aperture ƒ/7.1
    Camera Canon EOS 40D
    Focal length 59mm
    ISO 400
    Shutter speed 1/125s
  • 1964 Morris Minor

    1964 Morris Minor

    A Morris Minor, registered in 1964, parked in Bantry town in County Cork. Pictured in September 2008 while on holiday there.

    After reading the Wikipedia page on the car this is probably a Minor 1000.

    Aperture ƒ/11
    Camera Canon EOS 40D
    Focal length 10mm
    ISO 400
    Shutter speed 1/100s
  • Balloons in Cork

    Balloons in Cork

    A balloon seller on Daunt Square in September 2009, during one of our photowalks. A shopper takes her ease in the foreground.

    Aperture ƒ/3.5
    Camera Canon EOS 40D
    Focal length 18mm
    ISO 400
    Shutter speed 1/5000s
  • Unhappy in Dublin

    Unhappy in Dublin

    Grim faced people walking along O’Connell Street in Dublin a month ago.

    Aperture ƒ/3.5
    Camera Canon EOS 40D
    Focal length 18mm
    ISO 400
    Shutter speed 1/500s
  • False dawn of the city

    False dawn of the city

    As you may have already guessed, that’s not the dawn. It’s the lights of Cork City (and Blarney) shining and into the sky in a long exposure shot I made last August.

    I had meant to mention this sooner but 2 weeks ago I was shocked to hear about the death of Debbie Metrustry (@debbiemet), a wonderful person I had the pleasure of conversing with by tweet and by email over the course of the last year or so. She even won a print on this blog last year, but between this and that I never got around to sending it to her. I hope I can get in touch with her family at some stage and offer it to them instead.

    Debbie’s blog on WordPress.com is still there and will be as long as the service is there (which is forever, right?), I’ve seen to that.

    If you knew Debbie you might like to read the reaction from other people who knew her.

    RIP Debbie.

    Aperture ƒ/4
    Camera Canon EOS 40D
    Focal length 10mm
    ISO 100
    Shutter speed 384s
  • It’s wheely grass

    It's wheely grass

    One of the wheels of a boat trailer in Baltimore, County Cork.

    Aperture ƒ/5.6
    Camera Canon EOS 40D
    Focal length 10mm
    ISO 100
    Shutter speed 1/80s
  • All wrapped up

    All wrapped up

    Petrol pumps sit idle at the same derelict station I shot this flo gas photo.

    One of my photos will be auctioned off today as part of Bid For Haiti in the Metropole Hotel in Cork. Paul O’Mahony is organising it but my brother Donal is helping to get prints together.
    Check out #bidforhaiti on Twitter!

    Aperture ƒ/4
    Camera Canon EOS 20D
    Focal length 10mm
    ISO 200
    Shutter speed 1/50s
  • Reach For The Sky

    Bare trees reach for the sky by the Atlantic Pond and Marina in Blackrock, Cork.

    Shot in April 2008.

    woof woof woof woof woof woof woof woof woof….

    Aperture ƒ/10
    Camera Canon EOS 20D
    Focal length 10mm
    ISO 100
    Shutter speed 1/250s
  • The Jedward Angel

    The Jedward Angel

    Bishop Lucey Park in Cork City was the location of a wonderful display of angel statues. They were decorated in all sorts of ways and even had one dedicated to Jedward!

    Adam had a great time running around them, and had loads of fun playing with another boy named Nathaniel. They went crazy chasing around and screaming as loud as they could at the pigeons who had an unexpected bout of exercise!

    Aperture ƒ/5.6
    Camera Canon EOS 40D
    Focal length 20mm
    ISO 100
    Shutter speed 1/125s
  • Five Arches

    The bridge spanning the river outside Abbeystrowry Cemetery near Skibereen in County Cork.

    My wife was driving, I was able to enjoy the scenery! 🙂

    Aperture ƒ/9
    Camera Canon EOS 40D
    Focal length 18mm
    ISO 100
    Shutter speed 1/200s
  • Gates of the Dead

    The roofed gates of Abbeystrowry Cemetery near Skibereen in County Cork.

    Aperture ƒ/9
    Camera Canon EOS 40D
    Focal length 72mm
    ISO 100
    Shutter speed 1/160s