I was there too
It’s sometimes hard to believe there was a gunpowder mill in this area, but look around and you’ll see the ruins everywhere. Here though, I found a winding, worn path running parallel to the neat tarmac of the modern path.
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | ILCE-7RM5 |
| Focal length | 24mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1s |
The path forks around one of the ruins of the gunpowder mill in Ballincollig Regional Park, Cork. Everything is overgrown, but access is easy. Inside that building, it looks like this.
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 16mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 4s |
The weir in Ballincollig Regional Park collapsed in 2014, but this photo was taken many years before that, in 2003. Repairs to the weird have been delayed over and over again, unfortunately.
| Aperture | ƒ/8.2 |
| Camera | FinePix2800ZOOM |
| Focal length | 36mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1/270s |
On a particularly foggy morning in December 2002 I wandered around Ballincollig Regional Park. I photographed the weir that morning in the mist. Wasn’t much to be heard except the rushing of the water.
Some fifteen years later the centre of the weir would collapse. The OPW may rebuild it at a cost of over €1m. Hopefully that happens.
| Aperture | ƒ/2.8 |
| Camera | FinePix2800ZOOM |
| Focal length | 8.2mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1/170s |
Regional Park, Ballincollig. June 2018.
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 28mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1/160s |
A foggy day in the Regional Park, Ballincollig, 2007.
The bridge over the River Lee by the Regional Park near Ballincollig, Cork.
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 6D |
| Focal length | 24mm |
| ISO | 160 |
| Shutter speed | 1/320s |
Volunteers sang their hearts out in Ballincollig a few days ago for the Society of St. Vincent de Paul Christmas Collection.
Happy Christmas! Hope you have a great day!
| Aperture | ƒ/3.5 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 40D |
| Focal length | 18mm |
| ISO | 400 |
| Shutter speed | 1/30s |
A farmer ploughing his field caught my attention while out driving with Adam (trying to get him to sleep, it worked!)
The farmer saw me and asked the usual “why are you photographing me?” question but was friendly enough. Plenty of work to be done anyway as he was only halfway through the field!
When I saw the scene I pictured the contrasting bright and dark halves of the ground, but the day was so bright it was difficult to shoot the shadow close by me. I had to clone out a really annoying power line going right across the top half of the image too!
Shot just outside Ballincollig in Co. Cork.
| Aperture | ƒ/6.3 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 20D |
| Focal length | 22mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1/60s |
