Who rules this house? The animals do! Diego, our tiny chihuahua, sits in a bed sometimes claimed by one of our cats, Hoppy. She was very unhappy that Diego was in there. He’s the king of all he sees.
Isn’t he handsome in his new jacket? It’s lovely and warm and made with love by Jo!
| Aperture | ƒ/2.4 |
| Camera | SM-G998B |
| Focal length | 9mm |
| ISO | 640 |
| Shutter speed | 1/35s |
Blarney Castle, as seen through the rock they set up in the grounds below the Castle. Not a great shot, but one to mark off the list.
| Aperture | ƒ/16 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 32mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1/200s |
The beautiful Ina, a local model who has posed for Blarney Photography Club many times over the years. This photo is from 2018!
| Aperture | ƒ/5.6 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 6D |
| Focal length | 67mm |
| ISO | 400 |
| Shutter speed | 1/100s |
A few photos from the Stone Mad Blarney Half-Marathon today. Well done to the runners!
You can find a full album of all 352 images here on the race Facebook page.
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 24mm |
| ISO | 2000 |
| Shutter speed | 1/500s |
Ned, a donkey that lived in the grounds of Blarney Castle, in 2016.
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 6D |
| Focal length | 55mm |
| ISO | 1600 |
| Shutter speed | 1/60s |
An Amanita muscaria, commonly known as the fly agaric or fly amanita [*] in the grounds of Blarney Castle yesterday. It’s a poisonous mushroom found throughout temperate and boreal regions of the Northern Hemisphere, according to Wikipedia.
It’s also poisonous, but these days death from ingestion is rare. It has psychoactive uses too, and it’s eaten in various places.
Thanks Catherine for letting me know where these mushrooms were. She posted a nice photo of a mushroom from there recently! The nice thing about these mushrooms is that they are quite large, so you don’t really need a macro lens to get a photo like this of them.
| Aperture | ƒ/6.3 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 194mm |
| ISO | 500 |
| Shutter speed | 1/200s |
Mist and fog (the same thing?) gather in the hollows of an early morning last week near Blarney.
| Aperture | ƒ/4.9 |
| Camera | SM-G998B |
| Focal length | 30.6mm |
| ISO | 50 |
| Shutter speed | 1/200s |
The Moon a few days ago early one morning.
| Aperture | ƒ/13 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 600mm |
| ISO | 640 |
| Shutter speed | 1/500s |
The sun rises a few minutes after I get up. School is starting again.
| Aperture | ƒ/4.9 |
| Camera | SM-G998B |
| Focal length | 30.6mm |
| ISO | 50 |
| Shutter speed | 1/200s |
Over the next few days in Blarney Castle there’s a new pop-up garden to visit inside the walls of the building. In it, you’ll find an aquarium that is home to a group of moon jellyfish surrounded by specially selected plants and beautiful art work. The Irish Examiner has published an article on it this morning with lots more detail.
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 240mm |
| ISO | 25600 |
| Shutter speed | 1/250s |
The Moon is almost 90% of it’s closest approach to Earth right now, which is why it’s called a Supermoon but it’s not much bigger than it usually is.
Thankfully the air is clear and the skies are mostly devoid of clouds so I got a nice photo of the Moon last night. 🙂
| Aperture | ƒ/6.3 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 600mm |
| ISO | 250 |
| Shutter speed | 1/640s |
Back in October 2017, storms blew several trees down on to the Waterloo Road. Within a few hours work crews had started work on clearing the area. Oddly enough they waited to do the major work until Eoghan Murphy, a minister in the government, arrived to observe.
It was enlightening to see them start working on the wood chipper and start up their machinery when they received news that Mr Murphy was nearby. I guess that’s how politics works. They have to be “seen” to be doing something.
| Aperture | ƒ/5.6 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 6D |
| Focal length | 28mm |
| ISO | 12800 |
| Shutter speed | 1/15s |