The out of focus lights of Youghal light up the sky. The red light of a passing vehicle lights up the corner of the scene. I was originally going to photograph the light and get a long exposure shot of passing traffic but luckily, my lens was out of focus and reminded me I could…

Dark figures in a dimly lit alley, but who can they be?

Light flows around the Sextant back in October 2019.

Puerto Calero, Lanzarote, Canary Islands. January 2019.

Cornmarket Street, Cork. December 2017.

Mark Gorman gave a very interesting talk on bokeh at a recent meeting of Blarney Photography Club. Here are a few photos from that night. [gallery type="rectangular" link="file" ids="21213,21214,21215,21216,21217,21218" orderby="rand"]

Winthrop Street, Cork.

Ghostly light from passing cars hangs in the air on the corner of MacCurtain Street and Bridge Street in Cork City, Ireland. This is the second of three light trails or light streaks photos I’ll post here in an unintentional series of long exposure photos. The first was my Light Trails in Blarney photo published…

The red lights of a passing car streak across this photo taken in front of Christy’s in Blarney over the weekend. The photo was a long exposure of 8 seconds, at f/4, ISO 100. I was shooting in manual mode and made sure the scene was under exposed by at least a stop. As f/4…

A ship tied up at the quay in Kinsale, Co. Cork last year. The vessel was mostly deserted but we saw revellers boarding it regularly, walking around the deck and then off again!

A long exposure shot of traffic as it heads into Cork City from the direction of Blackpool. This was very difficult to take and the original shows quite a bit of shake even though I had the camera balanced on a pedestrian traffic light button thingy. Love the streaks though.