At certain times of the year the Ballycotton cliff walk allows you to walk next to rich golden fields under blue skies.
Not at this time of year obviously. This was in July 2011!
| Aperture | ƒ/10 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 40D |
| Focal length | 18mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1/250s |
We’ve been lucky this year that the autumn and early winter has been so mild. It was 15C today! I think of this display as one last hurrah before the cold and rain and wind really sets in.
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 16mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1/50s |
Clusters of mushrooms growing out of an old tree trunk by a small river.
| Aperture | ƒ/4 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 50mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1/8s |
Here’s one of my attempts at a mushroom photo, focus stacked from 4 roughly the same images.
This sort of photography is really hard isn’t it? You have to get down really low which is a problem itself if you don’t have a tripod to suit. An extension tube is a requirement as I don’t have a macro lens, and then trying to manually focus on the different parts of the mushroom is a challenge.
The focus assist in my camera really helped there. It shows dancing dots where the image is focused but even at f/14 it wasn’t enough to encompass the entire mushroom from front to back. Tap to zoom paid off a few times as it blows up the image to help focusing.
It was fascinating to see the focus dots move like a wave through the scene as I zoomed in and out. Yes, zooming in and out moved the focus point significantly! Significantly here means a few centimetres. Everything is small scale here.
| Aperture | ƒ/14 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 105mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 2.5s |
Walking down the hill in Knockomagh Wood, Co Cork in March 2015.
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 6D |
| Focal length | 17mm |
| ISO | 3200 |
| Shutter speed | 1/125s |
A butterfly bush in Fitzgerald Park, July 2016.
| Aperture | ƒ/6.3 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 6D |
| Focal length | 300mm |
| ISO | 1600 |
| Shutter speed | 1/250s |
Spotted this little guy in the ditch behind my home a few days ago. Handsome fella but nervous of humans. He hid when my neighbour walked past!
| Aperture | ƒ/6.3 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 600mm |
| ISO | 640 |
| Shutter speed | 1/500s |
If you’ve been to Dingle you’ve probably passed through the village of Lispole. It’s on that long fairly straight road where the speed limit is 60km/h. There are lovely views from the top of the hill overlooking the village and this viaduct sits behind the petrol station at the bottom of the village.
I’d seen the viaduct many times over the years but (I think) never stopped to photograph it until 2 weeks ago. According to a nearby sign it was part of the Dingle – Tralee railway line which ran from 1891 to 1953. An important part of the long community so long ago.
| Aperture | ƒ/1.8 |
| Camera | SM-G998B |
| Focal length | 6.7mm |
| ISO | 50 |
| Shutter speed | 1/1100s |
Fence running away from me in the hills above the Conor Pass, Co Kerry.
| Aperture | ƒ/11 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 16mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 4s |
When one force of nature meets an immovable object something has to give.
| Aperture | ƒ/5.6 |
| Camera | DSC-RX100M4 |
| Focal length | 12.81mm |
| ISO | 125 |
| Shutter speed | 1/500s |
On a cold December day in 2019 Blarney was frosty as the sun rose over the horizon.
| Aperture | ƒ/2.4 |
| Camera | SM-G965F |
| Focal length | 4.3mm |
| ISO | 50 |
| Shutter speed | 1/440s |
Beautiful late afternoon light hits the hills of the Douro Valley in Portugal in November 2019.
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 84mm |
| ISO | 125 |
| Shutter speed | 1/160s |