I was there too
Because of the disc’s enormous magical field, at sunrise, the morning light flows over like thick golden syrup, accumulating in valleys and then slowly crawling over the top of an hillside. The same can be said about the night, which spreads like plum jam.
Terry Pratchett
Sunrise over Muckross Lake in Killarney, Co Kerry. On a visit there with Blarney Photography Club one morning in October 2021.
| Aperture | ƒ/11 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 191mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1/800s |
Blarney Castle silhouetted by the sun and bright sky behind it.
St. Matthew’s Church and Graveyard overlooking Crosshaven and Church Bay in East Cork. Last Thursday night with Blarney Photography Club.
| Aperture | ƒ/6.3 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 600mm |
| ISO | 200 |
| Shutter speed | 1/8s |
Malaga, Spain. April 2019.
| Aperture | ƒ/4 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 35mm |
| ISO | 250 |
| Shutter speed | 1/500s |
Edinburgh, Scotland. June 2018.
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 222mm |
| ISO | 400 |
| Shutter speed | 1/8s |
Sunrise, as seen from my home office here in Blarney about 3 weeks ago. The weather was great in September. Much better than it was in August.
| Aperture | ƒ/3.5 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 40D |
| Focal length | 18mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1/30s |
Tullagh Cemetery in Baltimore, Co Cork, Ireland is just a field away from the excellent Casey’s Hotel where we spent the last week. I went down there one evening to shoot a couple of half capsized trawlers in the bay when I turned around and saw some of the headstones silhouetted against the setting sun.
I went searching online and found that 3 Commonwealth burials of the 1914-1918 war were in this graveyard.
| Aperture | ƒ/11 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 40D |
| Focal length | 59mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1/640s |
Heineken logo silhouette on the ground outside a cafe in Kinsale on a very bright sunny day some time back.
If you’re wondering, the image above mirrored, otherwise the logo would be backwards!
| Aperture | ƒ/10 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 20D |
| Focal length | 48mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1/200s |
Sunrise over Blarney a few days ago. There was a thin layer of cloud on the horizon that nicely blocked out much of the light of the sun allowing me to capture this early morning sun.
It’s amazing to think that the light we see takes 8 minutes to travel the immense distance between the Sun and Earth. What’s even more remarkable is the thousands of years a photon can spend zinging back and forth inside the Sun before emerging as heat and light.
| Aperture | ƒ/6.3 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 20D |
| Focal length | 270mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1/320s |
