I was there too
The interior of St. Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh on a bright, sunny day in July, 2018. I visited again recently but these are from my first visit.
I visited the cathedral with the aim to photograph it, but I forgot to bring my tripod! It was sitting in my suitcase in my hotel room. I did my best, using tables and benches and the floor instead to hold my camera steady.
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 24mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1/30s |
Another tourist watches for a moment before taking her own photo with her phone, inside the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. Non Muslims are restricted in where they can go now because it was turned back into a mosque again in 2020.
This was on the morning after I spent the day in bed recovering from food poisoning, so I didn’t take a whole lot of photos and had to go back to bed afterwards as I was so tired from the walk. This page has a number of photos showing what it’s like. Definitely try to avoid the busy times. It’s thronged with visitors.
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | ILCE-7RM5 |
| Focal length | 24mm |
| ISO | 10000 |
| Shutter speed | 1/60s |
A little dog enjoys the sun streaming into a shop in Malaga a few years ago.
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 28mm |
| ISO | 640 |
| Shutter speed | 1/500s |
We were walking out towards Hussey’s Folly outside Dingle when I looked across Dingle Harbour and saw the sunlight travel across the opposite headland as clouds moved away.
I love seeing light and shadow on a landscape so I grabbed a few quick shots.
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 79mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1/250s |
The sun peeks through the clouds to illuminate the ruins of a wall in the grounds of Blarney Castle, Cork.
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 6D |
| Focal length | 55mm |
| ISO | 1250 |
| Shutter speed | 1/160s |
This is the private road to the estate on which Blarney Castle sits.
As I was walking about one late winter afternoon I spotted the lovely light shining through the trees and just had to take a snap!
| Aperture | ƒ/7.1 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 20D |
| Focal length | 144mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1/160s |
Blackberries glisten in the bright sun of an August afternoon in Co. Cork.
I love blackberry jam, blackberry tarts, blackberry crumble. I don’t like picking the fruit, but I have many childhood memories of wandering country lanes with my family looking for the best fruit for my mother to make delicious jam.
Nowadays, you can buy a carton of blackberries in M&S cheaply. Oh how times have moved on.
| Aperture | ƒ/7.1 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 20D |
| Focal length | 200mm |
| ISO | 200 |
| Shutter speed | 1/250s |
