I am currently traveling so this is a post I prepared last week and is being automatically published. Technology eh! its wonderful 🙂 I produced an image of this Orchid last year, in fact the image won a competition which I was delighted about. This is an even closer view of that incredible detail in…
I am currently traveling so this is a post I prepared last week and is being automatically published. Technology eh! its wonderful 🙂 This was taken earlier this year during my numerous visits to the botanical gardens. It is actually a very tight crop of the right petal (Leaf?) of an Orchid. I wanted to…
As we continue to head deeper into Autumn and then on to a fairly inevitable harsh winter I thought I would share the above image taken at the beginning of spring last year. It’s nice to be reminded that new life is just around the corner I think. Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II Lens:…
On Wednesday last the weather forecast indicated we would have a potentially great sunrise, so I was up early and headed up to a spot I had noticed when I was last shooting up at Lough Tay (and here). Unfortunately I must have been looking at the wrong forecast because when I reached the location…
I recently shared an image of a Hoverfly resting on a Black Eyed Susan taken on a trip to the Japanese Gardens in Kildare. Well this image was actually taken a full 12 months ago. I was spending a weekend in Cavan with some friends and we took a walk along a forest road and…
Another image I’ve pulled up from the archives, this dates back to August 2008 and my trusty old 40D and Sigma lens. The image is taken at a waterfall in Wicklow and is one of my early experiences of using Neutral Density filters with water. Camera: Canon EOS 40D Lens: Sigma 17-70mm F2.8-4.5 DC Macro…
[column width=”55%” padding=”3%”] Black and White image of the Hell Fire Club located in the Dublin Mountains in Ireland. [/column] [column width=”42%”] I took a visit to the Hell Fire Club on Saturday afternoon. This building – a hunting lodge built around 1725 by William Conolly – was originally called Mount Pelier and since its…
This is an image that has been sitting on my to-do list in Aperture since May this year. Taken during my trip to Spain during a pleasant walk in gardens local to my parents house. Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM Exposure: 1/200 Aperture: f/2.8 Focal Length: 100mm…
As we begin to head into Autumn I thought it would be interesting to look back over my Autumn/Winter catalog. We rarely get snow here in Dublin but last winter proved the harshest in over 30 years, with heavy snow that lasted for months. The country was brought to its knees, so unprepared as we…
Lilies are one of my favorite flowers, and water lilies even more so. I’ll always try and capture their delicate beauty whenever I see them. It was August 2009 the last time I shared some water lily images so I thought I would share this with you from a visit to the Botanical Gardens last…
Garstone Cobbler. No don’t ask me I have no idea why they are called that either. But wow do they have an amazing flower head. Such delicate detail in the tubular petals. Right on the back of my last Black and White image which was the first since August here’s a 2nd in just a…
I posted an image on Saturday from my recent dawn shoot at Lough Tay in the Wicklow Mountains where I managed to capture a rainbow just appearing on the cliffs at the same time the sun was cresting the mountains. Well this image was taken about 2 1/2 hours later when I returned to the…