Another image from my recent trip to Spain, this was taken during Sunset at the Embalse de la Pedrera reservoir near Orihuela. I was very lucky to get any shot from this trip, in fact I was lucky to bring my camera home in one piece. The banks of the reservoir were like quicksand, I…
Another image from my recent trip to Spain, this was take in an Olive Orchard. Taken while the sun was at it’s peak there was way too much contrast to produce a colour image. However as so often when shooting at this time of day that high-contrast can produce a striking Black & White. I…
A 5am start to any day is never easy, even harder when you’re on holidays. But when the day starts like this, that early rise and one hour drive is all worthwhile. This was taken along the Promenade in Torrevieja in the south of Spain just as the sun was cresting the water. You can…
Another image from my walk around the gardens at our place near Orihuela in the south of Spain. These snails were everywhere clinging to anything that might provide life giving moisture. Like the previous images this was handheld using the Canon 100mm Macro @ f/2.8 and ISO400. Pretty tricky to focus right when your dealing…
The first from a series I will be publishing from my recent trip to Spain in September. Here I have published two images that are almost identical apart from a subtle difference in focal points. These were both shot handheld @ f2.8, so have a depth of field of just a few millimetres. There was…
Well that’s it for another year. A thoroughly enjoyable weekend of good coffee, great company, good coffee, chatting to passers bye, good coffee, selling a few prints, oh and good coffee. It certainly proved brisker trade then last year with plenty of customers leaving the railings of St Stephen’s Green happily with a nice print…
Well it’s hard to believe Peoples Photography has come around again. It’s been a full year since my first foray and I feel a lot more prepared this time round, both in terms of the caliber of my images and my general preparations. This year I really focused on the quality of the end product…
A second batch of images from the picturesque Kilruddery House & Gardens. This time all but one of the images are from my 2nd visit in early August. If you look really closely you may notice a trend in today’s images. No? Ok then they’re all of Lilies. The gardens contain a very large pond…
Well yet again an unintended extended break, although this time just from actually publishing images as I have managed to get out on several occasions over the last few months including two trips to Amsterdam and two to Kilruddery House & Gardens. This is the first batch from my visit to Kilruddery House & Gardens…
Working through a back catalog at the moment, this is from a visit to the Zoo back in April. I find these creatures fascinating and incredibly expressive. Seeing the juveniles play while the mother seemed somewhat lost struck me as a very human like behavior.
I ventured up to Wicklow on the advise of an avid walker who described this region as reminiscent of Vietnam, with it’s rolling hills fading into a misty background. It was a very windy evening and I was very exposed to the elements during these shots but I think it was worth it. I hope…
The good folks over at Canon Blogger as part of Jason’s excellent Learning Digital Photography ran a competition last month after Episode 22 where he interviewed Tom, Hogarty, Senior Product Manager for Adobe Lightroom. The folks at Adobe were good enough to provide Jason with a copy of Lightroom for the winner. And to my…