Living for Light

It rained yesterday.

I have a macro lens.

and a clothes line

and a large population of spiders in the garden.

I like this.

ETA: and so did the nice people at Pixie where it has been voted TOTD. Yay.

I’ve come to the conclusion that other people are better at selecting jewellery for me than I am. This is from one of my friends who thought a necklace that featured some element of the sea was suitable for someone like me. The blue piece of glass is seaglass. You can collect seaglass on most [...]

Today is an auspicious day. It’s the first day in about a month that no one else is screaming for me to do stuff for them. It’s a nice feeling, although I feel guilty that I’m not doing all the housework, but lounging around dreaming up excuses not to go swimming.

I did, however, do two [...]

When I need flowers, I go to the Botanic Gardens because they are close to me. Today, however, the crew at Photowalk.ie had lined up a trip to Airfield Farm, somewhere near Dundrum. As I rarely venture southside, I was afraid I’d get lost finding it. Fortunately I didn’t.

I go through flower phases.

but I think [...]

I went to Howth this evening with the view to doing another timelapse. When I got there, I’d a different vibe, so I dropped the idea of running up to the lighthouse and trying to find somewhere “good” to shoot 1500 photographs of over 2 hours including sunset and got out the macro lens instead.

I [...]

Going back a little bit with this one. I’m pretty sure it was the macro lens, and I have no idea what I was doing playing with fire. Trying to light the gas fire I’d say; it typically took three to six attempts most days.

The blue cast comes from the plate that the melting ice cube was sitting on. It was lit with one on camera Speedlite.

One of the nice things about spring springing up like it is in Dublin at the moment is the world looks a whole lot better. I don’t know about you but the winter [...]

We’ve been hit with an unusually cold spell lately in Ireland. Much is being made of the lack of preparation for something which happens every 30 years or so. One of our pipes burst yesterday and driving in and out of the estate is rarely anything other than difficult. I wish the ice would melt [...]