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Red tulip

One of the older photographs.

I think this was from my sister’s garden, and I believe it was taken with the 50mm. I’ve forgotten though I suppose I could check the file data except it’s not on the flickr page (what was I thinking) and I am not sure where the file is stashed in terms [...]

Botanic Garden – I am so bad at knowing stuff about flowers…

Yes, well this is from one of the trips to the Botanic Garden to effectively utilise the macro lens that was bought to create fantastic shell photographs. It hasn’t quite worked out that way.

I’ve other plans for the lens though and will be looking for volunteers willing to model their eyes. I did some of [...]

Flower, Botanic Gardens, Dublin

Not sure why this didn’t get posted around the time it was taken. It was taken into the sun and I can’t remember how I managed to avoid turning it into a silhouette. I’m pretty sure I was not firing flash.

Anyway, a lot of people seemed to like it, so here it is.

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Earlier today I [...]

White flower, National Botanic Gardens, Dublin

Today was one of those days where I just had to get the camera out and do something. Anything. The weather was “mixed” at best, and really, lent itself to doing the ironing rather than going to the beach. I wound up with the flowers in the Botanic Garden, armed with the 100mm macro lens [...]

Myrtleville Co Cork, Ringaskiddy Co Cork

I had a little time to kill today so I went to Myrtleville, Fountainstown and Ringaskiddy this morning/afternoon, not quite sure because it being Sunday, time is nothing.

This is from Myrtleville around lunchtime. In truth I should have gone down there last night night when the tide was high.

and this is the same [...]

Flowers, plenty of them.

One of the bad things about having lost a complete site is that you’ve also lost a load of stuff you’d written about before. I don’t just do kitesurfers, and I don’t just do pinky coloured slow exposures. I do some macro as well.

At some stage earlier during the year I went to the Botanic [...]