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National Library of Ireland – National Photographic Archive

Today being Saint Patrick’s Day there’s a surfeit of shamrockery around the web, and I have decided not to post pictures of Guinness glasses.

Yesterday evening, the main evening news in Ireland on RTE at 6pm had a little featurette not on majorettes, but on the National Photographic Archive which now has a significant whack of [...]

Looking out at the sea…

This is just by way of something to decorate the walls of this post.

Joe McNally – who is fast becoming one of my favourite photography bloggers – has a piece here which I’d be hard pushed to describe. It’s a story of looking at life from the direction of a photographer who – basically – [...]

Surf photography…and aspirations.

I don’t specialise in surf photography. In Irish terms, the surf photographer of choice would almost definitely be Paudie Scanlon. I do the odd shot here and there but since I don’t spend much time in the water, it’s almost academic.

This is one of my favourite surf shots that I did take and it’s not [...]

Inspiring others.

Take a look at this post:  Modern Life is a mobile phone and coffee on the run.

Then go take a look at this image on flickr by swingking85.

Modern Life is…went up onto boards.ie in their random thread and caused some debate in the thread.

Yesterday I get a message from swingking85 – and yes I know [...]

Dollymount – SW Winds

Taking photographs when the sand is blowing like this is kinda of difficult.

Okay, a couple of things to run down at the moment.

Red Bull Illume is running again. I am under severe pressure for it because I did not realise it was coming up, need to check deadlines and select photographs. I can think 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 [...]

idle thoughts.

No photograph this time, sorry. Just some random witterings.

People’s Photography

People’s Photography ran at Stephen’s Green in Dublin this weekend. I hadn’t signed up for it because selfishly enough, I have been very, very busy lately and reached a point where I wanted to stop adding to stuff I had to do. I’ve done People’s Photography [...]