Dalkey island
Drone panorama
Evening Rainbow
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True Blue
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MEAL TIME
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BOOTS - BAR TO CAR!!!!
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Pride Joyride
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Pride Colours
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Muglins Sunset June 2022
DJI Air2S shot from earlier this evening
LUV YA
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PRIDE 2022
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Nuthatch
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relaxed in the sunshine
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my visitor
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Lago di Anterselva
Dolomites
"Detail & Light"
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Blennerville Windmill, seeding the hills
Blennerville Windmill is located at the entrance to the Blennerville canal which links Tralee to the sea. Originally it milled grain prior to export, and was the centre of a thriving port area. Today it appears to be fostering a new harvest of the wind spreading across the landscape. Kerry County Council have recently voted to severely restrict further wind farm developments to a small section of the county.
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I've always loved those Old Soda dispensers - but never seen them in such vibrant colours before
Wild Atlantic Way
At Downpatrick head.
Is this the smallest door in Dublin? - Ireland
Saint Anne's Park - Dublin Clontarf East, Raheny, Co. Dublin
Slow waterfall
River Moy
King's Ceiling
The ceiling of King's College chapel, Cambridge. It's the largest fan vault in the world and was constructed between 1512 and 1515, in a change to the original plans, which called for a more traditional lierne vault that would normally be used for roofing such a wide span. From the outside, the walls of the side chapels that run the entire length of the building cleverly hide the buttresses necessary to prevent the weight of such a flat vault from pushing the chapel's walls outwards and from the inside, the vast stained glass windows give the impression that the stone vault is held up by little more than glass.
Most of the stone of the vault is no more than 10cm thick
"A Beautiful Rose" - Windyridge
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Low tide - Bull Island Nature Reserve - Ireland
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Gap of Dunloe
Nice cycle with pitstops through the Black Valley and the Gap of Dunloe recently
Killala bay3
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Vico Sunrise
Killiney
Secret Garden
I was wandering around Norwich late in the afternoon, when I spotted an arched entrance to somewhere or other. I expected it to be nothing more than somebody's backyard or one of those anonymous lanes that leads to an equally anonymous piece of wasteland, but I saw that it had a name, if not quite an official street sign, so it was quite clearly *somewhere*. Sticking my head through, I discovered a whole secret world.
This is the kind of place best discovered accidentally. It even took me a bit of searching afterwards to find out just where it was, as at first, I couldn't even find it on the map.
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sunny lighthouse thursday
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Piazza Erbe, Verona at Dusk w
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rose and frame
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waves horn head
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Follow the sign - Dublin Ireland
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Enjoying the Sunset - Dublin Bay
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Bluebell visitor
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Milky Way, over Ilen River, West Cork
Cottage silhouetted against lights of Baltimore, Galactic Core visible just above tree lined horizon.
Enter the Dragon
Sandymount, Dublin
Little Grebe
Johnstown Castle lake on Offshoot outing
Clock and time - Dublin Ireland
Stephen's Green - Dublin 4
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fruit and veg
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Beware of the cowpats
Fanal Forest Madeira
The mystical Fanal forest
The mystical Fanal Forest is part of the Laurisilva forest of Madeira which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site known for its ecological importance and beauty.
15 to 40 million years ago, most of Southern Europe was covered in this type of laurel forest. But nowadays, it can only be found in Madeira, the Azores, and the Canary Islands.
In the mysterious mist from the low clouds an incredible atmosphere is created amongst the twisted branches of these ancient trees creating a fairy-tale scene.
Black and yellow
Blackbird in Cabinteely park
Nice food at the National College of Art and Design - Dublin Ireland
A specific project combining: art, cooking and culinary history. Made by R. Mc Carthy
National College of Art and Design - Dublin 8
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Jewish Museum, Berlin
The 1930’s saw ever increasing limits on the rights of Jews in Germany, enshrined in a vast program of laws and regulations, superficially legalising oppression
Dun Laoighaire Marina Last boat into the harbour
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Light trails Luas and Cars Sandyford
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Sciliar, Alpe di Siusi
Dolomites
Red Squirrel
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A stroll through the woods
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shiny reflections
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shiny surface
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shiny seaweed Ii
for Offshoot project
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shiny seaweed
for Offshoot project
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Shiny - Winnebago
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Eurasian Juvenile fledgling Bullfinch (pyrrhula pyrrhula) being fed by the Adult Male Bullfinch in the forest
The Bullfinch is a medium-sized finch that has quite a round body, with a large robust bill. Males and females have a black cap that extends forward around the bill, a grey back, black wings with a grey-white wing bar, a black tail and a white rump. However, while the female and juveniles are pinkish-grey, the male stands out with rose-red underparts. You are much more likely to see a bullfinch than to hear one as they are shy birds. They have a very soft and very subtle call which is a low, short whistle ‘peu’.
The male breeding song is very quiet as well, consisting of a descending series of notes, repeated at intervals. In addition, they are a skilful mimic and were popular cage birds at one point, with people determined to teach them different tunes that were played to them.
Breeding bullfinch pairs appear to remain together over several breeding seasons. They are not overly territorial during the breeding season, potentially due to the low density of occurrence, so it is not unheard of to see two males sharing a bird feeder.
They rarely breed in gardens as they prefer to nest in thick cover. However, you may still see them feeding, as adults can travel a long distance from the nest due to the patchy distribution of food. This means that they have developed special food sacs which are positioned in the floor of the mouth, allowing the parents to bring back food to their chicks. They are the only species of finch to have such sacs.
Relaxing sunset landscape - Clontarf - Ireland
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Hare- Looking forward to breakfast
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Reichstag Dome
Norman Foster’s renovation’s centrepiece is a light catching and light emitting lantern sitting directly over the elected representatives Chamber
Self Portrait After Dürer
From an Offshoot Shoot With Me workshop this spring.
Our task was to produce an image inspired by, or using the lighting and composition techniques of Renaissance art. I liked the idea of recreating Albrecht Dürer's 1500 self portrait. Once upon a time, I could even have had Dürer's hairdo, but that would have been some time ago now...
It was shot with a fairly simple single light in a softbox in front of my right shoulder, with a reflector held by our group organiser Richard to stop the left side of my face vanishing entirely in the shadow. Very conveniently, Dürer's original pose allowed me to hold the remote shutter release out of the frame.
The text and monogram were hand written onto black paper with a metallic felt pen, shot separately and then copied in and scaled.
Post processing and editing were mostly fairly simple in PSP, the most time consuming part being copying in the black background from the portrait to replace that of the calligraphy, as they just didn't match. At times, I was working almost pixel by pixel at 400% magnification.
Overall, it was a very satisifying project.
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Hut on a Hill
Dolomites
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Oslo Opera House in the Blue Hour
Kilmitchel Point
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Kilmitchel Point
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blue dress
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Norfolk Desert
The desert wash in East Ruston old vicarage garden. 720nm IR, full contrast and structure, an Ilford Delta400 simulation and virtual selenium tone in Nik Silver Efex
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TCD Campanile
The Eyes have it!
Spotted on the beach in Lorne, Victoria, Australia
National Gallery of Victoria
Photo taken through 'water wall' at National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne.
Puffins, Great Saltee Island
Great Saltee Island, Co. Wexford. June'22
Stormy Sunrise
Vico Baths
The colorful bird - Bull Island Nature Reserve - Dublin Ireland
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Cormorant, Great Saltee Island
Cormorant, Great Saltee Island, Co. Wexford. June'22
Common Blue on Birdsfoot Trefoil
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Lake Garda Evening
Taken on a recent workshop organised by Rohan Reilly to Lake Garda, Italy.
The road through the clouds
Madeira
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Meadow Pipit
Great Saltee, June 2022
Little Tern
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reflection two
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Spire
Dublin's Spire
Jim Larkin
Jim Larkin with GPO in the background
Half and Half
Sandymount
Lapwing on Patrol- chasing off a crow
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Little Tern
Hovering coming in to land
Take the best chair in Dublin! - Dublin Ireland
Liffey River - between sunset and blue hour - Samuel Beckett's bridge
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Old Windmill
Goult France
The Black Valley
Cycled through the Black Valley this morning and made a couple of extra stops to take some photos. It was a beautiful morning.
Muckross lake
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Croda Rossa
Dolomites
2 Speedsters
Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, the worlds fastest jet (2,250 mph) and beyond, the Space Shuttle Discovery (17,500 mph). National Air and Space Museum, Washington.
Foggy
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Back garden evening light
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Padraic O'Connere
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Still Life
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Watch my Head
