Vintgar Gorge 4w
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Remembering Autumn L Trecolpas
Another from France in October
Rule of Odds Sweet Reflections
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Sweet Reflection
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The rule of odds gone pear shaped
Offshoot weekly theme
Autumn evening in the Dolomites
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"Johnstown Castle" - Co. Wexford - Ireland
Johnstown Castle Estate, Museum & Gardens has a long and colourful story stretching over 800 years. Situated outside Wexford town in Ireland's south east, it is not only a significant property of national importance but a place of great romantic charm and tranquility.
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Dunquin
35mm B+W film using Canon AE1
Waves at Winestrand
35mm B+W film using Canon AE1
Dainty Anemone
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Cortina Valley
Dolomites
Pier and Lexicon
Dun Laoghaire East Pier and the Lexicon Library from a balcony of the Royal Marine Hotel.
Glendalough Co Wicklow
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Glendalough Co Wicklow
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Lago de Predil 1w
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RULE OF ODDS
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Salute - Umbrella
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Three plus Three plus Three. - Rule of Odds
Offshoot Weekly Theme
L for portrait -
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Red Deer Stag
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Formal Portrait Jontie
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Formal Portrait Luke Killiney walk 2021
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Cinque Torri
Dolomites
Almost Full Moon
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Obelisk Sunset
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Reeds 4
A few from the very misty morning I spent in Glanteenassig Woods on the Dingle Peninsula back in August. I love the abstract patterns formed by the reeds in the still water, with the heavy mist removing any background colour.
Into the Mist
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You looking at me ?
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Autumn Colours Glendalough
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autumn in a dish
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shapes
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Cloughlea Bridge
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Bohinjsko Lake w
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Grey Heron
Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea) in Kilbogget Park
Cloughlea Bridge
Autumn colours at Cloughlea
Croda da Lago
Dolomites
Stepping stones, Tolymore
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Got it!
Ireland 29 v New Zealand All Blacks 20
Croagh Patrick
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The ball is on the ground
Ireland 29-20 New Zealand
Colourful Path
Mount Usher Gardens
Lots of Colour
Mount Usher Gardens
2, don't make a right!
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Mount Usher Gardens
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Autumn
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Reflection
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Croda da Lago
Dolomites
Rocking gondols
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Turnstone Birds
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Maple
Mount Usher | Offshoot Outing
Just hanging
Mount Usher Gardens
Red Tree Bark
Mount Usher Gardens
Black Focused
Mount Usher Garden
Reflections-2
Mount Usher Garden
Yellow Flower-Rain Drops
Mount Usher Gardens
Colours
Mount Usher Gardens
Yellowhammer Bird- dancing in the rain
The yellowhammer is a colourful member of the bunting family and, as its name suggests, its plumage is dominated by yellow. Males in particular are a very striking bright yellow, and in breeding plumage can appear almost canary–like, but with narrow black lines around the eyes and cheeks and a rustier breast. Females are much duller than the males, but are still obviously yellow, with brown face markings and brown streaking on the body, while juveniles tend to be a streaky brown with very little yellow showing. They can however be separated from most small brown birds by their combination of a rich chestnut rump and white outer tail feathers. The main cause for the yellowhammer’s plummeting numbers is the intensification of agriculture and the dramatic decline in arable and mixed farmland (more than 91% of Irish farmland is now under grass). Other contributory factors are the destruction and over-management of our hedgerows, and the widespread use of herbicides to kill weeds, robbing seed-eating birds like the yellowhammer of their natural winter food supply.
Derryclare Lough
I discovered this place on my first visit to Galway back in 2008. It sneaks up on you behind a bend in the road, so I slammed on the brakes and reversed into the dirt lot to take a snap, not knowing that this is probably the most photographed location in Connemara.
Thirteen years and a few visits later I finally got this shot with a nice morning mist and beautiful light during a workshop with Explore Light. No doubt I'll be back again.
Blue hour at Lake Bled
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bouncy dog
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Irish Cottage in Autumn
From a Waterfall workshop last Sunday with Ronan HD
Offshoot challenge after Ray Metzker iii ( Door County series ) HMBT
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Lago Antorno Reflection
Dolomites
Offshoot challenge after Ray Metzker ii
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mIn the style of Joel M. for camera club
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in the style of Joel m
for week competition on street photography
Eilean Glas lighthouse
This lighthouse is on the Isle of Scalpay, which is connected to the Isle of Lewis and Harris by a road bridge.
What this photo doesn't show is the strength of the wind and rain as we were trying to take the photo as the sun broke through at daybreak for a short few minutes! Had to have the tripod low to the ground, and find a sheltered a spot as possible.
In all the rush, I didn't realise that I'd accidentally reset the ISO, so I was talking my photos at ISO4000! Luckily at this size it doesn't look too bad given such a high ISO. A lesson learned.
The One That Got Away
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Paying Tribute to the Lake God
I had an amble around the shores of the Polaphouca reservoir at the bank holiday weekend, thinking I might try my hand at some long exposure minimalist waterscapes.
The results of that were mixed and I was finding it difficult to compose anything more than slightly rippled water without much in it. Eventually, I spent a while trying to get some pictures of a couple of tree stumps that I thought would serve as interesting features, without getting anything that really captured my imagination.
It was only after getting home and looking at the image on a larger screen that I saw a couple of sculpted human heads in the lake.
The one on the right definitely has the imperious expression of the Easter Island statues and I'm sure the fellow on the left bears more than a passing resemblance to Akhenaten. I just hope his offering of a half submerged rock is enough to pacify the powers of Irish Water and my taps don't get cut off at the next freeze. 😉
La Napoule Sunrise 1
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Lago de Predil, Italy w
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Loan Swimmer
A different perspective of Dublin Bay from the Northside (DNS)
Emo 1
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Mystic Reflections (2)
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Dis-graceful delection
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Autumn in the Dolomites
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Fishermans Cottage Connemara
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Photo Stacking. Chinese Lanterns
Offshoot weekly theme
Monumental
Callanish standing stones on the Isle of Lewis. Set up in Neolithic times, some time between 2900 and 2600 BC.
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Mountain Hut - Autumn Lac Allos
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focus stacking for Offshoot challenge (2)
feel it could be better will have to try again!
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Chocolate Box - Lake Bled w
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Let's go
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Precious moment
Take time to walk
in nature
to feel and to
know her beauty.
Sandymount Sunset
Dublin
"Autumn Reflections" - Grand Canal Dublin
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Breaking wave
A couple from Scarista beach on the Isle of Harris.
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The clouds and light just went crazy - changing in seconds
Cormorant Bird learning to dance an Irish Jig
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sunday rain on the way
clouds glencree
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21-10-30 5627- 2C-Sunrise.
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21-10-30 5618-Just before Sunrise.
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Early Morning Rowers
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Turbulence
Another one from our first stormy day on Lewis and Harris
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The last hurdle at Bellewstown Racecourse
Bellewstown Racecourse was the venue for one of the biggest betting coups ever. In 1975 Barney Curley devised an elaborate scheme in which he wisely backed a highly unfancied racehorse he owned named Yellow Sam. His gamble paid off, costing Irish bookmakers £300,000 (the equivalent today of £2.5million).
He hoped that Yellow Sam’s starting price would be around 20–1, though Curley knew that if large sums of money were being placed on the horse, his price would promptly drop, thus significantly reducing the potential earnings. Consequently, he ensured that he would compete at the National Hunt race at Bellewstown — an obscure track with only one public telephone in the vicinity.
Countless accomplices of Curley were located in bookmakers across the country with between £50 and £300 in their possession. Curley then rang six or seven people who in turn rang 10 others, as he invested £15,000, virtually his entire savings, into the gamble.
25 minutes before the start of the race, in the ‘phone booth at Bellewstown a friend of Barney’s pretended he needed to ring a dying aunt, which persuaded others to allow him to use the ‘phone for half an hour, as bookies tried and failed to contact their counterparts in order to lay off their liabilities.
He was also famed for the work he did for his charity, Direct Aid For Africa, which he founded in 1996 and he devoted much of his life to building and maintaining schools and hospitals in Zambia.
Morning Mist
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