Jay
Autumn in the garden
On the Hunt
Dodder River
Hiroshima Dome
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Waterfalls Autumn (1 of 1)
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Ballydwan Sea Stacks - Sunset
Another from the Offshoot Copper Coast Weekend
Zebra patterns, Botswana
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Kilkenny Cathedral main aisle-1
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Dublin views
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Dublin views
Lough Boora
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Reflection dublin Liffey
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The Lonely Tree v.1
Two shots of the famous tree at Llanberis, often called the lonely tree. Taken back in March after a heavy snowfall which added to the atmosphere of the picture. The pink glow in v.1 only lasted for a few brief minutes.
Dunmore Head Sunset
Dingle, Co. Kerry
Ballinacourty Lighthouse
Copper Coast, Co. Waterford. Nov.'23
Mirror Mirror on the River who is the fairest of them all
Heron fishing on the River Dodder
Catch Of The Day
Offshoot outing, Dodder
Phew, I made it to the top
A baby Otter at the top of the weir in Rathfarnham after a number of failed attempts. Perseverance pays lol
Irish National War Memorial Gardens, Islandbridge
49,500 Irish souls were lost during WW1. The Edwin Lutyens designed gardens are an assembly of pavilions connected by a grand pergola, with obelisks, fountains and rose gardens.
Waterfall (over the edge)
Lower Dodder
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Lower Dodder
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Mosque, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.
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40 Foot
Dunlaoighre
Topiary, waiting for a ladder
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Autumnal colours
Kenmare
Autumnal colours
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Mosque, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.
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Arenal Beach Javea
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Arenal Beach Javea
Morning swim (1 of 1)
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Irish National War Memorial Gardens, Obelisk
49,500 Irish souls were lost during WW1. The Edwin Lutyens designed gardens provide a space to remember and reflect on them, their bodies never came home.
Morning light
Copper Coast
Autumn Folly
Taken on Offshoot Copper Coast Trip
Ballydwan Sunrise, Copper Coast
Ballydwan, Copper Coast, Waterford. Nov.'23
ICM 1
I was playing around with Intentional Camera Movement (ICM) earlier in the year for a project for the camera club. My idea was to do a range of ICM landscape shots, moving from less abstract to more abstract over the range of the panel of eight shots.
The first is a fairly conventional landscape with the sea, sandy beach and land behind.
Autumn in Cortina
Dolomites
Kilfarassy
Copper Coast Waterford
Minimalism at The Groynes
The Cunnigar Waterford
Funningur panorama re-edit
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Copper Coast
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Sunset at Ballydwan
Ballydwan Beach Waterford
Black-backed Jackal, Botswana, Africa
The black-backed jackal is a fox-like canid with a slender body, long legs, and large ears. It is similar to the closely related side-striped jackal and more distantly related to the golden jackal, though its skull and dentition are more robust and the incisors much sharper. It weighs 6–13 kg (13–29 lb), stands 38–48 cm (15–19 in) at the shoulder, and measures 67.3–81.2 cm (26.5–32.0 in) in body length.
Black-backed jackals are monogamous, living together until one of the mates dies. Mating once in a lifetime, they are very selective about their choice. Black-backed jackals are a strong social unit: they closely cooperate, building shelter and finding food together.
They often hunt in packs to make it possible to bring down large prey. However, black-backed jackals have also been found to hunt alone or in mated pairs.
They are territorial animals, fiercely and aggressively defending their home range. Usually, unpaired adults, who are looking for mates, have larger home ranges than paired adults. Black-backed jackals communicate, using scent marking and vocalization. They communicate with each other by means of growling, woofing, howling, and yelping sounds. I have also observed them being loving and affectionate with each other.
Kilfarrasy, Copper Coast
Kilfarrasy, Copper Coast, Waterford, Ireland Nov.'23
Whooper Swans, late afternoon arrivals.
East Coast Reserve, Wicklow. Light fading, undercarriage down, I think you can see the excitement in their faces as these Whooper Swans complete their no doubt arduous journey from Iceland and elsewhere.
Sunken Boat Glencarr Lough co Leitrim
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Mosque, Yangon, Myanmar
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Ballydwan Beach at Dawn 2
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View of Copes Mountains County Sligo/Leitrim
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Evening supper
Newly arrived Whooper Swans having completed their long migration are very hungry, feasting long into the evening.
B+w people on the pier
South Wall Poolbeg
6G2B7796-pier walkers
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Kingfisher hunting 2: extraction
Dodder River
Glenncarr Waterfall , County Leitrim
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Secretary Bird (Sagittarius serpentarius)
It is a long-legged bird, with a slender but powerful body 1.2 m (3.9 feet) long and a 2.1-metre (6.9-foot) wingspread. Twenty black crest feathers make it appear to be carrying quill pens behind its ears, as secretaries once did. It has a light gray body, black thighs and flight feathers, and white wing linings. Its head and beak resemble those of the caracara. Its tail has a pair of long central streamers. Its legs have thick scales to protect the bird from snakebite.
Snakes are the main food of secretary birds, a diet supplemented by lizards, grasshoppers, mice, and birds’ eggs. Secretary birds hunt on foot, in pairs or small groups that keep in contact by hooting. They kill snakes by stamping or flailing them against the ground, sometimes dropping them from aloft.
Secretary Bird (Sagittarius serpentarius)
The Secretary bird is a wonderfully peculiar character that roams across sub-Saharan Africa.
It is the only member of its family, Sagittariidae, which is found nowhere else on earth.
These long-legged raptors are world renowned for their ability to expertly dispatch their prey with precise and powerful kicks, prey that notably includes venomous snakes.
Unlike most birds of prey, these birds hunt their prey on foot. Adults hunt in pairs and sometimes as loose family flocks, stalking through the habitat with long strides. The birds often flush out prey from tall grass by stomping on the surrounding vegetation.
Their crest feathers may raise during a hunt, which may serve to help scare the target and provide shade for the face. A bird will chase after prey with the wings spread and kill by striking with swift blows of the feet.
Only with small prey items such as wasps will the bird use its bill to pick them directly. Occasionally, like other raptors, they will hold down a food item with their feet while tearing it apart with their bill. Secretary birds are normally silent but can utter a deep guttural croaking noise in nuptial displays or at nests.
The bird’s name is just as intriguing as its appearance. There are two intriguing facts about the name of this bird, whose origin is hotly contested. One explanation contends that the term was given because of the creature’s resemblance to official secretaries from the 1800s. They dress in dark knee-length leggings, a goose-quill pen behind the ear, and grey tailcoats. The secretary bird received its name because the feathers on the back of its head mimic the quill pen behind the ear.
According to a different version, the name secretary was derived from the Arabic phrase “saqr-et-tair,” which originally meant hunter bird but is now pronounced secretary.
Golden Light at Sunrise
Taken on Offshoot Copper Coast Weekend
Mosque, Malaysia
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Sunrise at Ballydwan
Ballydwan Beach Waterford
Mystic sunrise at Ballydwan
Long exposure-First time
Croda da Lago Reflection
Dolomites
Dawn at Ballydwan
Copper Coast
Ballydwan Beach at Sunset
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Zebra, Botswana, Africa
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Otter with catch
One of a pair of Otters cruising a stretch of the river Dodder, with some successful fishing!
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Tranquility at Dawn
Sunrise at the Cuniger Ring Co Waterford.
Ballydwan Beach
Copper Coast
helvic sunrise (1 of 1)
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Bridge Dublin
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Goliath Heron on Chobe river, Botswana, Africa
The Goliath heron (Ardea goliath) is a very large wading bird of the Heron family, Ardeidae. I tried for four hours trying to see one from a boat but when seen they flew away quickly. So glad to have captured the image. It was 40° Celsius (equal to 104° F with humidity in Botswana)
This is the world's largest living heron (the extinct Bennu heron was larger).
At 1.5 m in length and 4.5 kg in mass, Goliath herons are the largest of all living herons. They have a wingspan of 2m.
The closest extant relatives of the Goliath are considered to be the Great-billed and the White-bellied herons of Southern Asia. Due to their large size, this species trio is sometimes referred to as the "giant herons”.
In flight the Goliath heron has a slow and rather ponderous look and, unlike some other herons, its legs are not held horizontally. Male and female look similar, with an overall covering of slate gray and chestnut feathers. The head and its bushy crest, face, back and sides of the neck are chestnut. The chin, throat, foreneck, and upper breast are white, with black streaks across the foreneck and upper breast. The lower breast and belly are buff with black streaks. The back and upper wings are slate grey, with a chestnut shoulder patch at the bend of the wings when they're closed. The under-wing is pale chestnut. The upper mandible is black and the lores and orbital areas are yellow with a greenish tinge. The eyes are yellow while the legs and feet are black.
Teresa's trees
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Kilfarrasy Beach w
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A very scary hungry Hippo, Botswana, Africa
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Dov'e segnale?!?
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Dunquin Pier
Dingle, Ireland
Ballydwan Sunrise
Co Waterford
Sea Stack
Been looking for this spot for a while. Now that I've found it, I know why it's not more widely photographed. Bit of a scary scramble 🙂
copper mine towers
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Sunrise - Ballynacourty Lighthouse
Taken on Offshoot Copper Coast weekend
Sunrise at the Groynes on the Cunnigar
Copper Coast
Mosque, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.
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Ballydwan Beach at Dawn
Sea Stacks of the Copper Coast near Dungarvan
Leaf Lounge
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Pumpkin Carvers
Size is no barrier to the wee people getting into the spirit of Halloween, even if pumpkin carving does need a couple of ladders.
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Mosque, Malaysia
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View from Mount Brandon
Dingle, Kerry
PaulLobeHaus
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Oberbaumbrucke
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Inspired, Sir John Soane Museum
A treasure trove of classical details, statues, mouldings, etc., collected by Soane as source material for the education of his architectural students. Still inspiring today!
Manicure
The little people are perfectly qualified for detailed decorating jobs.
Steenbok (aka Steenbuck), Botswana, Africa
Steenbok are beautiful petite animals, weighing 7-16 kg and measuring 70-95 cm in length.
Known to survive without having to drink water, the steenbok derives its moisture needs from the food it eats, which includes leaves, roots and grass. Both sexes of the steenbok have territories which are aggressively defended against intruders. They occur singly or in pairs during the mating season.
Steenbok are preyed upon by all major predators with cheetah and leopard being the major protagonists. Despite their small size Steenbok are fiercely protective of their territories and young, and defend both at all costs.
Go To Work On An Egg
The little railway people are hard at work preparing breakfast.
Cortina Valley
Dolomites
Hint of Aurora, Dublin Bay
Weak Aurora, looking North from Bullock Harbour. Approx midnight 6th Nov.'23
Autumn light
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