Taken in Aherlow Woods in County Tipperary during a winter trip there way back in November 2014.
The photo was taken on a Canon Eos 20D using a 18-55mm lens fitted with a deep red filter for that little bit of extra contrast. Hope you like it.
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Knocksink Woods in Enniskerry
I took this photo during a recent trip to Knocksink Woods near Enniskerry, County Wicklow. I used to visit this place a lot when I was a little kid growing up in Dundrum. We used to hop on the bus to Enniskerry and take the short walk back to Knocksink where you could literally go wild for a few hours with a gang of your friends, there were no rules up here and we would spend hours sliding down the steep hills until there was no arse left in our jeans. Great memories and I still love the place. Great to still see kids sliding down the slopes on their bums too.
Taken on a Canon Eos 20D with a 18-55mm lens.
Flower in the Glen Of Aherlow, Tipperary
This shot was taken during a trip to the Glen of Aherlow in County Tipperary. It was a beautiful winters day, by that I mean the sun was shining but it was still baltic outside in the woods. It’s a beautiful part of the country with lots of unspoilt forest walks and treks. We rented one of the superb lodges on the grounds of Aherlow House Hotel, highly recommend it if you want to tour around that part of Ireland.
Taken on a Canon Eos 20D using a 50mm lens and a high contrast red filter.
Jimmy Joe
I’m not actually sure whether it’s just here in Ireland that we called the lovely fluffy seed heads of the Dandelion flower “Jimmy Joe’s” or “Jinny Joe’s” or do other countries use this term too. These things always remind of being a child running around trying to catch as many of them as possible, if it’s actually possible to catch flowers that is. I still can’t resist picking them and blowing all the wee seeds from the top and watching them float off in the breeze, something still very charming about it.
I took this photo in 2016 in The Deer Park in Mount Merrion late on a sunny summers evening.
Taken using my trusty old Eos 20D.
Maudabawn in County Cavan
Taken in County Cavan in a lovely town called Maudebawn, close to Cootehill.
This was originally The Maudabawn Cultural Centre but you can now rent the whole thing out and stay there.
Highly recommend it too.
Long exposure digital shots.
Massey Woods
It’s been a while since I’ve been here, apologies.
Here’s a photo I took in Massey Woods in Dublin last summer.
Rusty Metal Fence
This photograph was taken in a well hidden location of the park somewhere between the Castleknock Gate and Ashtown Gate not too far from the very beautiful Whitefields Lodge. It’s another one of those hidden wildernesses that I stumble upon from time to time in the park and end up spending hours rambling around without seeing a single person.
The textures and tones of the rusting old fence were just perfect for a black & white print, if possible I would recommend clicking on the image and viewing it full size on your screen to really get the full effect.
I took this photo several months ago on a Bronica 120mm film camera using Kodak film. The print was made by hand in the darkroom and printed on Kentmere paper.
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Poolbeg Lighthouse, South Wall and The Pigeon House.
Pigeon House and Poolbeg Lighthouse, Dublin, a set on Flickr. [Click on the link to view to full set, or you can click on any photo above to view individual photographs from the set instead]
I just wanted to share this new series of photographs that I have published on my Flickr page.
These shots were all taken just this week down in the South Wall and Poolbeg area of Dublin. I was down there on Tuesday morning quite early for some amazing winter sunshine, alright then it’s spring but it sure don’t fell like it. After a few hours slowly walking out towards Poolbeg Lighthouse I turned around to see that the weather was no longer being very kind to me as a mist descended over the moutains way beyond the Sandymount area. I can’t say I care that much about getting caught out in a rainstorm but I can tell you that my camera really doesn’t appreciate. So I hightailed it back to my transport for the day and sat there eating home made bread and drinking coffee from a flask that I had forgotten was in the car. An hour later and the sun it cometh back. I took myself off to Sandymount Strand then for another few hours before noticing a snow flake or two landing on my camera. I then turn around to realise just how far I had walked out on the beach towards The Pigeon House and it’s fair to say there was nowhere to hide now. At least this time I have a rain cover for my camera bag and once that was in place I just stood in the middle of a beach and enjoyed the snow. It’s not everyday you can enjoy a brief snowfall whist standing on a beach. So here’s the series of photographs from that eventful excursion.
Infra Red Film
This is one of my first forays into the surrealistic world of infra red film. I have posted many digital infra red shots in the past but this here is one of the first examples of infra red film. I must say this was a really really exciting trip to the park. I felt like a little child again as I shot two rolls of film and literally had no idea if anything would come out on them. Do any of you remember waiting on a roll of film to arrive back from the chemist when you were a kid, it used to take a couple of days and then the excitement when you got your prints. I decided not to develop the film myself this time as I didn’t want any mistakes to be made on my part. After a few days waiting I received two rolls of perfectly exposed infra red film all ready and waiting to join me in the dark room. Some of these photographs took up to four minutes to actually expose and if you look really closely just to the left of the tree in the lower area of the sky you can see the trails of two airplanes. I even had a small herd of around ten deer stroll in to the photograph but alas none of them ended up appearing in the final print, I promise you they were there but unfortunately the moved too fast through the scene.
The photograph was taken using a Bronica medium format 120mm camera. I used a roll of Rollei Infrared 400s film and then made the print in the darkroom on Kentmere paper.
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Two Hawthorns
I’ve only recently become aware of my complete and utter fascination with the much maligned hawthorn tree. The reason I have only recently become aware of this is down to the simple fact that I never really knew that these were hawthorn trees, for some very strange reason I always thought hawthorns were just scrawny little bushes that grew on the side of every Irish rural road. It seems I have been very wrong all these years. I wouldn’t mind but I have been taking photographs of these truly beautiful trees for nigh on twenty years now and it never occurred to me to ask somebody in the know what they actually were.
At this juncture I should also point out that I am formerly a cabinetmaker so I really should know a thing or two about the names of the trees I was working with. I’m thinking I may have missed that particular day in school.
I do really love these tree though, just look at the shape of this little beauty. They never really grow to any great heights but when it comes to pure individualism these creatures win every time.
If you look really closely to the right of the trees you can see the GAA goalposts way off in the distance.
The photo was taken using a very old Bronica film camera. I used Kodak Tri-x 120mm film. The print was made in a traditional wet darkroom by my very own hands using Kentmere fine art photographic paper.
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Visions of The Phoenix Park 