Aherlow Woods in County Tipperary

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.

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.

 

The Glen Of Aherlow

I hope you will indulge me but from time to time I like to share some of my photography from outside the Phoenix Park with you.

I took this photo recently whilst on holidays in the Glen Of Aherlow in County Tipperary. It’s one of the most picturesque parts of Ireland and even on a wet and misty weekend I still got a chance to capture a few scenes like this one. Who said you can’t take good photographs in the rain eh?

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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.

New Life

I found this very strange creature during the summer of 2013 when I was out exploring the wild expanses of the Fifteen Acres in the park. It was a beautiful sunny morning after a night of heavy rainfall in the park and I always like to take a stroll through the long grass and forested areas on days like this. I could see this tree stump off in the distance and at first assumed somebody had actually planted a large stick into the rotting core of the tree. As I got closer it became apparent that what I was looking at was actually a brand new tree growing up through the centre of the original tree stump. I’m guessing the tree was either cut down because it was dead or maybe it had become unsafe in some way. Little did the park maintenance staff know that this tree had no plans of going away too easily. I’ve no idea if the new growth is part of the original tree or some opportunistic stranger who found a nice damp place to propagate, nor do I have any idea how it managed to pick such an unusual spot to start it’s new life. I’ll be keeping my eye on it over the next few years to see how it manages to expand in such a small space, I wonder will it slowly crack the original trunk beneath it so expect some follow on photographs at some stage.

Anybody out there know what kind of tree this is then please let me know, I’d love to know if you can identify it for me.

The photo was shot on Kodak Tri-x 120mm film using a Bronica medium format camera. The print was made on Kentmere paper by myself in the darkroom.

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