40 Foot

One from the 40 foot, 3 blended exposure of 6, 15 and 30 seconds.

Miserable Day

Bandstand against the sky




Rainbow on the horizon, not seen anything like it before!



HSS and the Pidgeon House

A couple from today, really dramatic sky as a result of the miserable weather!

A couple of edits

Upper Yosemite Falls from Swinging Bridge



Hetch Hetchy (don't drain the resevoir!!!!!)

Sorry about the complete lack of posts lately, I've been working insane hours. Lately I've been working on trying to blend to edits of the same picture in order to preserve more of the detail. So in the one of the bridge here, the original shot that I had, had the whole area of water completely white, which looked awful. However with a few simple edits, you can bring back a bit of the detail. These are both from Yosemite last summer.

killiney hill afterglow

High dynamic range shot from Killiney Hill from Tuesday evening

steps...

Stepping out into the light



Bathing steps, Sandycove

Steps!

Cormorant rock

Cormortant rock, with a cormorant on it...

Stephen's green

One from St Stephen's green shopping centre yesterday, turned out exactly as I wanted it to, which is always a nice (if rare!) thing.

Times Square dodge and burn

Just playing around with an old picture. Converted it to black and white and used dodge and burn to darken up the sky

mini marathon

just a shot from the mini marathon. So many women! Click to view this one large, it's only then that you get a lot of the detail. I love the one man trying to direcet them all, reminds me of the old story about the pebble controlling the flow of a river.





As with every other year, there were a few interlopers as well, no doubts raising lots of money for charity in most cases!

Cover shot!!!

Got the cover shot for this issues Irish Runner for a features picture of my mum, who has run all the Women's Mini Marathons to date (25th on Monday). It's a nice family thing to have her on the cover with me taking the photo, and the editor Frank Greally was very kind to both of us in the editorial! Might get more work from in future given how enthused he was. Anyway, here is it, my first cover shot!

P.S. good luck to anyone reading this who is running on Monday!


The cover



The picture on its own


Inside picture to accompany article

Another couple from Dun Laoghaire

Click to view large







Another couple from down in Dun Loaghaire last night, it was a lovely sunset.

Dun Laoghaire Sunset

Grand Central B&W

One that I edited into B&W from Grand Central when we were over in New York and Yale.

some more from Earlsfort!

A couple more from the L&H night in Earlsfort Terrace



one of Hugh looking dashing in his black tie.


One of Charles Lysaght's notes

Ruairi Quinn

To continue the electoral theme, here's a couple of pictures of Ruairi Quinn from the recent L&H challenge as part of the ''goodbye to the terrace'' series of events in UCD. He gave a brilliant speech, recollecting his time in the L&H, and what the experience had given to him.



During the speech



Something to do with Thomism...

it's a montage...!

Playing around in a last ditch effort to avoid studying. Some political figures past, present (for a couple of days at least!) and potentially future.

it's a montage...#

Cutty Sark

Very sad news today, that the Cutty Sark was gutted by fire. Just thought I'd post a picture from when I visited last summer. London truly wouldn't be the same without her. If you click to view the image full size, you can just make out of the hull in the blue section ''where there's a will is a way''. Let's hope the will to rebuild her can be achieved.

A couple more fashion ones

A couple more of the fashion shots from this issue of the Observer. The models are Sharleena and Kerry, Clothes from Penny's

one from Europe

A random shot from Europe last summer as I've not taken any pics in the last few days!

Rugby

A couple of decent enough rugby shots from UCD V. Belfast Harlequins in thier relegation showdown that UCD won on Saturday.

Dennis O'Brien

Front page shot from this week's Observer.

The spire

The spire, the sun, some people...

fashion shot

One from this Saturday's shoot, I'll post a few more tomorrow, decided for a less saturated/ granier/ dark edges (vignetted) look to bring out the 60's theme a bit more, might post the other version too to show the difference!

Tulip

It's a tulip, don't ya know.

Easter Sunday sunrise

Sunrise from Killiney hill on Easter Sunday

Dun Laoghaire Sunset

East Pier lighthouse



Wide angle of east pier

a yacht at sunset

Carlisle pier afterglow


The sun set yesterday in Dun Laoghaire. Here is the evidence. ;)

More beautiful weather today, took a few shots around the lake in UCD, where we sat around for most of the day! Was experiement with a strong fill flash in lighting people, quite like the results.

S.




Aine with fill flash


Shane with lighter fill flash


Human Pyramid!

campaign pic

Scott

Was asked to take a quick campaign pic by Scott, who is running for Arts Programme officer, turned out well enough.

Killiney hill sunset

Took a trip up Killiney hill for sunset this evening. Didn't get there quite early enough to get many shots from the woods, but got a few that were nice enough anyway. It's so beautiful up there, definitely have to go back during the summer and take some sunrise shots looking out over the bay.



The setting sun cast long shadows



The sunset itself, you might just notice the cranes over Sandyfor silhouetted in
the bottom right hand corner!


Gorse in the sun's glow


Some other who'd made it up there