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The Deceptively Sunny Dingle Harbor.

Here is one of the very few scenes I could capture when I spent some time in Dingle, in County Kerry, over the new year. I never did get the opportunity to get out onto the water – even though the photo looks picturesque, Dingle is home to possibly the chilliest winds anywhere in the world and the last place I felt like being was away from the shelter of the shore :)

The Slowly Rusting Docked Boat


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How not to use a fishing net (And it’s my 200th post!)

I spent new years in Dingle, a small, small (small) village in Co. Kerry in South Ireland. The sum total of my activities were, in no particular order: eat, drink, sleep and shoot.

Seriously, shouldn’t that net be in the water or something? I’m no fisherman but my non-fishermen instincts were kicking in here. Unfortunately there were no actual fishermen around (apart from two I saw in a pub drinking Guinness at noon) outside who could help me on this niggling matter :(

There was a whole load of noise in this image – you can see some remnants of it just below the clouds. It was far worse but I cleaned most of it up using some nice software from Imagenomic. It’s called Noiseware Professional Plug in (this link is for the MAC version, the WINDOWS version is here.) It’s a Photoshop plugin that works wonders to drastically reduce the amount of noise in your images – the first time I used it my jaw nearly fell off! I now use it all the time (it’ll feature in my HDR Tutorial). I’ll do a proper review of it when I get the time.

I’ve said it already but I’ll say it again just to remind myself, I’ve started Part 3 of my HDR Tutorial, it’s getting there but still won’t be online for a couple more days – let’s put a definite latest date on it: 10th January :)

How not to use a fishing net


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Grandiose Glendalough

This was sort of the halfway point of my hike around Glendalough – we started on the left hand side down at the lake and worked our way around the hilltops down to the right hand side of the photo. This was one of those times I really wished I had a wide angle lens :(

You can see a largeer version of this image at my FlICKR page if you’re interested – see my FLCIKR link on the right sidebar? ——->>> Go on – give it a click :)

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Glendalough Lake

This is Glendalough, literally ‘Glen of the two lakes’. A group of us headed on a walk around it on Wednesday – a 9km hike involving wet socks and annoying midgets trying to eat you alive. Apart from that it was great though! I was in a rare mood and decided to take my tripod with me so I was able to make this shot is from 5 exposures +2 to -2.

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If You Visit Ireland Only Once, Make Sure You Drop By Kerry

It’s been 46 days since my last post. I used to post every single day, until I went out one night to grab a quick Guinness with two friends in Dublin and ended flying to Barcelona for two days – after that my daily routine was properly screwed up!

With any luck this post will be the first of a more regular series of updates, one every two or three days; again it’s from Kerry, the nicest place in Ireland I’m told, and I agree!

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Inch Beach In Kerry: Niiice

I spent the weekend of last week in Kerry visiting four friends and checking out some seriously awesome beaches along the way. This one here though was the best of the bunch – probably because the weather sucked at all the others. I was getting some real impressive driving lessons from my friend Catherine as well, well I was just sitting in the back seat while she bombed along the coast at 160mph – it was still great though!

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