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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 [...]

The Slowly Rusting Docked Boat

Here’s another of my many pictures from my time in Malta, specifically at the port in Gozo. Although I took five exposures of this I only realised when looking at them that the boat was bobbing up and down with the tide so they couldn’t really be aligned It still turned out alright [...]

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 [...]

The Empty Church of Gozo that echoed every sound

So it’s now 2010, we’re in the future, and I still don’t see any flying cars! Well maybe 2011 then. In the meantime here’s another photo from Gozo. I always find churches especially creepy, and this one was no exception – inside was totally lifeless and every footstep echoed all over the place; it was [...]

HDR Tutorial Part 2 – Hardware & Image Capture

(N.B. This is Part 2 of my HDR Tutorial. Part 1, which is a brief introduction to HDR, can be found here.) Right, we know now what HDR is and what type of results we can achieve from the whole process. The next step is to actually get outside and take some RAW images! For this [...]

Seeing the Paris skyline from the Tour Montparnasse

On my second trip to Paris in October I was made aware of the Tour Montparnasse: a giant of a building on top of which you can go outside and view a wonderful 360 degree panoramic of Paris. The Tour Montparnasse also happens to be home of Europe’s fastest elevator – rocketing you up from [...]

HDR Tutorial (Part 1)

(N.B. This is Part 1 of my HDR Tutorial, Part 2 can be found here) It’s been one year now since I started dabbling in HDR photography and thought it was high time to put together a tutorial on the subject. HDR (High Dynamic Range) photos are running rampant on the internet at the moment, so I’m [...]

Edinburgh Castle at the end of The Royal Mile

There’s a famous stretch of road in Edinborgh, that reaches from Edinburgh Castle to Holyroad Abbey. I don’t know why but I didn’t get any photo of the Abbey – I did do the Mile though! We went inside the castle walls but didn’t bother with paying into the castle interior – it was the [...]

New Theme – Yay or Nay???

Christmas is a time of change blah blah blah… so I’ve been looking to change my site’s look for a while now, the blue and orange just wasn’t cutting it for me anymore. I found this great theme over at Digital Visions and so far I’m loving it far more than the old one. I’ve [...]

The Scottish Jungle

I’ve just finished wrapping all my Christmas presents (I’m not sure you can call it ‘wrapping’, more like sticking bits of scrunched up paper to boxes until I can’t see the box anymore!), so It’s relaxation time Here’s another picture from the botanical gardens in Glasgow, Scotland. There is a central circle of tropical [...]

Fan Shaped Flower at the Botanical Gardens in Glasgow

It’s been a while since I posted in any sort of consistant manner but it’s the Christmas holidays now so I have some free time . After jumping on some super cheap flights (€12 return!) to Glasgow with a few friends, I was dragged to the Botanical Gardens there by one particular tree hugin friend! [...]

Still Alive

I’ve just noticed that it’s been over 2 months since I last posted anything!! I’m coming within the last two or three months of my PhD and it’s really taking over all my time, leaving me with very little oppertunity to do anything else I was back in Paris recently as part of [...]

Endless Fruits

This was from one fantastic market in Barcelona off las ramblas – furits, fish, sweets of every colour – amazing! I’ve been dabbling in the world of microstock photography of late – it definitely requires an element of contraint when choosing what to photograph! I’ve submitted to a number of sites with varying degrees of success [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Orange City

I’m just back from a quick stroll around Glendalough in Co. Wicklow (Ireland), so expect the next few post to be suspiciously green, but first here’s another quick shot from Malta. It’s in the city (loose term) of Mdina, where the designers decided absolutely everything should be a shade of orange. Technorati Tags: malta, gozo, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Who’d Sit On This Bench

Wow it’s been some time since my last post – they will likely be spread out like this for the next few months unfortuantely – more pressing life matters have taken over I go on an unplanned trip to Barcelona for two days and all I find is wind, rain, and overcast skies! Meanwhile [...]

The Never Ending Path

There’s a great public garden somewhere in Florence that we took advantage of since our original plan to visit some museums was ruined by the fact that they were all closed for a national bank holiday! Although I didn’t actually walk up here it looked like it went on forever and ever and ever and [...]