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Capturing the Aurora Borealis over Killiney Hill and Dublin Bay in October 2024
October 21, 2024 - With 11 finished Aurora pictures and 5 "how I developed them" images.
Links to local places are to my pictures of them,...
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Shooting Comet Leonard in Ireland in Dec 2021
February 17, 2022 - I was thrilled to see my four-shot composite of Comet Leonard in the January 2022 issue of Astronomy Ireland magazine –...
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Dalkey Island's Heritage and Wildlife - A Photo Essay
July 21, 2021 - It was a bright sunny first Sunday of July 2021 when I went to Dalkey Island, Co. Dublin - a magical offshore island onl...
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Strawberry Moon on the Front Pages!
June 18, 2019 - It was great to wake up today to see my “Strawberry Moon” – the midsummer full moon - on the front pages of the Irish Ti...
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How (Not?) to Photograph a Lunar Eclipse – Dublin September 2015
July 27, 2018 - Early this week, the Dublin weather forecast for this evening’s lunar eclipse on 27 July 2018 looked promising and I was...
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Poolbeg Jogger
May 12, 2018 - I’m delighted to have had two of my favourite types of shots published in The Times (Ireland Edition) this month. The fi...
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Liffey Lights but No Eclipse Shots
August 24, 2017 - Last Monday evening, I headed into town in the hope of getting a shot of Ireland's very partial view of the Great Americ...
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Another Day - Another "Storm"
February 26, 2017 - Storm Doris was probably still blowing somewhere over Europe when news of her successor, Ewan started popping up in my f...
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Save Bulloch Harbour!
February 06, 2017 - Bulloch (or Bullock) Harbour between Dun Laoghaire and Dalkey is one of my favourite shooting locations so I'm upset by...
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Gale at The Great South Wall in Poolbeg, in Co. Dublin
February 02, 2017 - It was a bit wild at the Great South Wall in Poolbeg in Co. Dublin during the southeasterly gale and 4.0m high tide this...
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Plunge Pics at Dublin's Christmas Swim & How I Shot Them
December 30, 2016 - As well as shooting the Goal Mile in Shanganagh Park on Christmas morning, I also went into to the Forty Foot in Sandyco...
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Architectural Interiors at the Freemason's Hall in Dublin
November 19, 2016 - Recently, Offshoot’s got access to the Freemasons’ Hall in Molesworth Street in Dublin city centre. The building dates f...
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Dublin's 2013 Flightfest
July 22, 2016 - I’m planning to get to the Bray Air Display this weekend for the first time since 2010, so I decided to finally finish e...
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People at Cuala Mini-All-Ireland
July 06, 2016 - I've previously posted the best of my shots from the Cuala Mini-All-Ireland parade and players - and here's the final po...
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Players at Cuala Mini-all-Ireland
July 04, 2016 - Last Friday, I posted the first of three blog posts on Cuala's 2016 Mini-All-Ireland - the parade through Dalkey Village...
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Cuala Mini-All-Ireland Parade
July 01, 2016 - It was great to be asked by Cuala GAA - the best sports club in Ireland according to the Irish Times - to photograph the...
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Northern Lights Arcing over Dublin Bay
March 06, 2016 - I wrote a while back of my Aurora adventure in Co. Louth and since then I wondered if it would be possible to see the No...
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Pictures Are All We Have
February 25, 2016 - Words Are All We Have - Samuel Beckett.
Here's two shots of this month's full Moon setting over Dublin's Docklands duri...
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Shooting the Queen Mary 2 on Dublin Bay
May 21, 2015 - Yesterday morning, 20 May, Matt O'Brien and I were up ultra early to shoot the Queen Mary 2 as she arrived on her first...
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Solar Eclipse in Shankill
March 20, 2015 - The clouds over Shankill were just thick enough to allow me see the eclipse comfortably without eye protection - probabl...
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Patrick's Day Portraits in Dublin
March 17, 2015 - St. Patricks Day is a great opportunity to get street portraits - either in the parade or in the happy crowds for a whil...
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Happy St. Patrick's Day
March 16, 2015 - For the day that's in it - the March page from the St. Anne's Calendar that I shot last autumn - click on the pic to rea...
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Black Guillemots Contre-Jour
February 07, 2015 - Oops - updated on 10 Feb because I left out the last shot!
Photographing seabirds often involves trips to offshore isla...
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Teal in Tallaght
January 10, 2014 - Yesterday at lunchtime I took a quick trip to Sean Walsh Park in Tallaght to see a Caspian Gull found by Graham Prole –...
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High Tides at Poolbeg
January 06, 2014 - The Great South Wall at Poolbeg is one of my favourite shoot locations as you can see from this set of previous work on...
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Solstice Sunrise
December 17, 2013 - OK, there's four or five days to go to the winter solstice but at 130 degrees from Dublin according to the Photographer'...
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