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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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EIRE sign at St. John's Point Lighthouse in Donegal and D-Day
June 06, 2019 - As today is the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Normandy Landings on D-Day in 1944, I remembered some of my recent shot...
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Bray Air Display 2018 - People, Planes . . . and Wildlife??
July 31, 2018 - I previously shot the Bray Air Display in 2010 and 2016 and I’ve blogged about those shots here, here and here - as well...
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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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New Year Supermoon or Wolf Moon over Roches Point in Cork Harbour
January 04, 2018 - I was back in my old hometown of Cork for a few days over the New Year and despite the stormy weather of the past week o...
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Best 2017 Moonshots
December 30, 2017 - Updated 17 January 2018: I've added shots at the end of the Irish Examiner press cutting of the Hunters Moon shot along...
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Gales, Storms and Hurricanes of 2017
December 29, 2017 - Continuing with my look back of the past year, here are some of my favourite storm shots. The first is from the Great So...
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The Blaskets from Dunmore Head
December 23, 2017 - Today's image from my best of the year series is a failed moon shot from west Kerry, where we took the family holiday in...
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Crookhaven by Moonlight
December 21, 2017 - Starting with my update on the 2016 Winter Solstice yesterday, I'll be posting most days until early in 2018 with some o...
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Winter Solstice at Newgrange - updated
December 20, 2017 - Last year I made two magical visits to Newgrange in brilliant sunshine for the winter solstice on 18 and 22 December. I...
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Red-throated Pipit on Mizen Head - a good shot of an elusive bird
October 14, 2017 - I’m taking a weekend birding and shooting around Crookhaven and Mizen Head in Co. Cork and I was lucky enough to get a g...
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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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Crescent Moon over The Muglins - Calm After Storm Doris
February 24, 2017 - After the drama of yesterday's Storm Doris, I was out early again this morning to capture the waning crescent Moon risin...
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Clearing Up Storm Doris Damage in Shankill & Bray
February 23, 2017 - It was a bit fresh early this morning as Storm Doris passed over Dublin so I headed into Dun Laoghaire hoping to get som...
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Horse Racing at Tinahely Point to Point
February 20, 2017 - Yesterday, Offshoot camera club went to a Point-to-Point in Tinahely in beautiful south Co. Wicklow. It was run by the B...
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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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Stunning Winter Solstice at Newgrange
December 21, 2016 - 19 December 2017: Updated with additional pictures from my second visit to Newgrange on 22 December 2016 and minor edits...
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Red Sky at Whiterock
December 16, 2016 - Landscape shots available here.
Last Sunday morning, I got out for my first landscape shoot in a while and I decided to...
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Surfing the DART at Seapoint
November 22, 2016 - I’ve done a bit of daylight storm chasing in Co. Clare, here and here – and around my local patch in Dun Laoghaire. Howe...
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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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Birding in Barleycove
November 05, 2016 - I was in Cork recently when news broke of a Red-flanked Bluetail on Mizen Head. This Eurasian Taiga relative of the Robi...
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A Rock of a Man at Bulloch Harbour
September 09, 2016 - Contact me for prints.
A dusk shot taken on Offshoot's last summer meeting on 29 August - the topic was silhouettes a...
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Young Cuckoos, Poisonous Moths & Arctic Explorers
July 31, 2016 - UPDATE 2 AUG - lots of info on how Cuckoos can eat toxic moths on Brian Carruthers excellent video clip of the Newcastle...
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Bray Air Display Day 2 - Another 100 Shots
July 27, 2016 - I was very pleased with my shots on the first day of the Bray Air Display - and they generated lots of interest here on...
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100 Shots - Day 1 Bray Air Display - Updated
July 24, 2016 - Yesterday, I posted some tips for shooting the Bray Air Display based on my experience from the 2010 Display and the 201...
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Tips for Shooting the Bray Airshow
July 23, 2016 - Shooting Bray Air Show
With the Bray Air Display on this weekend, I blogged about the best of my shots from Dublin’s Fl...
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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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Sunset at Seapoint after Showers
July 20, 2016 - On Monday 11th June, Offshoot had its second summer outdoor meeting at the Martello Tower at Seapoint, led by Matt O’Bri...
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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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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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Landscapes & Birds in Cork
January 25, 2016 - I was in Cork for the weekend, and with a full Moon early on Sunday, I was looking forward to trying some lunar Leeside...
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Dichotomy on Dawson Street
January 21, 2016 - I was walking along Dawson Street in Dublin one night recently with herself after a concert when we came on this somewha...
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Glaucous-winged Gull in Castletownbere in West Cork
January 03, 2016 - Yesterday afternoon we had the astonishing news of Abi Brewer’s and Ciaran Cronin’s Brown Booby in Owenahincha - within...
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My First Aurora Borealis
December 21, 2015 - At dinner time last night, tweet notifications starting coming thick and fast from Aurora Alert Ireland about Northern L...
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First Twitchable American Bittern in West Cork
November 27, 2015 - UPDATE: In my original post I stated that I believed the American Bittern was an adult but subsequently, there was discu...
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Minty!
October 19, 2015 - Just a quick post prompted by a Facebook memory from October 2012. I was picnicking with the kids at Dublin Zoo when thi...
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Out All Day Birdwatching
September 27, 2015 - Out All Day Birdwatching - from Coney Island by Van Morrison
UPDATE Nov 2016: I just came across this anonymous article...
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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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Conjunction of the Moon, Venus and Mars Over Shankill
February 22, 2015 - Herself arrived home with the shopping last Friday evening and said I should get out and look at the sky. She was right,...
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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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Harvest Moon at the Rock of Dunamase
August 10, 2014 - I haven’t blogged in while due to disgracefully letting life getting in the way of photography! But I have done a few sh...
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Get your own nuts!!
March 07, 2014 - Offshoot had an outing to Altamont Gardens in Co Carlow for their snowdrop week last month - I didn't get any snowdrop s...
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Safe Harbour
February 01, 2014 - I was out and about north of the Liffey today but with limited time for photography except for a quick visit to Howth Ha...
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A Perfect Idea of Freedom and Flight
January 28, 2014 - UPDATE 3 Feb: Shot published in the Cork Examiner on 1 Feb 2013
Followers of my Facebook ramblings will know that I w...
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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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