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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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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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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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Shankill Smartphoneography
October 28, 2017 - Friday was a fab late autumn day in Shankill but I was running around doing bits and pieces with no time for shooting...
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Successful Journey to Hell & Back for my A Distinction
September 23, 2017 - Since 2014 I’ve been shooting thousands of images at the Hell and Back endurance events at the Killruddery Estate in Co.
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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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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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Easter 1916 Centenary
March 28, 2016 - We headed into town yesterday to catch the Defence and Emergency Services parade to commemorate the 1916 Rising. I got t...
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Best Weekend for Irish Rare Birds Ever - 12-13 October 1985!
October 13, 2015 - I’m Just Going to Check this Garden for an American Redstart... and I May be Some Time!
Update 12 Sep 2017
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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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Linnet at Shanaganagh Park in Shankill
February 16, 2015 - The South Dublin Branch of BirdWatch Ireland have recently put up feeders in Shanganagh Park, near where I live in Shank...
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Attack of the Giant Crocuses
February 14, 2015 - Just a quick post for the day that's in it - crocuses on the green in my estate. I took this one day last February with...
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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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In the Irish Photographic Federation Spotlight
January 27, 2015 - My Profile in the current Newsletter of the Irish Photographic Federation
"In the Spotlight: John Coveney LIPF Q: Which...
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Calendar Shoot!
December 16, 2014 - Well it’s been four months since my last post – clearly my photography has gone to hell in a handcart since then. I won’...
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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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Spring Frost in the Silvermines Mountains on TV!
April 27, 2014 - Updated - with video clip - below.
My entry for Met Eireann's spring weather photo contest got to the final and will be...
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Black Swan
April 25, 2014 - Following on the Indo shoot in advance of the recent Vintage Fair in Dun Laoghaire, I shot the Fair itself a few weeks b...
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Vintage Hustle for an Audience of 531,000!
March 29, 2014 - I’ve been shooting for Joan Murray at the Vintage Fashion & Decor Fairs in Dun Laoghaire for the past few years. The nex...
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Offshoot at Glendalough with Peter Gordon
March 02, 2014 - Last Saturday, Offshoot organized a members’ workshop at Glendalough with renowned landscape photographer Peter Gordon w...
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Faces of Dublin's Chinese New Year
February 05, 2014 - I went into Temple Bar in Dublin City Centre with the family last Sunday to see the Chinese New Year festival and the sl...
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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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Legends of the Falls
January 31, 2014 - Our route on our west Clare storm chase last Sunday took us through Ennistimon or Ennistymon as it is often spelled. Giv...
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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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Happy Christmas
December 24, 2013 - This shot was taken three years ago this evening towards the end of the big snow of December 2010. As it was forecast to...
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Going Belle For Leather at the Dublin Roller Derby
December 23, 2013 - On 14 th December, the Arena in Tallaght was the venue for a Roller Derby between the Dublin Roller Derby – formerly Dub...
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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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