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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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Dragons Thrive Best Here!
April 15, 2019 - "Shall we begin?" (the title & this quote are from Rhaenyra and Daenerys Targaryen - source)
The final series of Game...
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Bray Air Display 2018 - People, Place . . . 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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Fave Christmas 2016 Swim Composites at the Forty Foot
December 26, 2017 - Continuing with my look back over the last year, here are my favourite composites (#2-5) from the 2016 Christmas Swim at...
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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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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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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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SCAN Photography Series
October 01, 2017 - UPDATE 6 November 2017:- I've now completed the third article - this deals with editing your shots on your phone and pro...
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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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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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Shooting the KBC Wedfest in The Chocolate Factory
January 27, 2017 - On Sun 22 January I was asked by Green Shoes Events to shoot the KBC Wedfest 2017 – Ireland’s biggest alternative weddin...
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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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DONATE to Goal Mile in Shanganagh Park
December 27, 2016 - One of Ireland’s best known Christmas charity events, the Goal Mile, was in Shanganagh Park in Shankill this Christmas D...
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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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How I Shoot Ladies Days at Navan Races
December 07, 2016 - On 27 Nov, I was delighted to be back again at Navan Racecourse to photograph their Winter Ladies Day. Shooting these ev...
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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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Winter Fashion at Navan Races – Nothing Else Like It!
November 11, 2016 - I’m delighted to be asked by Navan Racecourse to shoot their upcoming Ladies Day on Sunday November 27 th. As Horse Raci...
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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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Vintage Fashion & Motors Shoot at Shanganagh Castle
August 24, 2016 - Contact me for debs, grads or any other events shots. More pictures from this shoot here.
A while ago, I wanted to “p...
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Spectacular Sunset over Bishopstown
August 10, 2016 - Spectacular " mackerel sky " at sunset over Bishopstown tonight. I took this handheld panorama with my Panasonic LF1 poc...
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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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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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If you go down in the woods today . . . . !!
July 09, 2016 - One evening recently, I was minding my own business taking a quiet walk through a wooded corner of Killiney Hill until I...
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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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People, Punters, Parties, Ponies, Bookies and Jockeys
June 21, 2016 - I recently blogged here & here about my fashion shots from the Summer Ladies day at Navan Racecourse. While the Ladies'...
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Flickr Nostaligia
June 15, 2016 - Flickr was perhaps THE photo app of the noughties - and between 2010 and 2012 my shots regularly appeared in the Explore...
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Racing Fashion at Navan Racecourse
June 14, 2016 - It was great to be asked back again by the team at Navan Racecourse to photograph their summer Ladies Day – A Legacy of...
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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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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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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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Dipping in Duncannon
January 16, 2016 - Several times over the last few months, I’ve written about my successful “twitches” for the American Bittern, for Glauco...
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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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Calm Before the Storm in Cork City
December 29, 2015 - As I write this evening, Storm Frank blusters and drenches outside my mother’s house in Cork. It’s hard to believe it wa...
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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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Boats-n-birds on Dun Laoghaire's East Pier
December 18, 2015 - UPDATE Malcolm McCamley told me how the boat got there:-
"The boat is one of the National Yacht Club's motor launches w...
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Probably the Best Food Market in Ireland!
December 06, 2015 - I’m in Cork for the weekend and I had a few hours free on Saturday morning – but what to shoot during the height of Stor...
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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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Vintage Irene in the Irish Examiner
November 09, 2015 - The autumn Vintage Fair is coming up on Sunday week on 22 November at the Royal Marine Hotel in Dun Laoghaire - and it f...
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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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June Moon over the Bay
June 07, 2015 - The skies cleared for this month's full moon and I got out last Tuesday and Wednesday evenings - part of my long term pr...
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Sarah's Style
May 27, 2015 - To celebrate Sarah’s recently announced engagement, and inspired by her friend Gilli's creation, here’s my collage of my...
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Sabrina's Makeover & Shoot
May 26, 2015 - Vintage Ireland organized a prize for readers of Her.ie for the recent Fashion and Decor Fair - an overnight stay for tw...
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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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When Style Goes Racing Met John Coveney Photography at Punchestown Ladies Day
May 06, 2015 - On Friday 1st May at Ladies Day in Punchestown, I worked with fashion blogger Elaine Bury of Style Goes Racing. The brie...
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People & Fashion at the Spring 2015 Vintage Fair
April 30, 2015 - Last Sunday, I was again commissioned by Vintage Ireland to shoot at the Spring 2015 Vintage Fashion and D ecor Fair at...
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Vintage Racing Fashion in Irish Independent Weekend Magazine
April 25, 2015 - The Vintage Racing Fashion Shoot is in the Irish Indpendent's Weekend Magazine today! See lots more from the shoot here.
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Vintage Race Day Fashion Shoot
April 24, 2015 - A fashion shoot I was commissioned to do a few weeks back to promote the Vintage Fashion & Decor Fair that is taking pla...
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First Flutterby of the Year!
March 23, 2015 - I was in Cabinteely Park yesterday with the gang and I sneaked off for a look at the woods behind the big house. A butte...
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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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Four Lights and a Texter
March 13, 2015 - There was a full moon last week and with a forecast of reasonably clear skies I was hopeful that I could add to my lunar...
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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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Into the Deep - Pelagic Birds & Cetaceans off Co. Mayo
August 13, 2014 - For Irish birders, a “ pelagic ” is a chance to get up close views and shots of seabirds that they normally see distantl...
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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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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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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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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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