Day 305

I was a bit disappointed with my results today: I thought I'd nailed a couple of shots, but when I looked at them critically they weren't really at the races. I was pleased with this one though. I used a 4ND filter to allow a slower shutter speed in order to smooth out the water. I decided to change it to monochrome as I felt it worked better: the colour version still felt a little banal.

Day 248

Never mind four seasons in a day, it's four seasons in an hour here today. We've had snow, rain, wind and sun in the last sixty minutes.

Day 131

One of the perks of this job is the occasional opportunity to visit an interesting place that the general public don't get to see. Today I was on the roof of the Four Courts on a recce for a shoot. Grey old day in Dublin, and the dome is covered in scaffolding, but the view is pretty good.

Day 80

OK, I'm a bit bored of big wide landscapes with dramatic clouds. So this'll be the last one for a while!

Day 76

Between Abbeyfeale  and Newcastlewest there's a windfarm, and whilst the access from the main road is restricted, there is a back road that brings you right up amongst the windmills. It was overcast when I got there, and most of the windmills were obscured by clouds, but as I walked back along the track the sun poked through, and there was a big wide landscape to be had. Incidentally, it was not a day for walking through a marsh in leaky Converse Allstars!

Day 75

I quite liked the look of this broken window pane. I pass it most days, but I've found that this blog is forcing me to look at things differently, and so today it was the turn of this glass.

Day 73

I liked these leaves, blowing in a strong wind this afternoon. Slow shutter speed gave a bit of motion blur, and then I just boosted the chroma in post.

Day 66

Low tide in Dingle Bay, and a very eerie fog clinging to everything. I took some shots of the bay, but they came out quite underexposed and lifeless. This bottle neck in the mud however looked quite good. Again, I took it in colour, but converted it to a duotone to give it a richness that was lacking in B&W.

Day 62

Rain rain rain. That's all I seem to see these days. I drove down this side road to catch an image I saw yesterday, and the rain was so hard I couldn't get out of the car. So, instead, I opted for an abstracted view of the road.

Day 61

Looking for a different view of Dingle I ventured down the charmingly named Golf Road. The tide was very high, and this jetty was straining to remain above water. A different view of the town, but sadly with the ubiquitous rain clouds.

Day 60

This falling down house is just outside Dingle on the road to Ventry, and it is currently in use as a cowshed. I love it's decrepit character. I took the shot in colour, then converted it to black and white in Photoshop. Then I converted to a Duotone using black and orange as the colours before converting it back to RGB in order to save it as a JPEG.

Day 59

The weather really is taking the piss now! Try as I might I can't face another rain photo, so where would I rather be? Why inside, with a cup of tea and a good book of course.

P.S. For the benefit of those curious, especially my Russian readers, the book is Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman.

Day 58

The rain is back, but on the plus side it's made the wildflowers nice and photogenic.

Day 57

A couple of false starts this evening, and I was starting to regret my earlier ignoring of cloudscapes and sunsets. And as I was also strating to regret taking the Inch road as I sat behind the world's slowest driver, but as I came around the corner I saw this vista; a welcome opportunity to kill two birds with one stone.

Day 55

Driving to Galway on this beautiful evening, and I just had to pull over to capture this sunset. It took a mile to find the right sort of silhouette, but these trees were worth the wait.

Day 53

I took a trip north again this evening, and discovered a little ruin of a church. The ruin itself was pretty unremarkable, but just off it were these steps down to a well (undoubtedly a holy well). I love the overgrown nature of them, and the texture of the stone, all accentuated by the rather overcast light, the kind of light that makes everything look that bit lusher.

Day 52

Another mixed bag in Dingle, weather wise. As I left work it was raining with blue skies. I headed north from Milltown, and took this: it's the view from An Bothar pub looking towards the Three Sisters. I took it in colour, but converted it to B&W in post.

Day 49

There is an old water pump on the Enniskerry road that I pass regularly. I stopped today, as it always fascinated me, but sadly it is in a very decrepit state. The wood is rotten, the paint is peeling, and it is secured to the wall by a rusty chain. Appropriately it seems to be held together by this nameplate. To be fair it is well over a century old, so all credit to Mr Grace.

Day 48

I've always loved graveyards, and in particular, protestant graveyards. They're always more elaborate, more ornate, more gothic. The graveyard in Enniskerry has quite a mix of old and new, but this angel stood out from quite a way off.

Day 47

I know that you should really use Instagram if you're going to starting posting pictures of your food, but I think that this happy tableau of halloumi warrants a posting here. They don't mind the heat, they're just happy to be here.