Category: Photography
Derreenataggart Stone Circle
Derreenataggart Stone Circle (also known as Derrintaggart) is situated on private land and is about 2km from Castletownbere on the Beara Peninsula.
As you can probably see, it was a fairly wet day when we were there. The rain stopped just long enough for Ally and I to get out of the car, take some photos, and then race each other back to the car when it started to lash again.
Derreenataggart Stone Circle is estimated to be about 3,000 years old and was probably constructed as a cermonial or ritual site.
St. Finbarr’s Oratory, Gougane Barra
This is somewhere I’ve always wanted to visit. I got the opportunity, finally, while on holiday in West Cork last weekend. It’s a really beautiful place. There was a wedding taking place while I was there (it’s a very popular place for small intimate weddings), and, as there were photographs being taken, I didn’t venture onto the island.
There’s a hotel across the lake from the church as well as a pub/café and shop. Fishing licenses can be purchased at the shop and there were a few people fishing down at the lake. There are some lovely walks around the forest park so it’s a really nice place to while away a few hours.
Wexford Strawberries – Boro Valley Fruit Farm
Ally and I got the opportunity to see the inner workings of a real Wexford Strawberry farm at the weekend, thanks to Photowalk.ie and Boro Valley Fruit Farm.
On Saturday several members of Photowalk.ie met up at Boro Valley Fruit Farm where we were made feel at home by Murt Murphy before being taken on our ‘fruitful’ journey.
An amazing journey it was too!
There were more strawberries than I’ve ever seen.
Huge polytunnels, and a state of the art greenhouse with a computer controlled heating and ventilating system, housed long rows of strawberries.
These well looked after berries are grown in long containers suspended at chest height.
Rows and rows of ‘em!
Murt gave us a complete rundown of the lifecycle of the strawberry, from planting to picking. I never realised there was so much involved in looking after strawberries, and I pity the five strawberry … Read More »
Time to grab the camera….
….and shoot everything that moves!
This being the first weekend that I’ve had off in what seems like FOREVER, I’m going to dust the camera off and bring it on a roadtrip!
I started by giving it a practise run in the back garden this evening. Poor starlings….
I didn’t spend too long annoying them as they seemed to be quite anxious and reluctant to return to the nest while I was around.
I’ll give them a break for a while and take photos of this little guy instead. He arrived in the post for me today, all the way from Japan!
St. Patrick’s Well Marlfield
I went on a field trip with Clonmel Camera Club last Monday to St. Patrick’s Well in Marlfield. This was a trip with a difference as it was at night and we experimented with lighting effects.
On my wish list now: A decent tripod and a flash.
The Spider and the Fly
Spider and fly, originally uploaded by QueenOfPots.
Once upon a time, late one morning (*this* morning, to be precise), I was sitting at the table in the kitchen, still in my dressing gown and slippers, my hair askew (because I’d been up late the night before), with no idea that I was about to type what could possibly be the longest sentence in the world (with the most parenthesis), when I happened to throw my eyes (not literally) in the direction of the back door, and spied a fly crashlanding into a web and struggling to get back out again.
Knowing that a spider was about to appear from somewhere, I hastily grabbed my camera….which was exactly where it should be…somewhere in the cluttered sitting room…hiding…in a safe place…and within a matter of….several seconds….was outside, lens aimed at web, snapping away.
And everyone … Read More »
