Journal
Field notes, location guides, and photography stories from across Ireland.
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Photography, Photoshop and Post-processing
You've taken a few photos on your phone and want to send them to friends and family — but attaching more than half a dozen at original size can push your email over the 20MB limit many servers enforce. Here's a quick...
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The Irish bluebell, Hyacinthoides non-scripta, is found growing wild throughout the Irish countryside in April and May, along road sides in hedgerows, in forests and anywhere with a bit of shade.
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With 80,000 attendees or Picnickers, there has never been a larger edition of Ireland's largest music and arts festival.
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The design might look the same as before but there are some noticable differences and everything should work that bit faster as well.
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Now let's say you're not a Photoshop user but you do use Lightroom, you also use a non-Adobe photo editing application such as Affinity Photo.
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I have been to Ess na Crub and Ess na Larach numerous times over the autumn, winter and spring 2024/2025.
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One night you might hear a haunting violin in a candlelit chapel. The next, you could be watching world-class theatre under the stars or discovering a jazz trio tucked away in a hidden courtyard. Everywhere you turn,...
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In the image above, Samson is seen on the left and Goliath on the right, indeed same for the image below where you can see the height differential in the two structures.
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But it does have useful functionality, and the new Quick Actions will come in handy at times.
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Trotternish comes from Norse Tròndairnis; nish as a placename ending means ness, or headland and so Thrond’s Headland is the translation.
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The blackbird was seen as a symbol of good luck in Ireland, especially in pairs or when it enters a house.
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There's Murder on the Dancefloor as Sophie Ellis-Bextor debuts at Ireland's largest music festival, Electric Picnic 2024.
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**Update** This issue should have been fixed by now, if you have updated to the latest versions of Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop and you can return to editing in Photoshop rather than Photoshop (Beta) by changing back...
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There is a special serenity to the morning, an ephemeral liminality as the short-lived golden light moves into bright daylight.
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Under sail this is one of the most impressive of the touring training ships, seen here with dozens of cadets working the rigging high on the ship's masts as it leaves the safety of Dublin's River Liffey for the Irish...
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