Ireland's Wild and Rugged Coastline
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The wild, stormy and rugged coast of Ireland varies from sandy beaches to rocky headlands.
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Field notes, location guides, and photography stories from across Ireland.
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The Mighty Scots Pine, Pine Island Connemara
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It's a tree that Monty Python rightly described as the Mighty Scots Pine in their famous Lumberjack Song performed by Michael Palin.
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It's All About the Journey, Sometimes the Journey is as Scenic as the Destination
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Join me on a photography tour in Ireland's west, Dublin, Antrim Coast or anywhere in Ireland - you decide or ask me to suggest something that fits in with your travel plans.
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Sunset as Storm Gerrit Races Across Ireland Ahead of Storm Henk
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Here, a flooded landscape with water levels rising rapidly, covering ground passable just the day before as sunset approaches along with crepuscular rays in the colourful but ominous sky.
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Killiney Bay, Ireland
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Here in this panorama, the Wicklow Mountains can be seen in the background to the right with the peaks of both the Great and Little Sugarloaf before the mass of Bray Head on the left.
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Moody and mysterious, the coast of Ireland at dusk
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The coastline of Ireland comes in many different forms - the sandy beaches with turquoise waters, rocky headlands and coves, pebbles and stones. All of these elements make up the ever changing and ever beautiful coast...
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Kylemore Abbey, Connemara
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After my post yesterday showing the beauty of the lake and mountain on which Kylemore Abbey is situated here is a more focused image of the building, once the home of a wealthy London Doctor called Mitchell Henry.
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More Autumn Scenes from Ireland
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And here we have some more colour from the uplands of Ireland in Autumn.
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Kylemore Abbey Reflections
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One of Ireland's most famous buildings, Kylemore Abbey is situated in a scenic position at the foot of a mountain surrounded by lakes.
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More Locations Associated with Saint Patrick in Ireland
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I have written about Northern Ireland's locations associated with Saint Patrick in this post and since it is Ireland's national saint's day once again, that's the 17th March for those of you who don't know, why not show...
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Late Evening Winter Sun and Misty Mountain Vistas
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Ireland makes for a fantastic photographic destination all year round. In the winter as you might not have imagined the landscape is not covered in snow although soft, white landscapes do occur - most notably in...
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Cherry Tree Blossom, National Tree Week
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Still, the ornamental cherries provide plenty of attraction in spring typically in urban areas.
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Photography in Stormy Weather, Ireland
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Sometimes it is easy to think of landscape photography in terms of the right light, the golden raking sunshine illuminating the countryside in front of the lens.
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Navan Fort - Emain Macha, Armagh - Ancient Capital of Ulster
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It's a decent walk up to the high mound from the car park and on the morning that I took this image it was cold, the fog that sometimes covers the central plain of Ulster was slowly lifting as the sun rose in the sky;...
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In Defence of Sunrises and Sunsets in Landscape Photography
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Landscape photography is more than just photographing sunsets and sunrises, the crepuscular edges of the day when light is low and golden.
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