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Tuesday, 29 October 2024 19:43
The Green Road, Weaving Through the Irish Landscape
Written by Darren McLoughlin
The green roads or lanes of Ireland are impressive but can often be quite hard to find. They are unlike other small country roads in Ireland, they don't have a metalled surface, they weave between fields through the Irish landscape but often have become disused or paved over. These green roads often would have been routes between townlands, forming part…
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Saturday, 12 October 2024 01:01
Aurora Borealis, Northern Lights Over Ireland With Reflections
Written by Darren McLoughlin
The year 2024 has certainly blessed us with plenty of opportunity to photograph the Northern Lights or aurora borealis here in Ireland. Last night's amazing display coincided with my visit to a calm west of Ireland lake, photographing throughout the evening in different directions to make the most of the ever-changing celestial light show that is the aurora. I wasn't…
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Sunday, 22 September 2024 00:02
Calm Evening and Sun Rays at Sunset on the Atlantic
Written by Darren McLoughlin
A calm evening close to sunset with cloud obscuring the best of the western sky over the edge of Ireland. Yet it's still a scenic view as a few breaks in the cloud allows the orange-red sun rays through to briefly illuminate the surface of the Atlantic Ocean. Panoramic Ireland's photography tours and workshops are running all through autumn, winter…
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Wednesday, 28 August 2024 21:52
Cloud Fills the Valley, Photographing Landscapes in the West of Ireland
Written by Darren McLoughlin
Morning sunlight somewhere behind the clouds in the west of Ireland. Before the heat of the day, low cloud and fog sit in the valley in front of the heather-clad mountains. Photography in Ireland is always a mystery, the weather forecast may say good weather or bad weather but the day, and a journey through the countryside, often reveals a…
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A bright sunset behind deep cloud over the Atlantic fades to blue as night sets in on Ireland's west coast, the Wild Atlantic Way. And it was a wild night on the Atlantic with the wind blowing, clouds forming and the cold spread of night after a long day of photography of Ireland's wild landscapes. This was not a disappointing…
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Wednesday, 07 August 2024 01:06
Wisping Clouds and Golden Sunlight - Irish Landscape Photography
Written by Darren McLoughlin
In the depths of the Irish countryside, the sun rises slowly illuminating the rugged, mountainous countryside. Clouds lift off the valley floor, wisping along the steep slope of the mountains as the early morning sunlight highlight the quartzite rocks. Such scenes make some of my favourite landscape photography images. Empty of people, early in the day or late in the…
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Friday, 19 July 2024 00:21
Razorbill Pair, Alca torda, Black, White and Yellow - Isle of Mull, Scotland
Written by Darren McLoughlin
The razorbill is a native seabird to Ireland and to Scotland which is where this image is from, over on Mull just up the coast from my home county of Antrim right in the north east corner of Ireland. Related to the puffin, the razorbill can often be seen nesting and breeding in colonies that include puffins, as well as…
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Sunday, 28 April 2024 22:24
People of Dublin as Pints of Guinness, Street Photography in Ireland
Written by Darren McLoughlin
Dublin is a good place for street photography, full of character in its people and its buildings. Often in the streetscape itself although some difficulty exists throughout much of the city centre with visual intrusions. This scene is a good example, a classic image of a cobbled street filled with old buildings and the famous Guinness gatebeing passed by two…
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Monday, 22 April 2024 22:04
Double Rainbow over Doe Castle and Sheephaven Bay, County Donegal, Ireland
Written by Darren McLoughlin
Intense double rainbow arcing over Doe Castle and the sands of Sheephaven Bay in Donegal on Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way. Doe Castle dates to the 1420s and was home of the McSweeneys, a clan originally from Scotland who came to Ireland as mercenary fighters known as gallowglasses. The name Doe Castle is an anglicisation of Caisleán na dTuath which means…
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Tuesday, 05 March 2024 23:40
Snowdrops (Galanthus Nivalis / Pluirin Sneachta) Naturalised in the Spring Woodland, Ireland
Written by Darren McLoughlin
January and February are months that see the beginning of colour in the Irish countryside, in gardens and in hedgerows but also in woodlands. Here, a little patch of fresh green and white from snowdrops Galanthus nivalis known as Plúirín sneachta in Irish. As I spent the first weeks of 2024 photographing Atlantic rainforest in the west of Ireland, natural…
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Thursday, 08 February 2024 16:22
Pine Island, Connemara or Somewhere Tropical?
Written by Darren McLoughlin
It was a warm evening in the west of Ireland last summer when we stopped to photograph at the famous Pine Island in Connemara, the western part of Galway. There wasn't much sunlight left as clouds rolled in for a wet and windy finish to the day but the calm conditions we encountered here made the day's photography more than…
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Friday, 05 January 2024 23:39
Post-Sunset Sky in the West of Ireland, Blue Hour
Written by Darren McLoughlin
Peace descended over the west of Ireland at the end of yet another fine January day. There was no direct sunset, instead a bank of cloud moved in and the sun slipped in and out of the grey band stretched across the sky, crepuscular rays emanating in many directions for 30 seconds or so at a time. Ducks quacked, geese…
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Tuesday, 02 January 2024 23:48
Welcome to 2024, Sunset in the West of Ireland
Written by Darren McLoughlin
It's no secret that the West of Ireland is one of Panoramic Ireland's favourite places. Join me in 2024 to photograph in the beautiful scenic surroundings of Galway, Mayo, Sligo and Donegal. Here, the first sunset of 2024 in the west as the sun heads for the horizon. We've had the solstice on December 22nd, 2023 and around now, early…
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Wicklow is not short of scenic locations for photography and one of the most scenic of them all is Ballinastoe Woods. Here, a boardwalk ascends through the forest, part of a long walking route through the mountains and Irish countryside. It's easy to imagine this place as enchanted, inhabited perhaps by a púca, one of the mythological creatures in Irish…
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