Took these on the top of Bray Head on a Sunny Sunday at sun set. Had hoped from a bit more drama in the sky but all things considered I’m happy with them. I had also wanted to try stitching several HDR images together. Need more practice on this. The Panorama here looks OK and it’s definitely large enough at 14,380 pixels wide! But there’s some noise creeping in on some of the darker areas. This is more to do with the HDR conversion than anything.

There’s also a couple in from last weekend in Glendalough.

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I finally managed to get out the door with my camera during this amazing weather. Had an idea that the Grand Canal might look great with the low lying snow clouds creating an amazing ambient light. The exposures were long, 30 seconds and more as I was shooting at 100 iso. Hopefully I’ll get more before it all disappears.

Only 3 days left! Looks like all will be set for my first exhibition taking place in Lahinch Art Gallery, Main Street, Lahinch Co. Clare. Hopefully it will go OK and i’ll be able to make up SOME of the cost of putting this on

Prints range in size from A3 420mm (width) x whatever height to A1 800mm width. All photos are available in multiple sizes by order and all photos are limited edition out of 50.

I have received fantastic help from people like Carmel & Rosie Kenny, owners of Kenny’s Art Gallery, Michael Vaughan proprietor of Vaughan Lodge, Lahinch and Patrick Egan of Egan’s Pub, Liscannor. I’d also like to mention my excellent framer, Stephen Swail who got me out of a last minute bind! Wicklow Glass & Glazing. Also, a special thanks goes to Gerry Collison, Editor of the Clare People and last but not least, Martina Costello.

Lets hope I actually sell some now!

After several phone calls from a friend letting me know he was taking off from the top of Bray head in a Para Glider, yesterday I got a chance to head up there with my daughter. I twas a beautiful evening and she really enjoyed the hike up. All of these were taken with my amazing 5dMkII using the only lens I brought 70-200mm F4 L.

Looks like my first photo exhibition will go ahead as planned kicking off on the August Bank Holiday Weekend on Saturday 31st July. All the the photos shown will be based on my County Clare walkabouts. Here are a few of the images that may (or may not) be shown.

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Finally got to do a bit of a walkabout today with the new camera. Interesting test for it as the light was pretty bad. I of course used a tripod and exposures were bracketed. Most were shot at ISO100 f22 slower than a second.

the first 2 were post processed in Lightroom from a straight shot, the next was merged as a HDR image in photomatix then touched up in lightroom.