Camera Club – Challenge Cup

Last night was the highly anticipated Challenge night in the Limerick Camera Club. Whereas most competition nights have an open theme, on challenge night every member must photograph their interpretation of the challenge subjects. I enjoy coming up with concepts and then figuring out how to make them a reality so I love the challenge…

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What I’ve been up to in March

After a busy February, March got off to a great start when I received another Gold award from the Society of Wedding & Portrait Photography for the above image. Nice! So far this year there were only 4 Gold awards given to Irish photographers and I’ve gotten two of them! Sweet!

Climbing Mullaghmore

Since I moved to Clare a few years back I still haven’t visited many of the places that local people might have grown tired of. In fact, there are many places that I am not even aware of yet. Mullaghmore was one such place. Sure, I’d seen the mountain as a backdrop in photographs but…

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Baby Thank You Cards

They say that you should never work with children or animals but how could I resist photographing Baby Gavin for his Thank You cards?! He was good enough to make some time in his sleeping schedule for me and he was as good as gold for the entire time – he even

Carrauntoohil Climb

The cross above marks the summit of Carrauntoohil, Ireland’s highest mountain. On Saturday morning a gang of us set off from Cronin’s Yard at the base of the mountain with this cross as our destination. Our spirits were high and so were the clouds surrounding the mountains! Undeterred we ventured on making our way up…

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Time for a change

My nephew is working on filling out his CAO form this week. It’s hard to believe that it’s 15 years since I was flicking through college prospectuses (prospecti?) trying to narrow down my choice. I liked art, but I wasn’t very good at it. There were people in my art class that were incredibly talented…

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