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  • Autumn in Winter

    Autumn in Winter

    It seems to me autumn leaves fell very late this year. Perhaps the mild season is part of a longer growing season and later falls of leaves each year due to climate change. I visited Cloughlea(gh) [spelling varies] woods in Co. Wicklow this weekend and since I had company and an impatient golden retriever with…

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  • A Beautiful Light

    A Beautiful Light

    After 5 years of messaging back and forth I finally got to work with Stephanie Dubois on a remote shoot last February. Such a beautiful person to know and work with. R.I.P. Stephanie.

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  • A new dawn

    A new dawn

    We could all do with some hope around now. I was fortunate enough this weekend to have the opportunity to assist my son to help document his final year art project. So we headed across lough mask in kayaks, pre dawn yesterday morning to film and capure an amazing scene. I was just documenting the…

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  • EFIAP Silver Distinction

    EFIAP Silver Distinction

    This week I received news I achieved the EFIAP Silver distinction for works I have entered mostly in the past year to international photographic salons. I’m wondering now would I have put in the work to achieve this had it not been for the confinement of Covid-19. I had previously received my EFIAP Bronze in…

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  • Portrait Masters Awards

    Portrait Masters Awards

    This week I received the results of my first ever submission to the Sue Bryce Education – Portrait Masters competition for January 2021. Before I get to my results, a word about why I felt I should pursue yet another international awards and distinction journey. I have been entering national and international photographic competitions since…

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  • 6th  Balkan Exhibition 2021 results

    6th Balkan Exhibition 2021 results

    I received results today for the last salon entered for my EFIAP Silver journey – the 6th Balkan Exhibition 2021 circuit for Serbia, Cyprus, and Romania. I received 5 awards, and 41 out of a possible 64 acceptances, with 14 of my 16 images being accepted. So the last task for my EFIAP Silver is…

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  • Meeting the EFIAP/silver criteria…

    Meeting the EFIAP/silver criteria…

    So I’m thinking tonight how many personal and sometimes professional achievements happen quietly and unnoticed. I received salon results today for the BOKA BAY 20201 Montenegro and Serbia circuit salon with a bunch of new images I hastily put together to hopefully close the gap for the required number of new accepted works for the…

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  • 9th Miroc Exhibition Circuit results

    9th Miroc Exhibition Circuit results

    So I’m hopefully on the home stretch for my submission to FIAP for the EFIAP Silver distinction. I was 13 new image acceptances short of the required 50 new works. That is, until today, when I received the results of the latest salon circuit for Serbia, Russia, South Africa, and Norway. I received acceptances for…

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  • Back to Norway…

    Back to Norway…

    Mischkah and I managed to arrange our first remote shoot of 2021 in her new Norwegian location. Here are some of the images from our two hour session. We split the time with studio lights and natural light and two different spaces. Very pleased with what we produced in such a short space of time.…

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  • A snowy park

    A snowy park

    An extra fall of snow this morning called me out for a second walk in our local park this morning. May be the last chance to capture a winter scene before the sprint flowers make their presence felt. My first thought was to head to the deer paddock and see if the stag had some…

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