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Acceptance in 154th Edinburgh International Exhibition of Photography 2016
In order to achieve my next FIAP distinction – the EFIAP, I’ve started entering Print Salons internationally to achieve the required 25 print acceptances criteria for EFIAP. My first attempt was the prestigious Edinburgh Exhibition which receives over 3000 entries each year and only exhibits 202 prints. This year my work “Raphaella on Point” was
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Olympus OM-D EM5 Mark II Review
Last April I borrowed a friends Olympus EM5 MII to see if mirror-less held any sway with me for my future photography needs. I took the camera to Stanford University grounds for a days trial. This report is not a detailed technical review of this kit, more my experience as a 10 year DSLR only
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The road to gold…
It’s been a while since I won a medal in Celbridge Camera Club league competition. In fact it’s been seven years! My last success in the league competitions was as novice when I won Novice Photographer of the Year, 2009. Since then I’ve had some montly placings, but not enough consistency in my work to
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AFIAP distinction awarded
I’m delighted to have received my AFIAP distinction today. The first leg of the FIAP journey now complete. The images I submitted (18 in total) are shown here:
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Another Salon Gold Medal
NSAPK CIRCUIT 2016 2 Country Serbia – Montenegro 4 Salons Novi Sad – Aleksinac – Podgorica – Kotor Dark Beauty Bink made DPA Gold Medal this week in Monochrome section of Podgorica salon. In addition, I received a total of 33 acceptances out of a possible 48 for the entire circuit. I haven’t been entering
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Easter Monday 2016
This morning my wife Liz was pouring over maps trying to figure out how to best get to Ashbourne and the Rath monument for todays commemoration. I’ve never understood this kind of stress. I practice positive parking, so unless you do too, you will perhaps not realise that any thoughts about “How” to find the
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Donabate 2016
Today all over Ireland people marked the centenary of the 1916 rebellion in public and personal ways. Some of the images I recorded today are in this gallery. Many locals dressed in uniform or costume remembering relatives locally involved in 1916. The image below was one of my favuorite portraits of the day. It saddens
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Mayo Weekend – Part II
Up at 6am. Look out the window, cloud, and more cloud. Brain might be slow, but it doesn’t take long to decide to go back to bed! When I finally get up there is still blanket cloud cover but a glimmer of light on the horizon and the forecast for sunny spells motivates me to
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Mayo Weekend – Part I
This weekend I headed west for some landscape photography on the south shore of Lough Mask near Clonbur, straddling the Mayo / Galway boarder. I arrived late Saturday afternoon in time for a sunset shoot. I started with some shots of my favourite submerged tree on the lake which I had not captured in this
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Revisiting the landscape
Never delete images! The above image was taken in 2008, I’m only got to post process it yesterday! Back then I would not have used the same techniques and would not have been as happy with the results. It’s not my favourite image from then, but others seems to like it a lot! I’ve