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My friend always says – You’d not come to Ireland for weather – but he is wrong.
Most tourists actually do want to experience “true” Ireland and they are never surprised when it rains. It is still summer in Kinsale and we have all-weather-all-the time. I found great combination in my waterproof Fuji XT3 and ability to shoot with film simulations. It just fits moody weather.
So here it is, todays, fresh from camera. Summer in Kinsale.
Analog photography
I love summer! I love sunshine, blue sky and sparkles ✨ on sea surface.
Wherever I am, I carry in me memories of past happy summers on the Adriatic. Even Atlantic Ocean in Ireland looks and feels like Mediterranean on my photographs. It really doesn’t matter if it’s black and white, or colour. Feel it.
PS. New photographs are uploaded to silaart.picfair.com … Don’t forget to check it there from time to time.
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My morning encounter with wild dolphins caused a lot of joy for people who saw my photos.
It was a calm morning, with light swiftly changing from morning blue, over colourful sunrise rainbow, with finish in stormy purples. My plan was to go out to Garrettstown beach and shoot some long exposures. When I spotted a pod of dolphins strolling parallel with the beach and playful jumping out of the water, I started snapping with my camera and caught some nice shots. Cork Beo published an article with my shots. https://www.corkbeo.ie/news/local-news/pictures-capture-dolphins-playing-just-18606865
I also managed to get a nice long exposure with purple clouds.
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Yesterday, we visited West Cork. It is not far from our place, practically at our doorstep. When we started our trip it was raining. Nothing new for Ireland. We also new, in a nick of time the weather will change. So it was. The clouds and mist started lifting and the mood was just right for my kind of photography.
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What one finds to be pleasing, a happy place, other finds disturbing.
Often times I was conversing with people and what to me looked odd even repulsive, others would find it to be enjoyable. We are all different and unique.
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I am a visual artist and in landscape I find all inspiration that I need. It also means that I see connections in nature, for example, Ireland, Scotland and Iceland share connections that are visible in landscape. If I don’t know there are a historical, social and language connection, I would always new just looking at their landscape that there is one.
In my black river, black beaches, black lakes, there is a reflection of past times… I wish to explore it more in the future.
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“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
– Frances Hodgson Burnett
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My exploration of Fujifilm grain ended up in exploration of Irish landscape in a new way. Aesthetically, grain goes very well with fogy, misty Irish mornings. See it for your selfs.
Analog photography
I didn’t play with jpg’s, different set up’s and film simulations, inside my Fuji XT3, as I always used raw. This morning I was browsing through Youtube (during my coffee wake-me-up-hour) and found a video from a guy named Dan Baily and his “Creating custom looks”, so I decided to give it a try. What I created just walking around my neighbourhood I find really amazing! I am hooked. Fujifilm I love what you did with film simulation. It’s like real deal, or even better. There is no digital ugliness, but true grain and I love grain.
Let me show you what I mean. Here are few examples from today (and it’s not a nice day for shooting wild flowers, with strong gusts of wind).
Colour photography
And I am here where I wanted to be – Chrome Infrared Photography. With Fuji X-A3 full spectrum converted camera and Tiffen red 25A. Little bit of tweaking in Affinity Photo and voilà!
