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Ten years in Ireland in Photography
On Valentine’s Day ten years ago, my husband brought me to Ireland
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Recap 2024 – The Year in Photography
We are in the other half of December and 2024 is slowly fading away. Perfect time for some light rumination through past images.
So, what marked my 2024 in just a few photographs?
I’ll start with Irish storms. Survived and bore some fruit in the midst of it. We are in another Winter again going through rough Irish weather. Keeping spirits up and continuing to photograph.
We did a bit of flying with our drones. Some very nice movies are available on my Youtube page, if you didn’t notice this new venture already. Then go and check it out here
I so loved the one from the Old Head and finally (after three attempts in the past) managed to take very good panoramic image from Galley Head.
Then we traveled. We drove from Ireland all the way across Europe, with some stops in different places, to Croatia. As on our travels, I’m so focused on filming videos, my calm, intentional photography is on the sidelines. That doesn’t mean I didn’t take quite a few photographs, just it felt like “not enough time” to be completely satisfied with them.
Arriving to Zadar and spending summer there is always special. In the future, there will be much more photography and videography from Croatia.
And we are back in Kinsale and Cork, Ireland.
Bye, bye 2024! Happy New Year of 2025!
With one of my street photographs from Cork. The best photobomb lol!!!
Have a lovely holidays 🙂
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ZADAR Summer travel 2024
It’s been almost a year since I posted something on this blog. I am sorry for not talk to you sooner. It is been a busy period for me, a lot of filming and video editing and a lot of travel. Some of my videos are available on YouTube page https://www.youtube.com/@silaart777.
Also, my photography turned a new corner. For years my motivation for taking photographs was mainly triggered by landscape, while now it is human interaction in that space. I hate definitions and labels, but I guess human brain is looking for something tangible to understand what it sees. If I need to declare it, I would say my work now is street/travel/documentary, though it is still me trying to understand world around me.
This is a little portfolio just from Zadar, Croatia. I used three or four cameras, I can’t even remember. My trusted Fuji Xt3, then I bought this little Panasonic point and shoot to cary in pocket, I used Yashica 124g mat with expired film and occasionally iPhone 14pro (as that was the only camera at hand).
Enjoy in the gallery portfolio I prepared for you 🙂
Let me know in comments how do you like it.
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Streets Around The Globe – Retrospective
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
The end of the year and the beginning of new one is a perfect time to do some soul searching, for a photographer that means browsing through old photographs collection.
In the last two years we were traveling all over Europe with a quick jump to the USA. I was filming, photographing, snapping shots with every possible device available.
This is my choice for you today. Browse through the gallery and enjoy.
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Paris France in the 80′
I know it was the 80s, but no exact year. I was in high school and working during summer. That much I do remember. I managed to save enough to go to Paris on my own.
Recently, I started scanning all my old photographs and found these from Paris. I started wondering if there in them is a trace of my future passion for photography. It was the 80s, everything is taken on film. On one of the pictures you can see me and across my body is a leather bag for my fathers Kodak. That was my camera. Kodak Retina II (a or c). I didn’t have any photographic school, no teaching about framing the scene or any other ideas on street photography.
Snapshots from the past
No AI, no digital improvement, not even dust clean up. Just scan of an old photograph that was lying on the attic for a long time and not in very good conditions.
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Sunrise high in the clouds
Surrounded with high Alpine peaks in South Tyrol, Italy and in the middle of season change (rain started when we arrived), I thought there will not be much of my photography. As usual, I walk up early, before sunrise and went for a walk. Sure enough, the dramatic clouds started to rise above mountain peaks, but then sun peaked through. In next few moments I’ve got my photographs.
I love to point my camera right into the eye. I know you’re not suppose to, but this is why I take this picture, because of that eye.
Sun and light is fascinating. And the way it blinds spectators when it appears behind the ridge, is the way I want to present it in photography. Again, like sunrise on the ocean , it appearance puts everything in rich dark colours.
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Fascination with sunrises
We returned from yet another “tour the Europe” and I was thinking how to start with my new posts, what is or are photographs who resonated in me the most from this trip?
And the answer is – Nature. Where people interact with nature or just plane and simple nature.
So, I am starting with
THE SUN
At the end of the journey, on our way back we took a ferry from France to Ireland. It was an overnight ferry and I woke up early, before the sunrise and went on a deck.
This pale palette of colours where light is just breaking in, the calm ocean and white/pink foam left behind our ferry and first birds of the morning flying low. Stunning.
No wonder we, as we people, are so preoccupied with sun and light.
That hour before sunrise is magical. When you are on a ship that moves fast, sky and colours changes even faster.
A fishing boat in the distance. Slowly the world is waking up. Quietness of dawn is broken.
In the dramatic shift the colours of the sky are saturated. Deep blue/purple ocean and orange/red sky above. The stage is set for the main star.
And here it is. An eye on the horizon. At first it is a tiny blip on the sky. Why would anyone fuss about it?!
But then this bright circle gets bigger and changes everything around it. Colours are bold, deep. Ocean is like dark, impenetrable surface. And sky is burning.
Maybe this is the reason why so many people day after day, stand in awe at sunrise. The inevitable change. When light comes, everything changes. There is a comfort in knowing it will happen again and again, in this circle of life. Fascination of blinding light. For a second it is like nothing else exist a part from this giant ball of fire that rises on horizon and puts everything else in shadows.
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Winter is finally over
Even though Met Eireann announced another cold spell over Ireland, but days a longer and I can managed to squeeze few hours in a week to photograph (meaning there is somewhat good weather conditions). Long Irish winters are harder and harder to endure.
So, here are some beautiful nature photographs in long exposure.
West Cork Ireland is such a beautiful place when there is light.
Dramatic sky or wind chasing clouds, clear blue sky on a sunny day, or rainbows from passing showers, all is very beautiful. Trouble is gloomy, pressed down greyness without end, and very little light.
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Check last years photographs February 2022
Hipstamatic camera used like in previous 
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Slow Shutter and iPhone
How to take long exposure shots with an iPhone?
There are many Apps that create long exposure with iPhone and this is not a review post. I chose one – Slow Shutter, paid for it and I am very happy to shot with it.
Just a quick walk around town at dawn (of course) and this is it, these are the pictures.
Check the same location with Histamatic Instant here
Whether in low light, long exposure or motion blur, the App gives me possibilities to manually adjust ISO, time and light sensitivity.
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