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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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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.
As always, my prints available here
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.
As always, love to see you on Insta
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Fun with my new iPhone App
Even though I have an iPhone for ages and it’s almost time to replace it with a newer model, I acquired to photography apps just recently. Photographers and cameras, eh?! 🙂
It’s like having 6 different cameras with me, not counting regular iPhone camera.
So, even before dawn I was out in town playing with my new toys.
Camera that took photos I am sharing in this post was Hipstamatic Instant.
Enjoy.
First of all, in post all photos are resized to take less space on my storage. Second of all, I love analog look lol, and with small mobile phone now I can have it both.
Freedom to snap without worrying about the cost of one shot (especially with Instax).
More to come…
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Film Photography while traveling
My trusty Yashica Mat 124g and Kodak Portrait 400 rolls I had with me.
Only two rolls used
The problem with traveling like this (fast) with only short overnight stops and limited time for exploring, it didn’t feel right for me to use my analog camera.
I love to take time with my films and observe soaking in the atmosphere of the place. Driving 2500 km in 4-5 days means it’s more first impressions than expressing my inner feelings about the place. I did, however, manage to shoot two rolls, with two last frames taken back in Cork. I planned to use at least 10 rolls on this journey, not happening.
Here they are, the selected ones.
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Irish Weather
A little digression from our journey through Europe stories.
Ireland jumps in forcefully like its storms
Since our return weather was not kind to me. I mean, it’s typical Irish weather, lots of Atlantic storms, with rain, grey dark days, occasional sun bursts through thick clouds. Damp, damp, damp.
My body needed lots of time to adapt back (as I have IBS).
After two weeks of rain, flooding, high tide and winds combo, today is, what they call it – blustery showers day (rough, windy, and often rainy, with the wind often changing in strength or direction) – and I love every bit of it!
It’s the type of day where you’ll find rainbows and huge gigantic clouds passing the giganormous sky. If you’ve never been to Ireland, the sky is huge in Ireland. We’ve traveled and never the sky is so big like here or so dynamic like here.
It also means that wind is strong and it can rip your camera out of your hands and to have a steady shot it needs skill and experience. My IBS is, strangely enough, pretty happy in this rough conditions. Only when sky closes in, when it’s like under the lid, humid, dark, warm (for Ireland warm) when you can feel the air pressure on your head, shoulders, on your chest, then I struggle and my body disobeys me.
I’ve tried to represent those intense weather conditions in my photographs and it is like the essence eludes me. I am pleased with my photographs, but I still want to achieve that one shot that will encompass all of it. That might be good, as it gives me the motivation to go and try again and again.
One of the “moody” posts from the past here
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New perspectives or new set of eyes
Winter in some causes irritation, restlessness that they can’t pinpoint to anything specific. It is the bad weather syndrome. We are less able to change locations during bad weather. COVID-19 is like a bad weather period as restrained us to stay in one location for way to long.
Change of perspective in a different way
I love to change the way I create, not keeping it constantly same-all-sam-all. That way I don’t even need to travel, as my every day landscape becomes new and different.
Infrareds, that I’ve recently returned to, with practice become more clear. They are now statements on their own. When I started with the cheap, adapted full spectrum camera that I bought on Ebay, it was mainly to have fun and change my perspective. These days my infrareds are art on its own.
The best for the last. I love this one so much, and I don’t want to ruin it by explaining.
Life is still beautiful.
Don’t forget to check my older Infrareds
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Cork City Streets at Night
Lights, lots of it
It was a crisp evening, not more than 5.30 pm. Sunset is now days at 4.30pm. Short winter days and long, long nights. Cork City was dressed in shadows with mellow yellow street lamps. Only bright white beams streaming through streets from all kinds of vehicles. Stars in the sky and on the streets.
It was hard to pick just one photograph from this location, South Gate Bridge, as they all have something that is worthy of keeping. This one intrigued me as all the lights were greenish. I think the colour represents cold winter night well. Everything was in movement, except two deliver guys on bikes. Kinda ironic.
Bridges are so Cork. River Lee meanders among houses, occasionally flooding them. This creates wonderful play of light on the surface of water.
If you want to see rural mornings around Cork, click here
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