red mum

IF YOU are not Lisboned-out, okay okay you are, but if you have never been to a count before, here’s a little photo-essay which should give you a flavour of the day. As ever more on Flickr and I’ll post what i consider to be the better ones on Pix.ie.

SOME random images from the last week. Once I finish the back log of images, I’m sure there’ll be more.

WELL they were taken nearly two weeks ago at the last Toe Jam photomeet at the Dublin Maritime Festival and finally here are some of the images of the day. It was another great photomeet, with outrageously wonderful weather. Not only were there some Toe Jam regulars, our new name, some new snappers came along from boards.ie as well as someone who read about the meet on Dublin Blog.

I will come back and edit this with everyone’s links, but for now I’ll just post some pics to prove I have actually posted them at long last.

As ever it has been cool to see everyone else’s contribution from the day in our Flickr group. On the day itself there were hoards of people at the festival which made taking photographs rather tough but I suppose on the other hand it made you work harder for images.

There are more days out planned and if you fancy coming along check out the Facebook group, or our Flickr group as well as keeping an eye here and on Dublin Blog for details of the next one, which I imagine will be sooner rather than later.

So over to the images.

CAN’T talk, full, had barbecue. In the meantime, here’s a pic. Still have pics from last week to process, more soon.

IT SEEMS last night was one of the beautiful evenings where everyone stops, looks at the sky and thinks wow. I was working out in Blanchardstown from late afternoon and once that was all done I was delighted to get a lift back into town around 9pm when the colours in the sky were just popping magnificently.

And lucky me, I was at the Quays with my camera AND my long lens which I don’t normally carry. I only took a couple of shots as the light was rapidly going and I was carrying a lot of bags. But I was happy with what I got, the only thing is I need to find the fine line between what I see on my Mac to what the image looks like on a PC and then on top of that on Flickr. The two orange/red silhouette/statue images were more red on my Mac but still and all I am delighted to have managed to capture Superman, Batman and Yer Man in the middle. (Thanks to both Will and Darragh for spotting our Super Heroes.)

The sunset flooding down the Phoenix Park was something else also.

We are really lucky in Ireland to have the beautiful quality of light that we do. There are so many types of light something we can boast about to warmer climes with their stark bright sunshine. We have twilight or the beautiful light after an evening shower, I could go on and on. But last night was particularly beautiful and almost cancelled out all the rain today