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Happy New Year 2016
Wishing everyone a very Happy New Year 2016 I would like to wish everyone a very Happy New Year 2016. Thanks to everyone who stopped by here during 2015. It has been a busy year! Although I did not do a Project 52 in 2015, my 2014 project spilled over into 2015. I do...
Storm Desmond Flooding
Storm Desmond Flooding Swinford There has been some serious flooding here in the Swinford area as a result of Storm Desmond. Met Eireann has had a status red warning issued for rainfall since last Friday. We have had nearly a months amount of rain, dumped on the west...
November Colour
November Colour Swinford Camera Club's monthly theme for November is Colour. However with the poor weather of late, as we do get at this time of year its hard to get out with the camera to get some November colour. I'm not too keen going out in the pouring rain with...
Aurora Over Swinford October 2015
Aurora over Swinford October 2015 I got another chance to view and photograph the Aurora over Swinford last night, or should I say early this morning! Thanks to Anne Marie for tipping me off about this recent spectacular show of the Northern Lights as there're also...
Swinford Culture Night 2015
Swinford Culture Night 18th September 2015 Swinford Culture night was held last Friday night in the Cultural Center Swinford as part of the national culture night celebrations. This is the 10th year of Culture night and I think the first one held in Swinford. Culture...
2015 Ireland Blog Awards Vote
The 2015 Ireland Blog Awards Vote Is Now Open The 2015 Ireland blog awards vote is now live. The voting is open to the public from today Monday 7th September. The public vote will be open for two weeks and will close on the 21st of September. The public vote will...
2015 Ireland Blog Awards
In August I got an email saying that my blog here had been nominated for the 2015 Ireland Blog awards. This is the second year running now that I have been nominated. Last year I only made the "long list" of blogs and did not progress to the short list. However...
Swinford Agricultural Show 2015
Swinford Agricultural Show 2015 Delighted to have won some prizes in the confined section of the Swinford agricultural show 2015 photography competition. The confined section is open to members of camera clubs only. Camera club members are not permitted to enter...
Aurora Borealis Over Swinford 2015
Well I finally got to see and photograph the Aurora Borealis over Swinford for the first time in real life last night! I've only ever see photos of the Aurora, mostly from Scandinavian countries and Northern America & Canada. Sometimes there has been sightings of...
ISS Flyover Swinford 10th June
The ISS was back over the Irish skies again last week. I managed to get some decent video footage of it again. The first video is from Tuesday night/Wednesday morning from 11.59. The second is from the next night, Wednesday night from 11.06. On Tuesday night the ISS...
Belvedere Castle New York
Belvedere Castle Central Park New York When is a Castle not a Castle? When its Belvedere Castle New York! Its hard to believe that it has been a full year this weekend when we were in New York for the opening round of the Connacht Championship match between Mayo and...
ISS Flyover Swinford 8th April 2015
ISS Flyover Swinford 8th April 2015 ISS flyover Swinford 8th April 2015 at 21.05 to 21.09. The ISS orbits the Earth in under 2 hours. It travels at a speed of between 17,300 and 17,500 miles per hour and is a distance of 200 miles from the Earths surface. The...
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