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Happy New Year 2016

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...

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Storm Desmond Flooding

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...

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November Colour

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...

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Swinford Culture Night 2015

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...

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2015 Ireland Blog Awards Vote

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...

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2015 Ireland Blog Awards

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...

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Swinford Agricultural Show 2015

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...

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Aurora Borealis Over Swinford 2015

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...

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ISS Flyover Swinford 10th June

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...

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Belvedere Castle New York

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...

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