Happy new year to all my family and friends, and to all my followers on this blog and all my other social media channels. It is the start of a new era here on the site, as you can see I have done a major overhaul on the website. I have also changed the name of the...
Wishing all my family and friends a very Happy Christmas & Happy New Year, and also to all my followers on the website here and on Twitter. I hope to photograph all the Christmas displays around Swinford over the Christmas period and I’ll post them up here...
We had the annual Siamsa Sraide street festival here in Swinford last week. I was busy as usual with Swinford Tidy Towns but I did manage to get some photos of busking day on the Wednesday which I will upload later. I only managed to get some video clips and missed...
Swinford hosted Fleadh Mhaigh Eo 2013 over the weekend of 10th, 11th and 12th of May. There were over 500 entries in the various categories of the Fleadh competition! My own Nephew Dylan came 2nd in his age group in the Fiddle, his first County Fleadh medal. A huge...
This weekend is the seventh and final round of the national football league. Mayo face the long trek down to Páirc úi Caoímh in Cork this Sunday. There is a big gang heading down to Cork, for what is a must win game for Mayo, to gaurantee us division 1 status again in...
Congratulations to Swinford Tidy Towns who won 1st prize in “The most original” category in Swinford’s 62nd annual St Patrick’s Day Parade. You can view all my photos of the parade here. You can view the video of the parade below....
I recently ordered a new lens for myself as I found the Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5 afs vr a bit slow in certain conditions. See photo; 28mm, f/4.5, iso 3200, @ 1/125sec. This is one of the first shots that I took with my new lens, Sigma 18-50mm f/2.8-4.5 DC HSM VR AFS....
A rare shot to get, made more difficult with the fog! Taken with my 300mm lens, f/5, 1/1250 sec, iso 3200, had to focus on manual for the first time! You can just see Jupiter to the left, it looks a lot brighter to the naked eye. For anyone that can’t see...
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