2017 Spring Colour In Swinford Some shots I’ve taken of the 2017 Spring colour in Swinford. Some of the earliest spring flowers to bloom are crocus’s. Its a pity that there’re so delicate and don’t last too long with the wind and rain. Luckily...
Winter Frosts 2016 Some winter frosts 2016 from earlier this month. As is always said, (and especially in the camera club), the best camera in the world is the one you have to capture the shot! Took a couple of shots one frosty morning while out on weekly tidy towns...
Autumn Colour 2016 Some Autumn colour 2016 from around Swinford. The best camera in the world, is the one you have in your hand to capture the shot! All these photos were taken with my mobile phone, a Samsung Galaxy S5. No filters used, flash used in one shot. As...
Aurora Over Swinford 13th October 2016 With the Autumn now here we are now entering the Aurora season once again. The Aurora Over Swinford 13th October 2016 wasn’t one I was expecting so soon! NOAA the space weather prediction centre, issued an alert for...
Prize Winner At 28th Swinford Agricultural Show The weather was terrible today but was a delighted prize winner at 28th Swinford Agricultural show. Usually we’d have our hanging baskets planted up and ready for hanging out on the first week of June as...
2016 Ireland Blog Awards I got notification earlier in the week letting me know that my site here has made the 2016 Ireland Blog Awards longlist. For a third year in a row I’ve somehow managed to make the Ireland Blog Awards longlist. Last year I was thrilled to...
Tears From A Rose With all the recent glorious fine weather we got here in Mayo recently, the gardens and flower beds are really beginning to come into bloom.
Some Early Summer Colour Around Swinford Has summer come early? The weather has been brilliant here for the last week or so. Here’s some early Summer colour from around Swinford that I managed to capture over the last few days. While out photographing a few...
April sunset over Swinford Its time that the weather started to pick up! Here’s a shot I got of an April sunset over Swinford. Photo of the sunset with Neiphen in the background was taken from a usual location I use, the top of the hill in Kilconduff Graveyard....
Spring 2016 Finally here, just about! Has Spring 2016 finally arrived? Some of our first dwarf daffodils have appeared in the last few days here in Swinford. We have also got some crocuses up, though some of them have been up for the last week in some of the tidy...
The Toughest Trade TV Documentary Mayo gaa’s Aidan O Shea is taking part in The Toughest Trade TV documentary, which is being filmed by AIB the main sponsors of the Club Championships. This is the second season of the toughest trade, the first series having been...
Mutton Lane Cork We were back in Mutton Lane Cork last week, when we were there for the start of the football league. This time around I had my camera with me to get some proper shots of Mutton Lane! Mutton Lane is just one of the many entrance’s into the...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
Purple Mountain County Kerry – Project 52 #43 Back on the road again following Mayo GAA brought us to Killarney for the first league match of 2015. We arrived in Killarney around lunchtime on Saturday, which gave me time to get a few sites of interest in. We...
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