One of the many groups and clubs I’m involved with is Swinford Handball Club. The Mayo GAA Handball Awards night were held last night in the County Lodge Hotel in Aughagower, just outside Westport. I went along both to support our local club and to take a few...
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...
Earlier in the summer I traveled with Swinford Camera Club on a photowalk tour in Co. Leitrim. One of our planned stops was Creevelea Abbey, which is located just outside the village of Dromahair, in Co. Leitrim. We really do have many hidden gems in the west of...
On a recent outing with Swinford Camera Club, we visited Parke’s Castle which is located on the shores of Lough Gill in Leitrim. This is a beautifully restored plantation Castle dating from the early 17th century. In the courtyard you can see the evidence of an...
Swinford Camera Club organised an outing recently to Eagles Flying which is located between Tubbercurry and Ballymote in County Sligo. I had heard stories from my Niece and Nephews about Eagles Flying from school trips that they were on to the center. I have to say I...
Any of you that are into photography will know this already, no matter how many lens’ that you have, you still need that new lens that the others just won’t cover! As I immerse myself even more into photography, I find myself in that very same position. I...
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...
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....
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