On Friday, a couple of people from my camera club and I took a trip to Wild Ireland Sanctuary in Donegal (link below photos). They are a sanctuary for bears, wolves, lynx, arctic foxes, wild boar, deer, monkeys, as well as snowy owls, otters, and some other birds.It is a place that I have meant …
Wildlife
I am trying to improve my wildlife and animal photography, so I thought that I would post these two photos to start with. Hopefully, by the end of this week, I will have more photos of a wider variety of creatures.
Puck the Guinness Drinking Goat
On a trip to Kerry last week, I meet this goat and his human. This male Irish Mountain goat is six years old and belongs to the chap behind him. One Christmas, Puck (the goat) was in a garden clearing all the overgrowth in it, when some local boys came and untied him. They proceeded …
Fota Wildlife Park
A trip to Fota Wildlife Park in Cork is always pleasure. Fota is two and a half hour drive from our house through some varied landscape, including the flat area around the Curragh and the Galtee range of mountains in Tipperary. For this trip I brought my Lumix LX100, as I was with a non …
National Bird of Prey Centre
A visit to Russborough House in Wicklow is always enjoyable, this time, we chose to go to the National Bord of Prey Centre located there, and saw some of the over forty birds housed in the Centre. We got to see the end of one of the regular flight displays that the Centres Falconers demonstrate …
My Top 5 Favourite Black & White Photographers
This is a tough list to formulate, however, at the moment, my top five favourite photographers are: Alexey Titarenko. I love his long exposure work, particularly the images of crowds of people. The mood of these images is slightly haunting to me. http://pin.it/TNCRkhj Michael Kenna. Kenna's use of black and white minimalism is, in  my mind, breathtaking. He …
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Dublin Zoo
Dublin Zoo recently announced the arrival of a baby Gorilla, a litter of Painted Dog pups and the opening of their new Orangutang enclosure. Sadly, I missed both the baby gorilla and the painted dog pups, I did however get to see the new Orangutang enclosure, which will be great for the residents. All the …
RDS Horseshow
The RDS Horseshow was held last week, this is one of my favourite Summer annual events and I always try to go to it. The horses are gorgeous and the atmosphere is fantastic. The highlight for me, is always the Showjumping, and this year the Riders and Horses were as spectacular as always. It is always …
National Bird of Prey Centre
Today, I had a very enjoyable and interesting visit to the National Bird of Prey Centre in the grounds of Russborough House and Gardens in Wicklow. The Centre is newly opened and will increase it's number of birds over the summer. They have flight displays, as well as walking tours with the birds and the …
Gallagher Photography 