Snow Bench

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Here is another photo from the recent cold snap in Dublin. This time a photo from St Stephens Green. Travel with work is eating into my photo time but I just got a Canon Powershot SD1200 IS as a birthday present so I plan to take that with me on my travels so I’ll have some new photos to display.

I’d love to be able to carry my DSLR but airline baggage restrictions just dont allow me to carry what I need for work and still fit the DSLR. But as people say, the best camera to take a photo with is the one you have with you so the powershot will be a great addition to my kit.

Once I get to use the camera in anger I might post a review here but so far I’m well pleased. I’ve never really liked small point and click cameras but this one seems a huge leap forward from the old Olympus I had 3 years ago.

Winter Fence

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On Christmas Eve morning around dawn I took a walk out up into farm land near my parents house. This fence separates my parents land from the neighbors land. Concrete posts set up by the Irish Land Commission decades preciously to divide up land between several different families.

I’ve also decided to try and get some photos in 10×8 print format. My photos from the last two Peoples Photography exhibitions were printed in A4 size. I prefer the A4 since it more closely matched what I saw in the viewfinder but it makes it difficult to find suitable frames. For Peoples Photography 2010 I hope to print more black and white in this format.

Winter Wonderland

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We finally had a decent fall of snow in Ireland. We never get snow, not real snow. A light dusting of snow leads to a national crisis. A single snow flake can cause traffic jams stretching from Dublin to Cork.

That changed this year just before Christmas when Christmas Eve brought a winter wonderland to the hills above my home town of Clonmel. Great timing as well as I had just arrived home the night before. It may have brought travel chaos this Christmas but it was beautiful.

Winter Statue

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So after those late autumn photos it’s time for winter. Normally you don’t get much more winter in Ireland than a bare trees, winter coats, and the odd husky dog (probably feeling very warm). Though right now the snow is falling so hopefully I’ll get some nice photos over the next couple of days.

Autumn Stroll

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Another old autumn photo I thought I’d post as I look out my window at the snow falling. This photo was taken in St Stephens Green (again) back in October just a couple of weeks before the leaves fell and left the trees bare.