Author: Claire

Kiss Me I’m Irish

Canon 5DII, 200mm, f7.1, 1/800, ISO 800

Some more photos from the parade yesterday, such a brilliant day and would you believe I actually had a touch of sunstroke this morning that’s how sunny it was! Either that or the Irish winter was so dark and dismal I’m not used to sunlight anymore. Thanks again to Marcus, Pix.ie, the St. Patrick’s Festival and the Guinness Storehouse for a fab time.

Canon 5D, 40mm, f4, 1/3200, ISO 320

Canon 5DII, 200mm, f7.1, 1/340, ISO 800

Canon 5D, 20mm, f4, 1/1250, ISO 200

Canon 5D, 40mm, f4, 1/2000, ISO 200

Canon 5D, 40mm, f4, 1/1600, ISO 200

Canon 5DII, 200mm, f7.1, 1/1600, ISO 800

Ireland Photography

This Way For The Parade

Had a fantastic day at the St Patrick’s Day parade, I have so many photos to go through but I’m far too exhausted to even look through them. This is just a little preview.

Blogging Photography

Ladies Tea Party 09

I didn’t take many photos at Sabrina‘s fabulous Ladie’s Tea Party, mainly because I was too busy chatting but there were yummy cakes that just had to be photographed. The cupcakes were at least as yummy as they looked and were made by the very talented Jo, and the brownies were courtesy of Niall Harbison. They were so chocolatey even a confirmed chocoholic like myself was defeated after a couple of bites. Yum!

But this lady is so popular we even had gatecrashers clamouring to see her:

Ben and Peter arrived to receive their ToyBoy badges:

I think this is a first…Peter Donegan rendered speechless:

There’s a few more to be seen on Flickr.

Blogging Photography

Cork Photowalk

Canon 5DII, 28mm, f1.8, 1/160, ISO 800

I know, I know, I’ve totally missed the boat on posting photos from the Blog Awards weekend down in Cork. It was such a brilliant weekend but when I got back I stepped right back into a mountain of work that has had me a bit overwhelmed for the past few weeks. I didn’t even have a chance to look at the photos I took until last night. This post has some of the photographs taken on the photowalk around Cork the afternoon of the awards. We started out at the English Market…

Canon 5DII, 28mm, f4, 1/500, ISO 800

Canon 5DII, 28mm, f2, 1/200, ISO 800

From there we walked across the river to Shandon Bell Tower…

Canon 5DII, 17mm, f5.6, 1/400, ISO 200

Canon 5DII, 17mm, f5.6, 1/320, ISO 200

Canon 5DII, 40mm, f5.6, 1/800, ISO 200

Canon 5DII, 50mm, f4, 1/640, ISO 200

Ireland Photography

Pix.ie Paddy’s Day Partay

I had to really trawl through my archives to find these photographs but they are the only photographs I have with a Paddy’s Day theme and they aren’t even of the parade! That will all change this year as Pix.ie have organised a fabulous day out for photobloggers and the St Patrick’s Festival are granting us passes to watch the parade from the good seats on O’Connell Street! I can’t wait and I’m clearing all my cards and charging all my batteries so I can take many many photos.

But that’s not all! I’m probably the last blogger to post about this (I’ve been so bad lately) but there’s a brilliant competition too. This is from the Pix.ie blog:

As some of you already know, Pixie has been working with the organisers of the Irish St Patrickâ€™s Festival on a huge photo sharing project to help document this yearâ€™s festival in photos from the perspective of those attending. The aim is to invite everyone bringing their camera to this yearâ€™s events to contribute their photos to the official St Patrickâ€™s Festival group so that the experience can be shared with people from all over the world.

To make things a little more interesting, weâ€™ve created a competition (more details to follow) and will be selecting three lucky winners whose photos capture the spirit of the festival. Canon have very kindly offered to sponsor some of the best prizes weâ€™ve seen in a photo competition and with a total value of just under â‚¬1,800, these are very generous prizes!!!

* 1st Prize â€“ Canon EOS 1000D digital SLR camera, Selphy ES3 photo printer, 150 Euro photography training course, adding memory card and photo printing paper. Total value â‚¬1,050
* 2nd Prize â€“ Powershot E1 digital camera and Selphy ES3 photo printer. Total Value â‚¬480
* 3rd Prize â€“ Selphy ES3 photo printer. Total Value â‚¬240

So if you’re going to the festival bring your camera and when you get home upload your photos to Pix.ie here and you might just bag yourself a new camera!

Thanks to Marcus for yet another brilliant photo coup and thanks to St Patrick’s Festival for letting us join in the fun.