Category: Photography

My Grandparent’s House

Canon 10D 28mm, f1.8, 1/125, ISO 200

The day after my DaDa passed away I went to his house to take photographs. It might sound a little morbid but this house is something very special in my family. My grandparent’s lived there for their whole married life, and it was my great-grandparent’s house before that. My mother was born in their bedroom upstairs and so were her two brothers and two sisters. For as long as I can remember it was the hub of our extended family…Christmas, New Years, summertime, Sunday dinners…it all happened there. So, now that it’s to be sold and passed on to become a part of somebody else’s family history, I wanted to try and capture something of it. I spent nearly two hours photographing everything I could think of and my plan is to create a book with all the photographs. Something to keep and remember.

In the meantime (the book is taking me awhile to put together) I thought I might share just a couple of shots. These are a few that I took in the old kitchen of the house including my NaNa’s old recipe book stuffed full of recipes she’d torn from magazines and many more in her own handwriting. Grannymar I thought of you when I found these and made sure to take photographs of the handwritten ones!

Canon 10D 28mm, f1.8, 1/30, ISO 200

Canon 10D 28mm, f1.8, 1/60, ISO 200

Canon 10D 28mm, f1.8, 1/180, ISO 200

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#23: Paddy

Canon 10D 85mm, f2, 1/350, ISO 100

I’m back in Dublin working with Brown Bag for the next 3 weeks so my camera got a bit of a trip to the city. So many interesting faces! Paddy stopped me in my tracks because he’s the spitting image of my late father-in-law. He looks really suspicious of me here but he was actually very friendly.

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#22: Diarmuid

Canon 10D 28mm, f2, 1/350, ISO 100

I was in Cork over the weekend so I could take some photos of Diarmuid’s family. It was freezing so they were really good sports about going out and allowing me to take the photos outdoors. Especially Diarmuid who had been promised a ride on the digger and was very excited about it 😀

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Newborn

Canon 10D 28mm, f1.8, 1/180, ISO 200

More from my afternoon with Daniel and his mum. I had a hard time confining myself to just a few of these because this little fella is just gorgeous. Thanks again to Maura for her patience and for allowing me to show these. If you’d like to see some more there’s a link at the end to the Flickr set.

Canon 10D 28mm, f1.8, 1/250, ISO 400

Canon 10D 28mm, f1.8, 1/1000, ISO 400

Canon 10D 28mm, f1.8, 1/350, ISO 400

Canon 10D 28mm, f1.8, 1/180, ISO 200

Click here for the rest of the set

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#21: Daniel

Canon 10D 28mm, f1.8, 1/125, ISO 200

I mentioned yesterday that I was doing my very first newborn shoot today and this is Daniel, just 10 days old and absolutely beautiful. His mum Maura was so laid back and patient and Daniel was a natural. I raced home and started working on the photos straight away because I was so excited and nervous to see how they turned out. I certainly learned a lot, particularly that I really love newborn photography! I’ll post a few more over the next day or so.