National Botanical Gardens of Ireland – Winter
I really do love the botanic gardens, when I first got my DSLR I must have visited the place every week. I found it to be one of the best places to learn about how to use my camera and this remains...
View ArticleAll Along the Banks on the Royal Canal
Its a wonderful thing to be surprised by something so familiar. As a Dubliner I have looked at and passed over the royal canal literally hundreds of thousands of times in my life. I never really paid...
View ArticleMalahide Castle – North County Dublin
Construction of the castle began in 1175. Richard Talbot was granted the “lands and harbour of Malahide” by Henry II the King of England, Lord of Ireland. Talbot was a knight that had travelled with...
View ArticleAll Saints’ Church – Raheny – Dublin
Arthur Edward Guinness, Lord Ardilaun decided to build a church on the lands of his St Anne’s Estate in Raheny. He first proposed the idea in 1880 and the church was to replace the older St Assam’s...
View ArticleTemple of Isis – St Annes Park
The Temple of Isis sits on the bank of the duck pond in St Annes Park. It is one of the many follies built in the park during the 1800’s. The parkland was formally the estate of the Guinness family and...
View ArticleMeeting my Match(box) – Raheny
It’s been an age since I built a matchbox pinhole camera and since I’ve committed to doing a workshop doing that later in the week I though it was about time I tried to remember how to do it. Having...
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