Kilkenny photography
National Tree week 2012.
National Tree week Kilkenny : Nigel Borrington 2012
National Tree week this year is from the 4th to the 10th of March and I am currently making some plans to hold an exhibition of Woodland images during this week.
Kilkenny Woodlands exhibition : Nigel Borrington 2012
Kilkenny woodlands : Nigel Borrington 2012
About National Tree Week 2012
National Tree Week is an annual, week-long festival celebrating all positive aspects of trees in our lives and environment. It is organised by the Tree Council of Ireland.
National Tree Week takes place from 4-10 March 2012. The theme is ‘Trees – Our Past, Our Present, Our Future’. During National Tree Week, as well as prompting people to plant more trees, we are asking people to celebrate our remarkable heritage of trees and woodlands and to recognise the significance of trees and forests as a living link to our past, as an enjoyable, life-enhancing asset in the present, and as a wise investment in our future.
National tree week 2012
National Tree Week is an opportune chance for Tree Council member organisations, local authorities, tidy towns and community groups, schools, families and many others all over Ireland to do something positive for their local landscape. By setting up events for National Tree Week within your community or organisation, you can inspire people, young and old, to get out into the fresh air and together plant thousands of trees. It is great fun too – even on a wet blustery day, the thrill of going out and getting your hands dirty, something many of us don’t do often enough, is really rewarding and satisfying whether you are planting one tree or a hundred.
National tree week : Nigel Borrington
One of the main projects of National Tree Week 2012 is the distribution of over 15,000 trees, sponsored by Coillte, and distributed by local authorities throughout the country to local community groups and schools for planting during and around National Tree Week. If your school or community group would like to receive some of these trees for planting during National Tree Week, contact your local County or City Council.
National Tree week 2012 : Nigel Borrington
I will keep you updated
Nigel
Downey Emerald
A true Irish Dragonfly
Photographed in the old grounds of Blachfieldsland, Co Kilkenny
Kilkenny wildlife photography by Kilkenny photographer, Nigel Borrington
Kilkenny Weather, June 2011
Kilkenny Rain
Week starting 20th June 2011
“A poor start but better finish to this week. During Monday, rain will spread up from the south. The rain will become more showery overnight Monday but expect yet more heavy showers for Tuesday and Wednesday. Thursday should be a better day – cool with some sun and the showers will be lighter. On Friday we should get away with a completely dry day. There may be some light rain on Friday night but it looks like there may some pleasant weather over the weekend. The temperatures should improve and it should stay largely dry. At this stage it doesn’t look like this good spell will last very long with the prospect of more light rain arriving early next week.”
Kilkenny photography series, by Kilkenny photographer : Nigel Borrington
Kilkenny wildlife
Heron on the kings river, Kells, Co.KIlkenny
With the June bank holiday over, I got moving very early this morning to find this young Heron looking for her first fish of the day.
Heron with Mallards, Kings river,Kells, Co KIlkenny
I walked along the Kings river for about half an hour and by the time I returned to the same location as the first photograph she was still looking, the Mallards in the foreground however looked like they had already eaten.
Kilkenny photography by Kilkenny photographer, Nigel Borrington.
Poppies, Kells Co.Kilkenny
Poppies, Kells Co.Kilkenny
Nigel Borrington 2011,
Kilkenny photorgaphy series.
National Biodiversity week
Biodiversity Week 21st. -29th. May 2011
Sloe Bug - Nikon D700
Sloe bug, photographed in Kilkenny Millenium Forest
“On 22 May 2011 countries all over the world will celebrate International Day of Biodiversity, a global celebration to raise public awareness of the importance of biodiversity and the consequences of its loss.
As part of the celebrations the National Parks and Wildlife Service of the Department of Arts, Heritage & the Gaeltacht, environmental NGO’s, Local Authorities and a wide range of other organisations have arranged a week long celebration of Ireland’s biodiversity, with plenty of activities aimed at all age groups.”
Image by kilkenny photographer (Nigel Borrington), Kilkenny photography series..
Hoverfly feeding
Syrphus ribesli (Hover fly)
Syrphus ribesli
Nikon D90, 105mm macro lens
Hover fly – feeding on nectar.
Taken hand held using a very shallow depth of field from the Nikon 105mm f2.8 lens, so that I could focus in on the fly s head as it fed.
Kilkenny wildlife, Ballykeefe woods
Spring Rabbit
Spring rabbit, Sheep’s head, West cork
Spring Rabbit
Nikon D90, Nikon 70-300mm f3.5-5.6 Vr lens
Early Marsh Orchid
Early Marsh orchid, Ballykeefe, Co Kilkenny
Early Marsh orchid
Nikon D200, Nikon 105mm f2.8 Macro lens
Ballykeefe woods Blackbird
Moonlit Blackbird in Ballykeefe woods, Co Kilkenny.
Ballykeefe woods,Kilkenny, blackbird in moonlight
Nikon D90, Nikon 70-200 Af-EDg f2.8 lens.
Herons
Herons nest building at Galway bay.
Herons nest building, Co. Galway
Nikon D90, nikon 70-300 f3.5-5.6 Vr lens
Nigel Borrington 
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