Wet photo days on the canal
Nikon Fm2n, 35mm f2.5 lens
Kodak T-max 100, film
Nigel Borrington
I took these images back in 1986, with my then first SLR camera a Nikon fm2n, we were holidaying on a long boat that you can see in the second photo, for a week.
From what I can remember I don’t think we had one day without it raining and spent most of the time in the boat in front of a fire or in a pub drying out, its funny, at the same time you remember moments like this with great fondness!
This set of images has also reminded me to get back on track for my DIY film development project, I made a few phone calls and just need to go collect everything that I finally need to get on.
Nikon Fm2n, 35mm f2.5 lens
Kodak T-max 100, film
Nikon Fm2n, 35mm f2.5 lens
Kodak T-max 100, film
Nikon Fm2n, 35mm f2.5 lens
Kodak T-max 100, film
Kite Flyer – Bunmahon Beach
Nikon D200. 50mm f1.4 lens, iso100
Kite Flyer,Bunmahon Beach, county waterford
Landscape photography by kilkenny based photographer : Nigel Borrington
I first displayed this image as part of a photography exhibition about six years ago, It was taken on a very wet day on the beach and it was a pleasure to work with about five Kite flyers for the day. Keeping the camera dry was a skill I had to learn very quickly…..
Nigel
Kilkenny Castle
Nikon D90, iso 160, 50mm f1.4 lens
The Parade, kilkenny
Landscape photography : nigel Borrington
Matt the Millers Kilkenny
Nikon D90, iso 160, 50mm f1.4 lens
Matt the Millers Pub, kilkenny
Landscape photography : nigel Borrington
For anyone who is thinking of getting a basic slr camera, I think this night-time image of Matt the Millers in Kilkenny shows that you should give the Nikon D90 a good looking at. The D90 is one of Nikon’s longest ever running digital cameras and for good reason, for a starter or even for a Professional ( as a go anywhere, do anything, bottom of the bag camera ) its image quality is simply stunning. I have owned one since they came out and have love it from day one its not my only camera body and is down my list a little, but its one I will continue to use in its right place.
Personally, I go off results not what the Camera snobs say and this camera produces the results every time!
You can get them for around €550, or €350 body only on ebay…..
Saltee’s Great black backed Gull
Nikon D7000, 50mm f1.4 lens
Great black backed Gull,Saltee Islands, County Wexford
Wildlife photography : Nigel Borrington
OK, lets put a bit of wildlife colour into the day….
I took this image on a visit to the Saltee islands, county wexford. This wonderful Black backed gull was guarding her eggs very well indeed . What I cannot get across in the picture is the noise of the islands, with thousands of these birds both on the ground and in the air it is one of the best wildlife experiences you could dream of having on a spring day.
Kilkenny photography
Nikon D90 with IR720 Infra-red filter on a 50mm f1.4 lens
Castlecomer discovery park, County Kilkenny
Landscape photography: Nigel Borrington
Another Infra-red image from the Discovery park, Castlecomer, County Kilkenny.
Deep dark water, infra-red photography
Nikon D90 with IR720 Infra-red filter on a 50mm f1.4 lens
Castlecomer discovery park, County Kilkenny
Landscape photography: Nigel Borrington
One reason I truly love monochrome images is for the contrast range that can be achieved, no where is this more possible than when attaching an IR720 filter on to a lens.
This filter only lets in Infra-red light and excludes any other light wavelength, Thus anything that is emitting IR light will be recorded in light tones and any other area of the image will appear dark a deep, deep black.
It is this very high contrast that is so hard to achieve in photography, without post processing software. Using an IR720 filter however can produce this effect in images right out of the camera and they just look wonderful.
You do have some issues to over come however, you need to pre-focus and lock the focus before attaching the filter to the lens. You need long exposures and you need to experiment with the correct selection of setting for this by taking many shots as you will not truly be able to see the results until you get home.
You can get a camera completely converted to Infra-red, but this is expensive and may not always work i.e. the focusing system fails to work and some sensors produce better results than others.
70 years of Potato farming
There are some seventy years between the two photographs above, the young Girl in the left, in the original photograph is Mona, my Wife Breda’s mother, these fields have been ploughed and planted every year since.
Last year I took the following images of the family planting the potatoes again for another growing season, then collecting them after for sale. The machine in the pictures was originally imported from the US and hopefully will be working for many years to come.
I want the following images to tell the rest of this story……
The Lake (Edgar Allan Poe)…
Fujifilm X100
The Vee – Clogheen, Tipperary
Irish landscape photography : Nigel Borrington
The Lake
In spring of youth it was my lot
To haunt of the wide earth a spot
The which I could not love the less —
So lovely was the loneliness
Of a wild lake, with black rock bound,
And the tall pines that tower’d around.
But when the Night had thrown her pall
Upon that spot, as upon all,
And the mystic wind went by
Murmuring in melody —
Then — ah then I would awake
To the terror of the lone lake.
Yet that terror was not fright,
But a tremulous delight —
A feeling not the jewelled mine
Could teach or bribe me to define —
Nor Love — although the Love were thine.
Death was in that poisonous wave,
And in its gulf a fitting grave
For him who thence could solace bring
To his lone imagining —
Whose solitary soul could make
An Eden of that dim lake.
Edgar Allan Poe’s poem: The Lake
Sunday
Fujifilm X100
Hills above the Nire Valley
Landscape photography : Nigel Borrington
Sunday into Monday, the weekends fading light!
A Poem:
Dissolve
feelings fade
like the dull horizon
diminished by the sun
shades of orange
slowly turn dark
and bare themselves
like starlight
to the evening skyline
and the constant clamour of the countryside
decrescendos
into the babbling brook
and soft chirps of frogs
until once again
sleep comes
and a new morning
brings different light
Kassel D “and the constant clamour of the countryside”
“Its my weekend so…” : Molly
You have done the Grass, cleaned the car, washed the windows, weeded the beds, cleaned the house and done that blog thing again.
So can we please, please, please go back here… !
Molly@wordpress.com
PS if you love dogs please go and check out this Blog : http://mydogablog.com/2013/05/04/do-you-think/, Anne Casey and her Family along of course with Monty have the best little Doggy blog you can visit !! 🙂
Warning : You will fall in love with this Dog : Monty !!!
Its the weekend so…
Why not…
Travel some old roads…..
Visit some places you have not seen for a long time !!
Stop and take in the view…
Or find a beach and have some fun….
This Old Caravan
Nikon D200, 50mm f1.4 lens
The old Caravan
Walton Court, Oysterhaven Bay
County Cork
I took these images one September afternoon while we were on a weeks holiday at Walton Court, Kinsale, County Cork. I was walking our dog Molly down towards the beach when we came across this old wooden Caravan.
I just had to get some shots, it makes you wonder about the life it has had and how long it has been sitting here.
I found the owner the next day and its been a long term dream to restore it but I think the downturn has probably delayed that a little, one day however it would be wonderful to see it looking as new
Nigel
Creating your own ipad or windows Backdrop
For anyone who knows me by now you will have noticed that I love getting creative with almost anything that can produce an image from scanners to pin hole, film to digital. I also love to spend as much time as possible at a beach over the weekend.
One weekend while sitting on a beach watching molly swim and the waves roll in, I was looking a the pebbles and the colours that the water created on them. I have tried many times to bring some home but by the time they are dry the colours have faded so much you wonder why you bothers with them.
Well an idea came to me, this being to put them in water and freeze them then using a flash gun on the other side of the block of Ice to back light the ice and pebbles see if I could record the colours for good.
I am very happy with the result and think these images make for a wonderful Windows or Ipad backdrop, have a go! you could freeze almost anything and as its spring why not flower or leafs etc…
Photography challenge : Motion
Molly in motion:
All images with a Nikon d7000, 50mm f1.4 lens
Panning the camera with a slow shutter speed, try it its great fun!
I love the combination of the movement and the in focus and sharp water spray as she moves, click on the images for the full effect of this…..
Real world, wedding photography …..
Real local kilkenny wedding days….
Yesterday afternoon in between working on some photography archiving work and starting to help with another blog, I also looked at the update of my photography business web site.
Lake Windermere
Nikon D200,50mm f1.4 lens
Rowing boats at windermere
Nigel Borrington
Rowing the waters
If you do go to Lake windermere then rowing on the lake on a good day is one thing you will never forget doing!
Rowing boats are available from the wooden huts to the right of Bowness promenade and from Waterhead (Ambleside). Rowing Boats are £13.00 for 1 or 2 adults and children under 16 are free.
They are open in the summer every day from 9.00am.
The views you will get on the windermere open water are unforgettable…
Two boats and Windermere
Nikom D200. 50mm f1.4 lens
Two Boats and Windermere
Nigel Borrington
This photo was taken one morning at a small bay on lake windermere in the lake district national park, Windermere is some 18km long and at it widest some 2km wide. Its one of the most beautiful places I know and if you can spend sometime you will find many wonderful location just to set and read and study the wildlife or nature it offers.
Even just to sit and look at these two boats moving slowly in the water is something I will always remember.
So then Windermere and two boats and one cleared out mind!
Good morning Ducks
Nikon D7000, 50mm f1.4 lens, iso 200
Russian grey geese
Nigel Borrington
This Morning is one of our last mornings for a while that we are looking after our friends farm while they are away, So I thought I would share the experience of feeding their Muscovy ducks( Thank you seeingspotsphoto ).
They sleep the night in a home made hut to keep out any interested foxes that may wonder into the field, the hut is just lovely and the work that going into both building it and keeping it looking so rustic is wonderful.
The six of them eat wet meal feed served into a dish from a bucket filled with water and soaked overnight, its just brilliant to watch them in the morning finding a place to feed from.
This time helping look after the chickens, geese and horses has just been brilliant!
Tramore Beach
Nikon D200, 35mm focal length f2.8 lens, Iso 800
Tramore Beach,
County Waterford
Word list and play:
People, beach, sand, sounds, waves, cars, chips, cans, parking, fun, dogs, running, holes, digging, walking, sitting, looking, sleeping, parents, kids, couples, crying, kicking, ball, boats, boards, paper, bags….
Feel free to add more !
Little Red Tractor
Nikon d200, nikon 50mm f1.4 lens
The little red David brown
Landscape photography : Nigel Borrington
So we came across this little red tractor on a long days walk in the Lake District National Park sometime back, it was just sitting out side a farmhouse that had also been converted into a tea shop. We had to stop and take in some food and the views along with this little Red Tractor..
Weekly Photo Challenge: Culture
The Hurley Maker at work:
What is Hurling : wikipedia
Kilkenny hurling team : Kilkenny hurling
Molly
Nikon D200, Nikon 24-85mm lens
Molly
As part of re-designing my website I came across this image of Molly our 10 years old retrieve,I think she was about five at the time…..
I just had to share it…..
Kilkenny landscape photography
Nikon D7000, 50mm f1.4 lens, iso 400
Kings river, kilkenny landscape images
Nigel Borrington
Misty Morning on the Kings river…
The Kings River (Irish: Abhainn Rí), flows through South Tipperary and County Kilkenny. It is a tributary of the River Nore.
It has its source in the Slieveardagh Hills in South Tipperary.It has many tributaries of its own.There are three main tributaries that are not named but are the original sources.One started as a spring in the townsland of Ballyphilip.The two remaining tributaries rise in the townsland of Gurteen. It flows southeast from the hills and crosses into County Kilkenny. It is joined by the Munster River before passing through the town of Callan. It continues eastwards from Callan, past Kells and joins the River Nore west of Thomastown.
Last one for today…
I am about to start re-designing my http://www.studio63.ie web site, I need to start thinking about how to rebuild this and my business ideas, who knows what to do at the moment, but here goes anyway!!
Nigel Borrington 
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