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Irish Boglands and Peatlands

Sam Mateer

Back In 2004 I attended an art exhibition held in our local friary hall. The exhibition titled Currents was being shown in many locations in the republic of Ireland and The North of Ireland during that year. I was taken by many of the artists ( I will come back to some of them in future posts) but for me one stood out above the others, this being Sam Mateer and his paintings of the Irish Bog-lands.

Over the last few years I have visited and photographed these areas of the country and aim to continue doing so.

Since the start of the year I have also been considering returning to some landscape painting and drawing, so what better subject areas can you find that these unique and magical places.

The set of images below are just some of the many photographs I have taken in order to start to get to grips of this project.

Irish bog lands 1
Fujifilm X100

Irish bog lands 2
Fujifilm X100

Irish bog lands 3
Fujifilm X100

Irish bog lands 4
Fujifilm X100

Irish bog lands 5
Fujifilm X100

Irish bog lands 6
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Irish bog lands 7
Fujifilm X100

Posted by  |  May 27, 2013 | Categories: Gallery, Landscape, Nature and Wildlife | Tags: , , , , , , | 22 Comments

The weekends fading light

Sunday evening in Kilkenny

Nikon D700, 50mm f1.4 lens, iso 200
Kilkenny sunset, South Kilkenny
Landscape photography : Nigel Borrington

Sunday evenings are my most favourite time of the week, the weekends light is fading fast and we have a new week ahead of us, new chances to grow and reach our aims.

Posted by  |  May 26, 2013 | Categories: Landscape, Solo images | Tags: , , , , , , | 13 Comments

Kilkenny landscape photography

kilkenny photography
Nikon D7000, 50mm f1.4 lens
Kilkenny Rapeseed fields
Landscape Photography : Nigel Borrington

I love this time of year all the fields in County Kilkenny are coming to life. The Rapeseed fields are just the most wonderful site of them all…..

Rapeseed

She buried the thought
seeds of long ago .
Spirit fields then did ignite
with rapeseed light.

By : Saiom Shriver

Summer in Kilkenny
Nikon D7000, 50mm f1.4 lens
Kilkenny Rapeseed fields
Landscape Photography : Nigel Borrington

Posted by  |  May 25, 2013 | Categories: Gallery, Landscape, Poetry Gallery | Tags: , , , , , , | 19 Comments

Its the weekend so……

The weekend on Windermere
Nikon F90x, 35mm lens, Kodak film
Lake Windermere, Lake district national park, United Kingdom
Landscape photography by : Nigel Borrington

Its the weekend so why not find somewhere new to yourself and explore ……

Posted by  |  May 25, 2013 | Categories: Gallery, Solo images, Travel Locations | Tags: , , , , , , , , | 9 Comments

Flowers on the river bank

Yesterday’s weather here in Kilkenny was just wonderful and all the flowers along the river Nore are coming to life, It was just brilliant to be able to capture the two images below.

Kilkenny photography spring flowers from the river bank
Nikon D200, 50mm f1.8 lens, iso 200
Flowers on the banks of the river Nore kilkenny
Nigel Borrington

Kilkenny photography spring flowers
Nikon D200, 50mm f1.8 lens, iso 200
Flowers on the banks of the river Nore kilkenny
Nigel Borrington

Posted by  |  May 24, 2013 | Categories: Gallery, Nature and Wildlife | Tags: , , , , | 2 Comments

Pentax Super A

Pentax Super A
Pentax Super A, a 1983 manual focus camera

Reclaiming found things

Well, well – Hello! I didn’t even know you were still around….

Going through some old box’s of things from the old loft last week I found this camera and it must be one of the first SLR Camera’s I ever owned. Back in 1985, I moved from Altrincham near Manchester to live and work for Chase Manhattan bank as an IBM programmer.

Rayners Lane I Purchased this Pentax Super A from the shop across the road from the flat I rented. You can just about make out the shop in this photograph (Image photography) which by the way is the first frame from the first roll of film I ever used in this Camera.

I don’t remember at which point I didn’t use this Pentax any more, I think it is when I started getting into Nikon Cameras with an FM2n body which I thought was my first SLR film camera.

I just love finding old things and believe me I will use this camera again now its re-found. I am attempting to get some processing chemicals to do a post on black and white negative processing, the shop I was hoping to get it from however let me down so I am having to get it imported from Birmingham in the UK.

Here are some Sample images that I took first time around with this Pentax Super A.

Pentax Super A sample 3

Pentax Super A sample 4

Pentax Super A sample 1

Posted by  |  May 24, 2013 | Categories: About Nigel Borrington, Camera reviews, Comment, Gallery | Tags: , , , , , , | 14 Comments

Depth, in the flower bed

These two images are another example of using lens depth of field to good effect using a wonderful flower bed on our local river bank. The first image is using F8 and the Second image is using F1.8 as a lens aperture setting.

Kilkenny photography flowers at the river nore
Nikon D200, 50mm lens at f8, iso 200
Flowers on the banks of the river Nore, country Kilkenny
Kilkenny based Photographer : Nigel Borrington

Kilkenny photography flowers at the river nore banks
Nikon D200, 50mm lens at f1.8, iso 200
Flowers on the banks of the river Nore, country Kilkenny
Kilkenny based Photographer : Nigel Borrington

Posted by  |  May 23, 2013 | Categories: Gallery, Landscape, Nature and Wildlife | Tags: , , , , , , | 6 Comments

Flowers on the river bank

Kilkenny photography flowers
Nikon D200, 50mm f1.8 lens, iso200
Flowers on the River Nore, county kilkenny
Kilkenny photographer : Nigel Borrington

Posted by  |  May 23, 2013 | Categories: Landscape, Nature and Wildlife | Tags: , , , , | 2 Comments

Flowers an in depth look.

Flowers an in depth look
Nikon D200, 50mm f1.8 lens

This afternoon has turned into a wonderful day :), the weather here in Ireland has gone from spring to almost summer like in one week and everything is coming to life. I went out with Molly our Golden retriever after lunch for a walk along the river bank and there are flowers coming out every step you take.

As always I had a camera with me and took lots of images, its always fun with flower beds to play with lens depth of field and the panel of images below shows the effects of Lens apertures f8 upto f1.8 on image depth.

Fowers in depth panel
Nikon D200, 50mm f1.8 lens

More images from this walk to follow….

Posted by  |  May 23, 2013 | Categories: Landscape, Nature and Wildlife | Tags: , , , , | 6 Comments

Windermere boat Museum

blue bird
Nikon F90x, Ilford XP2. Iso 400

These images were taken during a visit to the Lake district boat museum some years back, I have been scanning a lot of my old films and came across these as part of a set that I will use in full at some point, For the moment however these two images show one of histories great boats used to set world water speed records….

blue bird engine
Nikon F90x, Ilford XP2. Iso 400

I just love the contrast of Ilford xp2 film….

Posted by  |  May 23, 2013 | Categories: Gallery, Travel Locations | Tags: , , , , , , , , | 5 Comments