Molly at Burnchurch catle, Co.Kilkenny
Molly is our eight year old golden retriever, this images is of her at Burnchurch Castle, Co.Kilkenny
Photo by Kilkenny photographer, Nigel Borrington
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Scanner Art
Scanner art - Nigel Borrington
Scanner Art, by Kilkenny photographer and artist : Nigel borrington
Callan Friary Green
Callan Friary Green : Kilkenny photographer - Nigel Borrington
Kilkenny Photography by Kilkenny photographer – Nigel Borrington
Autumn Equinox
The 23rd September Equinox Explained
Autumn Equinox : Nigel Borrington
The 2011 September equinox occurs at 09:04 (or 9:04am) Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) on September 23, 2011. It is also referred to as the autumnal or fall equinox in the northern hemisphere, as well as the spring or vernal equinox in the southern hemisphere (not to be confused with the March equinox). This is due to the seasonal contrasts between both hemispheres throughout the year.
What happens during the September equinox?
The sun crosses the celestial equator and moves southward in the northern hemisphere during the September equinox. The location on the earth where the sun is directly overhead at solar noon is known as the subsolar point. The subsolar point occurs on the equator during the September equinox and March equinox. At that time, the earth’s axis of rotation is perpendicular to the line connecting the centers of the earth and the sun. This is the time when many people believe that the earth experiences 12 hours of day and night.
Images from the Waterford Coast line for the 23rd September 2011
The Celtic year is almost over, Samain is almost here!
Landscape photography by Kilkenny photographer : Nigel Borrington
Digital art – Photographic Interpretation
Photographic Art - Scanner art
Digital photography and digital images can be produced without a camera of any kind (Phones, Scanner and fax Machines) can all be used to produce images of many kinds.
Scanner Art by : Nigel Borrington
Kilkenny photographer and Artist.
Kilkenny Art
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Kilkenny photography
Digital processing
Digiital image processing skills are as much a part of the modern photographer’s job as was the darkroom in the past.
The following images show just how far a single image can be taken from the original.
Coolagh, Co.KIlkenny.
Toned and Bleached second image.
Trees at Coolagh, Co Kilkenny - Processed using image layer processing.
Kilkenny Photography, Trees at Coolagh in lightning ( Photoshop processing)
The original image taken at coolagh, Co Kilkenny, was produced as part of an art and design project back in 2007.
Kilkenny Photography by Nigel Borrington
Grennan mill craft school
Grennan mill craft school
On returning after my summer break (September 2011), I have made a decision to do a full review of my current portfolio along with the direction my photography is moving in over the next months. Even in good times I think this is a good thing to do once a year.
Grennan mill craft school - Art and craft work
I have kept all my portfolio work over the last years and started to do a review at the weekend. One area of my portfolio I have not posted to date is my Art and Craft work. For starters it’s not exclusively photography and as such I have not wanted to muddy the waters.
However I feel that this work is as much a part of my portfolio history as anything, so I am going to show you some of the work that I submitted in order to pass the Level five course that I attended at the Grennan mill – craft and art school, Thomastown, county Kilkenny.
I attended the course full time between 2005 and 2008 and I enjoyed every minute, its without doubt one of the best things I have ever done and I would recommend this course to anyone.
The course involved the following subjects below and the pictures are from my portfolio in these areas.
Batik, Ceramics, Design, Drawing, Painting, Metal craft, Printing, Photography Textile weaving.
Grennan mill craft school - Exam exhibition
Grennan mill craft school - Metal craft
Grennan mill craft school - metal craft
Grennan mill craft school - Print making
Grennan mill craft school - Print making
Grennan mill craft school
Grennan mill craft school - Art and design
Grennan mill craft school - stone sculpture
Grennan Mill craft school - Batik
Grennan mill craft school - Ceramics : Sun dial
Grennan mill craft school - Design
Grennan mill craft school - Metal craft
Grennan mill craft school - photography
Grennan mill craft school - Photography and design sheet image
Grennan mill craft school
Grennan mill craft school - Metal craft and design
Kilkenny art work and design
So there you are that’s my craft and art work, does it relate to the photography I am currently doing? You bet it does!
This course helped me with the design and vision that I hope I can put into my current work and who knows maybe one day I will come back to a more direct application for it, maybe I already have.
Kilkenny art work and photography by Nigel Borrington.
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Kilkenny photography 17th Sep 2011
So then its back to Kilkenny and today feels very much like the end of the summer season, 10c this evening and the weather was great for some images. Its my first full weekend home after my summer holidays, these images are posted right out of the camera as I felt like I needed to get some local work covered right away!
Good, I am home and I have some new Landscape work within hours!
Kilkenny Landscape photography,
By Nigel Borrington
Grand Canal quay, Dublin
Grand canal quay, Dublin
In the last few years most of my landscape photography has been based on rural images. However during the summer I have spend some time staying in Sandymount, Co.Dublin.
Grand canal quay area, Co.Dublin
Staying in a city again is a blast of fresh air and a welcome break from rural Kilkenny. I lived and worked in London for some 20 years starting in the mid nineteen eighties. In Between visits to Dublin or London it is easy to forgot the visual differences that a city can offer over the countryside.
The main things that stand out to me are the elements of structure and form. Fields and mountains offer a more open and natural combination of structure to the eye. However this structure is less natural than most of us care to remember, you have to search the nation of Ireland very hard these days to find much land that has not been changed by farming of one kind or another.
Standing at Grand canal quay, Dublin however visually sent me back some ten years or so, I would pass buildings like these every day on the way to my office and then on the way home again. The lines, glass and the interaction of the architecture just hits you as a photographer like a visual feast and as I say is a breath of fresh air.
Grand canal theatre, Co Dublin
Many people would think this visual enjoyment to be completely mad, it’s not something that most Irish people experience every day. The idea of modern architecture has yet to reach most of the small towns that make-up the nation, after all the development of Grand canal quay was only started in 2003.
Personally this kind of cityscape is something I miss seeing these days, I do love the open air and space even if most of it is farm land. I feel that the modern city however brings you forward into the new world and the life it has to offer. Standing in the country side to some degree is more like being located in our past.
Grand canal theatre, Co Dublin
A very interesting personal issue raises it head here, why do I find the older cityscapes of Dublin or Kilkenny a little less interesting to photograph?
At some point the older architecture must have been modern and visually interesting; however somehow it’s just not personally as interesting. This is something I should explore and will come back to in another post.
Are we just draw to the new, the modern around us?
Grand canal quay, Co.Dublin
Do we need to be surrounded by the new in order to be driven forward; do we also have to personally respect those new things for the elements they contain?
City or Country
In summary – visually the country side offers a more fixed if not permanent view of the world for those who live in it, the modern city offers new visual challenges. The question that arises from this is, do we as people advance more if we live with new and modern or stand still with the old?
Grand canal quay, Dublin
Grand canal quay, Dublin
Grand canal theater, Dublin
Nigel Borrington
Tall ships race 2011
Waterford tall ships race, 2nd July 2011
Nigel Borrington 
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