Mastodawn

Lá Fhéile Pádraig in Fire and Light

We were standing across from Cobh in the park on Haulbowline Island to photograph the fireworks display over Cobh on St. Patrick's Day this year. With a camera on a tripod, timing a fireworks display is basically an exercise in optimistic guesswork. When I see the firework launch, I press the shutter button, hope a burst lands in frame, and try not to jostle the camera and tripod as the photo is taken. Sometimes if the burst is impressive I'll forget to take my finger off the shutter button […]

https://inphotos.org/2026/04/18/la-fheile-padraig-in-fire-and-light/

Donncha Ó Caoimh 7h ago

Lá Fhéile Pádraig in Fire and Light

We were standing across from Cobh in the park on Haulbowline Island to photograph the fireworks display over Cobh on St. Patrick’s Day this year. With a camera on a tripod, timing a fireworks display is basicall...

https://inphotos.org/2026/04/18/la-fheile-padraig-in-fire-and-light/

#BlarneyPhotographyClub #Cobh #Cork #CorkHarbour #fireworks #HaulbowlineIsland #Ireland #LáFhéilePádraig #LongExposure #NightPhotography #Photo #Photography #pyrotechnics #StPatrick'sDay

Donncha 1d ago

Where the Dingle Coast Meets the Swell

Clogher Beach in early March is not what you'd call hospitable. This little cove on the Dingle Peninsula opens straight onto the Atlantic, and the swell hits the slate head-on; the spray goes up twice as high as the wave itself. I was there with Blarney Photography Club, all of us strung out along the beach in heavy coats, pretending we weren't freezing. I kept the shutter short enough to freeze the break but long enough to let the water show some texture and pulled the exposure down a touch […]

https://inphotos.org/2026/04/17/where-the-dingle-coast-meets-the-swell/

Donncha Ó Caoimh 1d ago

Where the Dingle Coast Meets the Swell

Clogher Beach in early March is not what you’d call hospitable. This little cove on the Dingle Peninsula opens straight onto the Atlantic, and the swell hits the slate head-on; the spray goes up twice as high as the wave itself. I was there with Bl...

https://inphotos.org/2026/04/17/where-the-dingle-coast-meets-the-swell/

#Atlantic #BlarneyPhotographyClub #ClogherBeach #DinglePeninsula #Ireland #Kerry #LandscapePhotography #Photo #Photography #seascape #storm #waves

Donncha Apr 11

Gold on the Mountain at Gougane Barra

The cloud had been sitting on the mountains all morning like a hat pulled down over its eyes, and then for about fifteen minutes the sun broke through low and side-on and set the entire rock face above Gougane Barra on fire. The golds and ambers were almost absurd. It was the kind of light you'd dial back in post because nobody would believe it was real. Mist was still threading through the peaks, which gave the valley that layered depth you only get when the weather can't make up its mind. […]

https://inphotos.org/2026/04/11/gold-on-the-mountain-at-gougane-barra/

Donncha Ó Caoimh Apr 11

Gold on the Mountain at Gougane Barra

https://inphotos.org/2026/04/11/gold-on-the-mountain-at-gougane-barra/

#BlarneyPhotographyClub #Cork #GouganeBarra #Ireland #IrishLandscape #lake #LandscapePhotography #mist #MorningLight #mountains #Photo #Photography #ShehyMountains

Donncha Apr 10

The Lone Boat at O’Sullivan’s Cascade

There was a single boat on our little corner of the Lakes of Killarney. I'd walked down from O'Sullivan's Cascade to join other photographers from Blarney Photography Club. They were busy photographing the same scene you see here and everything around them. We were enjoying the afternoon sunlight on a calm October day last year.

https://inphotos.org/2026/04/10/the-lone-boat-at-osullivans-cascade/

Donncha Ó Caoimh Apr 10

The Lone Boat at O’Sullivan’s Cascade

There was a single boat on our little corner of the Lakes of Killarney. I’d walked down from O’Sullivan’s Cascade to join other photographers from Blarney Photography Club. They were busy photographing the same scene you se...

https://inphotos.org/2026/04/10/the-lone-boat-at-osullivans-cascade/

#Autumn #BlarneyPhotographyClub #Boat #bracken #Ireland #Kerry #lake #LakesOfKillarney #LandscapePhotography #O'Sullivan'sCascade #Photo #Photography #UpperLake

Donncha Mar 15

Waiting for the Light

Nothing sorts the casual photographers from the committed ones quite like an early morning alarm on a Kerry beach in March. This lot from Blarney Photography Club were out on Cappagh Strand before first light, tripods planted in the wet sand, hoods up, waiting for whatever the sky decided to offer.

The long exposure in the first shot turned them into ghosts which felt fitting, given how they were all standing perfectly still and barely speaking, the universal code of photographers who haven’t had coffee yet. By the time the clouds broke and the pink started to creep in, they’d fanned out along the rocks, each one finding their own angle on the same stretch of coastline. It’s a funny thing, watching people who spend their time making images become the image themselves.

Apertureƒ/8CameraILCE-7RM5Focal length24mmISO400Shutter speed25s