Camera Life

Reflecting documentary photography

2011-03-31T16:58:00.001+01:00

Reflecting documentary photography, originally uploaded by Maiseydotes - on walkabout!.

A small number of the hoard of press photographers that descended on the funeral of Stephen Gately from Boyzone

Golden Moments

2011-03-21T16:50:00.001Z

The original of this image was colour which I converted to B&W. I then added two textures to the image. Applied a clipping mask to one texture and transformed that so I could place the glows in the texture where I wanted.

Proud Shamrock

2011-03-19T10:21:00.001Z

As a child every St. Patrick's Day our parents proudly wore springs of shamrock and bought each of their children a St. Patrick's Day badge which we wore along with the shamrock daddy pined to our clothes. It was tradition.

Buying shamrock in Dublin came neigh to impossible along with finding St. Parick's Day badges. I ended up the last few years buying GOAL badges in the shape of a shamrock. So good came out of my need for tradition, but it never felt quite the same.

We moved to the midlands last year and so this year I had the opportunity to go west and see the St. Patrick's Day parade in Galway. I stopped off at my local filling station and they had shamrock and badges for sale. I was transported! Buying both I proudly pinned them on and thought of my folks.

In Galway I noticed so many people proudly sporting shamrock, on shirts, jumpers, coats and caps.

I heard Hail Glorious St. Patrick being sung and my day for tradition was made.

Some traditions are too important to be allowed fade out.

HAIL, GLORIOUS ST. PATRICK (words: Sister Agnes / tune: ancient Irish melody, 1920)

Hail, glorious St. Patrick, dear saint of our isle,

On us thy poor children bestow a sweet smile;

And now thou art high in the mansions above,

On Erin's green valleys look down in thy love.

(optional repeat)

On Erin's green valleys, on Erin's green valleys,

On Erin's green valleys look down in thy love.

Hail, glorious St. Patrick, thy words were once strong

Against Satan's wiles and a heretic throng;

Not less is thy might where in Heaven thou art;

Oh, come to our aid, in our battle take part!

In a war against sin, in the fight for the faith,

Dear Saint, may thy children resist to the death;

May their strength be in meekness, in penance, and prayer,

Their banner the Cross, which they glory to bear.

Thy people, now exiles on many a shore,

Shall love and revere thee till time be no more;

And the fire thou hast kindled shall ever burn bright,

Its warmth undiminished, undying its light.

Ever bless and defend the sweet land of our birth,

Where the shamrock still blooms as when thou wert on earth,

And our hearts shall yet burn, wherever we roam,

For God and St. Patrick, and our native home.

Valentines Day

2011-02-14T12:30:00.000Z

I received a lovely e-card from my beautiful 6 year old niece for Valentines Day :-)) This Aunty is going around with a huge smile on her face. :-))

Birthday treat :-)

2011-02-08T16:54:00.002Z

Nothing like a birthday to go and give yourself a treat! I could not resist and spent all of €5.??, (can't remember the exact pennies) on what I hope will go a little way towards our summer supply of strawberries :-))

On the Prowl

2011-01-21T20:01:00.000Z

Our cat Mooch heading out.

007 & Irish Leprechauns

2011-01-20T12:00:00.002Z

Back in 1959 Disney made a film called Darby O'Gill and the Little People. Jimmy O'Dea, the Irish actor and comic played the King of the leprechauns. Sean Connery played the love interest of Darby's daughter. Whilst playing this role was spotted by Albert R. Broccoli who was casting for the first Bond film, Dr. No. You could say Connery found his pot of gold thanks to Darby. The rest is history.
Photo is of an act that was playing at the Ballinsloe Horse Festival 2010

Dance of the Leprechauns

Sean Connery

Watch Out!

2011-01-11T20:51:00.001Z

A Miracle? Feel Good Story 2

2011-01-06T21:23:00.001Z

Dropped many times, names reappears and it is all yours for only €500.00, yes €500.00... Pope John Paul II plate You just have to smile :-)

Feel Good Story 1

2011-01-06T11:02:00.000Z

In the time we live right now we all need a good luck / feel good story. Here is one. I just love it.

Looking Back on 2010

2011-01-03T19:31:00.002Z

Not in any particular order but some of my favourites from the past year.

The lads larking about in the yard.

Sisters and my great nieces

Harvesting

Dublin - Loopline Bridge

In August I was asked to take some wedding photographs.... The Flower Girl

The bride & groom

The Ballinasloe Horse Fair Waiting on The Off - Curragh Racecourse The quality here is not good but I was shaking as I took it and I asked too much of my lens. Seen in the field beside us, not sure if it is a Sparrow Hawk or a Peregrine Falcon. Any suggestions? I just love living in the countryside. Early morning training on the Curragh racecourse, Kildare. Winter arrives painting the countryside white 19 riders & racehorses on a winters snowy morning going to the gallops

New Year's Eve

2010-12-31T09:28:00.009Z

It's that time of year again. For the last couple of days I have been very emotional. I get like that at this time of the year and to be honest I dread it. I would rather sleep through, wake up tomorrow and just get on with it. For my son's sake I do try to put on a happy face, but deep down I can't get rid of the un-easy feeling that I carry. So I am thinking of Spring and all the pleasures that budding new life will have in store for me to see in our new home. Do I have a resolution? If I did it would be summed up in one word; Reconnect.

Frozen Canal

2010-12-30T20:37:00.000Z

Kilmainham Gaol

2010-12-30T20:05:00.009Z

Kilmainham Gaol (Jail) is a revered historic building that has been at the centre of Irish history since it was first built over 100 years ago. Kilmainham Gaol opened in 1864, during a period of Victorian prison reform and it is designed like Pentonville Prison in the UK. It is a 3 story high space surrounded by catwalks that the prisoners walked to their cells . Over the 128 years it served as a prison, its cells held many of the most famous people involved in the campaign for Irish independence. The British imprisoned and executed the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising here. This part of the gaol has been used as a location in many films; In The Name of the Father, Michael Collins, The Italian Job to name but a few.

I applied a basic Orton Technique to the image, desaturated a little and finally applied an ink line filter to it.

Further information - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilmainham_Gaol

Waning lunar eclipse over The Curragh Plains

2010-12-24T18:18:00.001Z

19 Horsemen

2010-12-24T18:10:00.001Z

2010-12-24T18:08:00.001Z

The 'back' garden

2010-12-08T23:53:00.000Z

2010-03-11T11:06:00.004Z

"........To you, once loved and for ever,

from whom I part

Not because fate is blind, or the heart cold,

But because the world is neither yours nor mine,

Not even ourselves, not even what is dearest,

I offer what I can, my living moment,

My human span"

Parting by Kathleen Raine

2010-02-22T09:53:00.000Z

Glorious Day

2009-08-28T12:52:00.002+01:00

My son exercising one of the horses in Meath

Concentration

2009-07-08T16:04:00.002+01:00

Concentration, originally uploaded by Maiseydotes.

My son and Alan putting a couple of the horses through their paces. The lads and their horses were as one....total concentration from all of them.

Tiny Dancer

2009-07-08T13:17:00.001+01:00

Tiny Dancer, originally uploaded by Maiseydotes.

Our beautiful 4 year old niece at her sister's First Holy Communion - May 2009

Stacks & Steeples - a Dublin Skyline

2008-08-12T20:47:00.001+01:00

Stacks & Steeples - a Dublin Skyline

Thornyhold

2008-08-01T11:18:00.001+01:00

I am delighted to say that one of my photos has been chosen for the cover of the latest novel by Mary Stewart. The publishers have sent the proof to me. There was a little desaturating done to the original and I think it looks great.

The Rotunda Dome, City Hall, Dublin

2008-08-01T11:06:00.003+01:00

This is the dome in the Rotunda of Dublin City Hall. It was completely refurbished between 1998 and 2000. Like the rest of the Rotunda the gold leaf was replaced. It still looks very bright and new, quite garish. I would have preferred if the gold-leaf could have been aged in some way...but defeats the purpose of the restoration I suppose :-) To really do justice to it I need a much wider lens, or I need to learn how to stitch some photos together.

".....if you would honour me then speak my name...."

2008-08-01T10:55:00.001+01:00

Balloons being released in remembrance of brothers, sisters, sons and daughters who died as babies and are buried in the Angels Plot, Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin. May 25th 2008

Celebrating Car Free Day in Dublin

2007-12-05T14:01:00.000Z

Stuart Townsend supporting Harpers For Tara

2007-12-05T13:54:00.000Z

Irish Actor Stuart Townsend now based in Hollywood and boyfriend of Charlize Theron was back in Dublin supporting the Harpers for Tara protest in Dublin.

Wexford Sunset

2007-12-05T13:52:00.001Z

Sunset opposite the house in Wexford

My Old Boarding School

2007-12-05T13:36:00.000Z

Myra, this is my old boarding school. Bottom left windows were the parlour rooms (formal reception rooms) of the school. When we were collected by our parents once or twice a term to go out with them it was referred to as 'parlour' meetings. Mum and Dad would be shown into one of the rooms and I would be called for. One of the girls would come looking for me and shout "Mary Parlour". I would run (should have been lady like and walked!)down the stairs and one of the nuns would tell me what room. I was only allowed to leave the convent when I was with Mum or Dad. This side of the convent over looked the gardens where there was a fountain and a statue of Our Lady. We were only allowed to walk around the statue when it was the 1st May or we were having a retreat and expected to walk around praying. Other than that this area was Nuns only! Top right windows were my cubicle windows in my new dorm when I first joined the school. The whole building has been converted into apartments.

Brenda & the Show Stallion

2007-12-05T12:26:00.000Z

This is Brenda who has been of great help and support to Eoghan. She is amazing!

2007-12-05T12:16:00.000Z

I left the picture large. It was pouring with rain and I was trying to hold the camera and an umbrella to protect the camera. This was up on the gallops, doing uphill training to get the horses fit for the forthcoming racing season.

2007-12-05T12:11:00.001Z

Just for you Myra, here is Eoghan training one of the horses, this horse won a couple of weeks ago!

Imaginosity Children's Museum

2007-08-10T18:59:00.000+01:00

The newest Children's Museum, I enjoyed the design, imagination and fun of the building, but where is the disabled/pram/buggy friendly entrance that according to law should be along side the able bodied entrance?

Harry Clarke Stained Glass Window

2007-07-07T21:43:00.001+01:00

Harry Clarke Stained Glass Window, originally uploaded by Maiseydotes.

The three-light stained glass crucifixion window behind the high altar of St. Joseph's Church, Terenure, Dublin.

My childhood church holds a very special place in my heart.

lavender_bed

2007-07-07T21:41:00.001+01:00

lavender_bed, originally uploaded by Maiseydotes.

Altamount House, walled garden, Carlow, Ireland.

beautiful_weed

2007-07-07T21:39:00.001+01:00

beautiful_weed, originally uploaded by Maiseydotes.

Adding colour to many a forgotten spot. Red Valerian, a perennial to be found on broken ground and walls.

The Blow up Band

2007-07-07T21:36:00.001+01:00

The Blow up Band, originally uploaded by Maiseydotes.

At the Meatloaf concert with my son. No flash photography just playing with the settings and lens on the camera.

Clonmacnois Monastic Settlement

2007-07-07T21:34:00.001+01:00

Clonmacnois Monastic Settlement, originally uploaded by Maiseydotes.

Easter Weekend, Ireland's oldest monastic settlement on the shore of the Shannon river.

Cahills Printer Works Fire

2007-07-07T21:29:00.001+01:00

Cahills Printer Works Fire, originally uploaded by Maiseydotes.

East Wall Dublin

The Lads

2007-07-07T21:25:00.000+01:00

Taken at Cahills Printers Fire.
These lads were giving the Traffic Guard a woeful time trying to get under the tape.
They were very funny and kept asking me to take their photos.

2007-07-07T20:44:00.000+01:00

Arbour Hill, Dublin.
The last resting place of the Leaders of the 1916 Rising.
This is part of the monument that commemorates their resting place.
The proclamation was signed by them and it was for this and leading the rising that they were executed.

2007-05-18T14:14:00.000+01:00

Orton Technigue applied to a photograph of a glade in the Botanical Gardens, Dublin

ouch

2007-02-26T16:47:00.001Z

ouch, originally uploaded by Maiseydotes.

Favourite place to take photographs of swans is a little harbour in Bray. Co. Wicklow.

These guys can hurt one another!

Flickr

2007-02-26T16:42:00.001Z

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Newspapers

2007-02-25T22:41:00.000Z

My Parents had one of these newspaper holders which hung outside their shop everyday of my childhood. I remember, I had to fold the papers and slide them onto it.

Balloons too..

2007-02-08T18:07:00.000Z

and balloons :-)

Birthday Flowers

2007-02-08T18:06:00.000Z

Birthday Flowers

2007-01-01T20:39:00.000Z

Sean O' Casey Bridge, Dublin

Port Tunnel or not...

2007-01-01T20:37:00.000Z

Port Tunnel or not, here we come...

Christmas Evening

2007-01-01T20:30:00.000Z

Christmas evening, I took a quick snap of Eoghan exploring his present. We got him an iBook. The screen of the laptop I bought Dad a few years ago is bang smack in the middle of the photo :-) Peter is now using that one.

2007-01-01T20:23:00.000Z

Experimenting with exposure. I did a series of photos. I wanted to make the backround dark, nearly black so that the colours of the candles and the flames would come through.

See Maw, I did clean my Teeth

2006-12-17T21:34:00.000Z

See Maw, I did clean my teeth

Tuckered Out

2006-12-17T21:32:00.000Z

Eoghan

2006-12-17T21:29:00.000Z

Crib

2006-12-17T21:27:00.000Z

My family crib. My Uncle Bill, made this crib when I was a child and it has been the crib we have used every year since. When Dad passed on, I have kept that tradition going.

Joe & Anna Rose

2006-12-17T21:26:00.000Z

Susan & Anna Rose

2006-12-17T21:25:00.000Z

Dundrum Crossroads

2006-12-17T21:20:00.000Z

Another Generation

2006-12-17T21:19:00.000Z

Happy Bunch

2006-12-17T21:18:00.000Z

Some of the Gang

2006-12-17T21:16:00.000Z

Surprise Dad

2006-12-17T21:14:00.000Z

2006-12-17T21:13:00.000Z

What a difference a year can make when a teenager. Ye Gods the height of Eoghan now compared to this photo.

Winter Hanging Basket

2006-12-17T19:28:00.000Z

Exchange Building

2006-03-16T14:29:00.000Z

Exhange Building Reflected

ClockWork Blue

2005-09-18T13:08:00.001+01:00

Fiddling around with Photoshop.

2005-09-11T17:33:00.000+01:00

All my life I worshipped her Her golden voice, her beauty's beat How she made us feel How she made me real And the ground beneath her feet And the ground beneath her feet U2 – “The ground beneath her feet” The U2 offices in Dublin

U2

2005-09-11T17:32:00.000+01:00

Paying homage to U2

Burgeoning Horseman

2005-03-17T22:16:00.000Z

Burgeoning Horseman 17 03 05

Snowy_Beauty

2005-02-27T20:51:00.000Z

We had a lot of snow recently, this is one of the plants in my garden.

2005-02-12T19:39:00.000Z

Small Tortoiseshell butterfly. Common and familiar in gardens between March - October.

Don't wake me too early!

2005-02-12T19:35:00.000Z

Beautiful colours, shame about the voice ;-)

Mountain Road

2005-02-12T19:29:00.000Z

A road across the Feather Bed, an area between the Dublin and Wicklow mountains that is mainly bog.

Spring Day

2005-02-12T19:22:00.000Z

Sugar Loaf Morning

2005-02-09T11:23:00.000Z

Love

2005-02-09T11:22:00.000Z

Coming In

2005-02-09T11:21:00.000Z

Feeding Time

2005-02-09T11:20:00.000Z

Flying Low

2005-02-09T11:17:00.000Z

Pretty Maids

2005-02-09T08:52:00.000Z

New Season Cometh

2005-01-26T06:44:00.000Z

Dogs Dinner

2005-01-08T10:38:00.000Z

Dogs dinner :-) Christmas 2004

Christmas Morning

2005-01-08T10:30:00.000Z

Christmas Morning Enniskerry Co Wicklow 2004

Nature's Tricks

2005-01-08T10:26:00.000Z

Nature's Tricks January 2005

She never! I swear!

2005-01-02T15:36:00.000Z

Foals at the Irish National Stud Kildare

Dockside

2005-01-02T15:26:00.000Z

Christmas Morning Swim

2005-01-02T13:13:00.000Z

Christmas Day 2003, missed taking it this year due to snow :-)