Around 10PM in Flatland

The archipelago in Finland is beautiful. It's rocky and shallow so you need to know the buoys and drive the boat accordingly. Finns have their summer cottages on islands and there are plenty of them too. Finland has nearly 188,000 lakes but I have always preferred the coast and the sea.
The photograph below would have been better if I had used a tripod but try to balance that in a moving motorboat bumping off the waves... I didn't even bother bringing the tripod with me on the boat trip.

A lovely tune to go with my photo can be found on the below youtube link.
Lasse Mårtensson - Myrskyluodon Maija
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuLkrDZq7OU&feature=related

Tourist information:
http://www.visitfinland.com/web/guest/fishing/waters/coast-and-archipelago/gulf-of-othnia;jsessionid=E620ED8FF3327090D7A24DD99870AF65.liferay011

Bumble bees

There are plenty of bumble bees in my parent's garden. Peacefully they gather nectar for hours. For some reason they all get stuck on the ugliest flowers when I would prefer them to sit for ages on bright blue, red or yellow flowers. I guess they go for the best quality nectar/pollen? They will collect nectar from pretty flowers too but they do it so quickly that I just can't keep up with my camera. I think I have to start thinking of buying a macro lense to get sharper photographs of close-ups.

First person to let me know what the name of the below flower is will get a photo! Biology is not one of my stronger points... :-)

Porvoo 18/07/2010

I've been on a 2 week holiday in Finland so I haven't been active on the blog. The weather was great and I visited places I've been to before but saw them with new eyes.

Below a few photos from Porvoo, a pretty town 50km east of Helsinki.

http://www.porvoo.fi/

Photo 2010

I have ten photos in the Photo 2010 exhibition which is open until 29/07/2010

Dublin City Library,
138 Pearse St. Dublin 2

Opening hours:
Monday to Thursday: 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM
Friday and Saturday: 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Photo 2010 is part of PhotoIreland Festival 2010
http://www.photoireland.org/




The photo on our poster is by Paul Timon

Studio session 11/07/2010

I was in the studio this afternoon with two models and make-up artist Lisa Smyth.
It was a great session with some experimenting with both make-up and light settings.

Gina:



Niamh:

Botanic Gardens 05/07/2010

Flowers again...

Pride Parade in Dublin 26/06/2010

I went to shoot the colourful Pride Parade on Saturday. It was the first time I've seen the pride parade. I expected a lot more people to dressed up or in fancy dress but I did come across a few characters! I have more photos if anybody that attended the parade is interested to buy some for a small fee. Contact details on the left.