Monday, February 9, 2009

Stream

Another one while I'm here albeit with a bit of colour this time. This one was taken back in April, 2007 in my dad's back garden. Yeah he has a stream running through it. This was the first time I'd ever used a tripod which was essential seeing as it's a 3.2 second exposure.

stream

The Poison Glen, Donegal

To very different views of the same area. The first is looking across at the Poison Glen from most of the way up Mt Errigal and the other is of a small stream on the side of Mt Errigal. There's a lot of great stories of how the Poison Glen was so named but in I'm told it's just another dodgy Anglicisation of an Irish place name and has nothing to do with the area being poisoned. Still it's a stunning area that should be visited if you get the chance.

the poison glen
(This looks way more impressive viewed larger.)

stream on mt errigal

Bull Island, Dublin

Seeing as I'm not up to much at the moment I thought I'd stick up another post even if the photos do happen to be from last summer. They were taken around Bull Island just North of Dublin City.

ringsend towers

towers and beach

wooden bridge bull island

They were all shot with the 50mm 1.8 lens and treated in photoshop using the alien skin plug in which I swear by for black and white stuff. For full details you can click on the picture and check the more properties feature on flickr.

Sunday, February 8, 2009

Sexman III

sexman 4 -1

This was taken when these guys were known as Sexman 4. The guys play some sorta deranged punky acoustic stuff. I reckon Decky is one of the best front men around and the other two are legends in their own right as well. As usual you can hear their stuff on myspace.

"Batter your leaders" is the highlight for me.

Saturday, February 7, 2009

Ended and Bacchus

Some pics of two great bands in the world of Irish hardcore. Ended are fairly straight up hardcore while Bacchus are more in the epic crust vein. You can check out their myspaces: Bacchus ; Ended.

First time taking gig pictures with my 17-35mm lens, really happy with it so far.

Ended.
ended 2

ended 1

Bacchus.
bachus 3

bachus 2