Yearly Archives: 2008

Slane Castle Wedding

Just thought I’d add some recent photos from a wedding where the reception was held in Slane Castle. A very interesting location, with lots of memorabilia around from the many open-air concerts held there in Summers gone by. First the view of the front : The entrance hallway, with the wedding cake in the centre....

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Another Wet Summer

Well, now that we’re well into the Autumn, I have to say that this has been an even wetter Summer than last year – which I thought was bad. Fortunately, it’s still possible to produce good wedding photographs in bad weather, and it hasn’t spoiled any of the weddings I’ve photographed this year. However, many...

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Dun Laoghaire Festival of World Cultures – 2008

I acted as a volunteer photographer for the festival this year – as well as shooting a wedding at the weekend (images later). I like to support the festival and have worked in the information office previously. Here are a few pictures to give you a flavour of the weekend : Orchestre National de Barbes...

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Wedding Tradition – exchange of coins

It used to be a tradition for the Bride and Groom to exchange coins, to serve as a symbol of sharing their worldly goods (as well as ensuring continued prosperity). I haven’t seen it very much in recent Weddings, but these 2 coins were exchanged by the Bride and Groom in a recent ceremony. It’s...

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Word Pictures

OK, so this isn’t quite a photograph, but it’s interesting anyway. I generated this using a site called Wordle It allows you reference a web page or paste in some text, and it generates one of these “Word Clouds”. You can do some tweaking and just keep generating new ones until you find one you...

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Salvador Dali

I was in Northern Spain a while back – Catalunya. Spent some time visiting places associated with Salvador Dali. Whatever you might think about his art, he certainly had a vivid imagination. Here are a few photos I took : The first two are from his house in Portligat. He had a bit of an...

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