71/365 Shutter release challenge

Thought about what should today’s Photo, some days its just the image that counts. Others I like to put a meaning behind it. It could be something said or an action by someone or thing. So by the time I got in tonight it was dark, I took a walk around the outside of my mothers house. Armed with a flashlight and camera I noted the little things she had gathered up over the years. Using flash I shot a few off these out door ornaments .

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While looking through the photos, it showed the love and care a parent has when bring us up through our young live’s. In the Owl is the wisdom that we receive from them. The bird, the love and care we are given with nothing asked in return.  The gnome represents all the hard work and labour over the years in tending and supplying to our living and educational needs. The sleeping Mole, all the nights we slept while our parents watched over us through illness and injuries. Perhaps it’s just me getting older and seeing things that are not there. Tonight when I roll over to sleep, I will think of the little Mole. The times my parents missed there sleep, never to complain. So I would like to thank my parents for the love they gave.

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I’m lucky my folks are still around and I still have the chance to return their love and kindness.

 

70/365 Shutter release challenge

Out for a walk in Donadea Forest Park in County Kildare Ireland, a damp day cool day.  A lot of families use the park, feeding the ducks, walking the dog having a picnic or just grabbing a coffee in the magical tea shop. So walking around the small lake I came across a tree, some might say it is a forest park and trees are all around. This is a special tree, a tree where the child’s pacifier/dummy’s goes when they are ready to give them up. Here is a photo from the Dummy Tree.

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Think of all the hours off comfort on this branch, , I wonder if the children ever return to see the special place where they left it.

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69/365 Shutter release challenge

Can’t help myself when it comes to the view from the garden, so today the light was beautiful and I can’t help it. so it’s another view from our garden.

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Hope you enjoy the view has much I do. Thank you for viewing.

PS. If you look closely in the tree on the right hand side, you will see a black and white bird. This is a Cormorant a large sea bird.

67/365 Shutter release challenge

1st Presbyterian Church

Here is a night shot of 1st Presbyterian Church in the town of Saintfield, County Down, Ireland. It was built in 1777 on the old site of the original church which lost it’s roof during a severe wind storm on Christmas Eve 1775.  The minister, Rev. Thomas Leslie Birch formed the County Down Society of the United Irish Men and  he also took part in the 1798 Rebellion.

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Battle of Saintfield

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66/365 Shutter release challenge

Another late evening in work and left wondering what to photography for today’s challenge. With a cup of tea in hand and sitting thinking it hit me, well not to hard. My cup, there’s nothing like a wild cuppa tea to help a person relax. So meet my cup, Wild Thing.

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Like people it’s not the cup that’s important but what’s within. Like a nice cup of tea, you can enjoy it for what it is. Same with people enjoy them for what they are, not what you wish them to be or how you label them. You can’t enjoy my tea, but you can enjoy what’s in my cup.

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63/365 Shutter release challenge

Parallel World

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This was the view using a 17mm lens across Lough Sillan in County Cavan, Ireland today. The water was a mirror finish with out a ripple, I have never seen the lough so still. This photo does not do it justice, but it was a quick grab shot on my way to an appointment. Would have loved to spent the afternoon exploring the lough. Another day will come.

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61/365 Shutter release Challenge

So the last day off 2015 is here and a new album starts tomorrow for 2016. That’s the first two months of the 365 challenge over and I am looking forward to the next ten. There will be a few hard months ahead before the weather brightens up and the days lengthen, opening up new opportunities and new subjects. So here’s today’s photograph, a style I don’t normally do but it’s the last day off the year.

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Max in HDR

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