Photographers – Think Differently..
Still cold here with a wind that would cut through you. But it was dry and the sun was out. So took a half hour drive over to the coast on the County Down. With the tide and wind sculpting the sand around the rocks I got these before a rain shower blew in.
After this was shot the rain started and I watched the first day of the year get overtaken by the dark.
Thank you for visiting,
George
This time last week I was digging the snow from the drive, taking photo’s in the snow. A week later and bar the mountains the snow is gone, well for now. Here in Ireland the weather can change in an hour. With a cool breeze and sunshine that gave no heat I headed for the coast. With heavy rain showers and a bitter wind I sat with a coffee and watched the bird life feeding in the mud flats left has the tide receded. With the return of the no heat sunshine I grabbed the camera’s and went for a walk. Below are a few of my shots from the day.
Relax now this is the only bird shot this week, a couple of Redshank’s feeding around the mud flats.
Fishing boats and one of the markers at the mouth of Strangford Lough. In the back ground is the Isle of Man, Looking closer because of the use of a telephoto lens.
Kilclief beach looking the Irish sea towards the Isle of Man on the horizon.
Then I spotted this, photo below.
Parked in the wrong spot…. the colour of the toy car caught my eye on the walk back.
It was the sun hitting the seaweed and lichen on the rocks that drew me to this photo.
My final one of the day.
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Enjoy your weekend.
George.
Went to bed Thursday night and the fields were green, woke Friday and the place is white. First snow of the year and it was evening before I could get time to head out of a walk around the local roads. There’s not a lot of great shots around here with it being just grazing and most of the old buildings pulled down and new homes replacing them. The one weekend it would have been great to be free I’m busy, snow just won’t last more that a few days here. Anyway back to a few photo’s.
Beside these trees there was a lovely old ruin, a home from over around 200 years ago with a little history.
Scroll down the page in the above link to read the story of this spot.
Not much traffic here.
Above details and textures.
Winter sun.
These next Photos I caught at the last minute and were shot to be silhouettes has I metered off the black bird with spot metering against the bright sky.
This next shot is not something I do often but I enjoyed creating this. It was taken down by one of the many small lough’s we have around here.
And we have some visitors here at the moment, Redwing’s migrate here for the winter along with the Fieldfare both members of the Thrush family.
Above this is the Fieldfare.
The Redwing is the one in the foreground.
The next set of Redwing photo’s see the bird spit out a Hawthorn seed from the berries they were feeding on.
Did not know till I process these photo’s I had caught this, all the bird shots where taken with a 600mm and chopped in production. One more to go.
In this photo we have three Fieldfare’s and one Starling, So spot the odd one out.
Thank you for visiting and take care.
George.
Early morning walk
With the early morning sun and the dampness from the night still in the air I caught my old friend here in the wet grass with the low sun giving a reflective quality to the shot. Nothing beats an early morning walk on a morning like this.
Glad you could join me.
George McNeill Photography 
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