May 2007

ballgarth Recenetly I visited a location I used to visit when I first started out taking pictures. The location is Ballygarth Castle on the banks of the River Nanny in County Meath. It’s a location I hadn’t been to in years despite it not being 10minutes from my front door. One of the joys of landscape photography is the small things you come across while trepasing around the countryside at un-godly hours of the morning.

For these images I was on location at 4.30a.m walking through a dew soaked buttercup meadow making my way to the banks of the river. As I got to my location I startled a fox resting on the banks of the river before the sun got up. Needless to stay he ran one way, and I took his vantage point. It is moments like these that make you glad you bothered to get out of the sack. Ballygarth Castle

With mist rolling down the river and the sun just about making its way above the horizon, it was hard not to be inspired by the scene.

At the river the tide was just beginning to turn this was my biggest problems. I wanted to get an image that excluded the ugly mud that was appearing on the rivers edge.

I took a few images both horizontal and vertical from a few different locations around the castle. Pleased with the experiences of the morning and hopefully a few images in the bag, I made my way back across the dew soaked meadow, for a shower and a trip back to the rat race.