So I didn’t get nearly as many photos as I wanted as I was rushing to meet Bren, I will be heading back to take more, but for now heres some quick photos I took of the beautiful Trinity College Dublin.

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Earlier in the week I was lucky enough to come across the cygnets I had previously photographed with my film Nikon. (http://wp.me/s2ti61-129)

They’ve gotten so big since I last saw them, they are just too cute!

 Too cute

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This fountain was out in bren’s backgarden and after a getting in from a night out we decided it would be a good idea to take some pictures!

These are the results!

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Went for a wander around the beautiful Heritage Center in Wexford with Brendan! So much fun!

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Ive been away taking loads of photos so I havnt posted in a while.. But ive loads to post so there will be many many photos on the way!

Heres a few from a wander around the local woods around my house! Taken with my DSLR.

Enjoy

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Taken with my new DSLR

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Ive only had it a day so I haven’t had much time to photograph, but here is my first attempt at night time photography with it!

These last three photos are simply of a light shining on moving water, I think it looks like fire or something, its too cool

I’m still learning so these aren’t so great, but i love the camera!! Yay

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Me and Brendan went to Dublin zoo the other day!! Great day!

All photos were taken with the Film SLR

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Its been raining ALOT here over the past few days, so there was lots of lovely water droplets to take photos of! These are all taken down in Wexford with my Boyfriends DSLR. I changed the white balance on the last two photos as I think it give a really cool effect.

In addition to these photos I just got some more ones from my film camera developed! Interesting to compare them

I still think the film photography wins

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I was strolling through Stevens Green a few days ago with my camera and I was so lucky to catch these swans and there little baby cygnets having some lunch! Some of the photos are a teeney tiny bit blurry which is annoying but those little guys were moving a good bit!

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Some photos of nature from around my little town in Kildare

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Here are some photos!

You can prob see I was messing with the colour (white balance) on this last one.. I still have to decided which I prefer.. Im leaning towards the bluey hue’d photos.. More experimenting is needed!

Anyway, I’m hoping to start a photo a day project as soon as I get my own digital SLR, hopefully that will be sooooon!

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This is Little Bear  :)

Although I do love the oul film camera, I have been messing with my boyfriends digital camera too, I will post photos soooooon

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Yesterday after school I pumped up the tyres of my bike at the local petrol station (a very nearly embarrassing experience) and headed off for the hills. I took the bike out in the direction I usually walk, Northwest of my house. I got to the dog fence a lot quicker than usual, although I did have to push the bike a lot of the way due to the extremely rough terrain. I got to the usual ending point of my walk and looked around for a while. I love the country out here.

I followed the fence around, exploring new territory. Eventually I came across a road that led to the town dam. I hadn’t been along this way before and I decided that I would follow. The road was graded and much better than the rough tracks I had been following, but it presented it’s own problems. The sand was powdery and it was easy to get bogged in it, and as I went along there were more and more rocks to avoid.  Exhausted after a steep climb, I found a place to rest a while.

The road ahead.

I almost gave up and went back, the sun was setting and I didn’t want it to be dark when I was going home. Something was pushing me, though, and I couldn’t get past wondering what was over the crest ahead, and so I set off. Then it was the crest after that, until I was in a valley between steep hills with the setting sun lighting up the surface of the rocks.

Gorge at sunset

Here I stopped for a while, knowing that I should get home before it got too dark. I didn’t know how far away the dam was, but I didn’t want to risk pushing forward if I’d be trudging home at night. I looked at the hills opposite and saw kangaroos disappearing over the crest. (Well, really they could have been wallabies. I couldn’t tell.) Near the top of the steep incline I could see some caves. ‘Hm’ my brain went, ‘I wonder what’s up there.’

A cliff, of sorts. Not as cliffy as they come. Can you see the caves up near the top, along the ridge?

Next thing I knew my ‘stupid mode’ had kicked in and I was looking back down a pretty steep slope, coming to the realisation that I hadn’t told anyone where I was going. I was around 6km out of town, half way up a (glorified) cliff and there was no school the next day, so if something happened to me, nobody would really know I was gone till the day after. And I wasn’t wearing a helmet. Still, I was fairly confident in my ability to tackle that particular slope.

The view down, but not from the top. About half way up I think.

I reached the caves and was rewarded for my efforts with a somewhat gruesome scene. It was a wallaby graveyard of sorts. Nothing had died recently, but there must have been the skeletons of at least four of the things in there. I think they were Yellow-Footed Rock Wallabies, an endangered species found around my area.

The cave of dead wallabies.

There wasn’t much further to go to get to the top. I couldn’t just go back down….

A steep climb. Avoiding the spinifex was a priority.

I love climbing. It is the best feeling in the world. It’s like a puzzle, you’ve got to get it right, judge whether the rock is stable, avoid the prickly plants, make sure you keep your centre of gravity in close. I generally pick easy slopes, and this one wasn’t too hard as you can see.

When I got to the top it was a double win. I had climbed the cliff, and on the other side I could see the reservoir stretching out through the hills. I had made it to the dam! I was pretty happy, let me tell you.

View from the top- the reservoir

The distant cliffs

I found the light made it hard for me to get a decent photo, I’m still not great on my camera settings.

The view down the other way. Can you see my bike?

I took some more photos from the top looking in other directions. It was an amazing experience.

Cliffs at sunset

Well I saw that the road snaked around the hill I was standing on, and that it would a silly idea to go back down the way I came up. I decided I would walk along the ridge until I got to the road. But… then I climbed down anyway.

The way down.

There isn’t much more to it. I did stay out too late, the sunset glow quickly submerged into twilight. It was beautiful, but pushing the bike back up the hills was exhausting work. There were about three big ones- I’d push my way up, then coast down the other side, avoiding half-seen rocks.  Once I got through the hills it was a steady, only mildly terrifying ride through the semi-darkness. By the time I got home it was almost completely dark. I plan to invest on a light for my bike sometime soon, riding on an unfamiliar road in the dark is not one of my favourite things to do. I got home safe and sound, elated at the success of my expedition and feeling like I was on top of the world. I hope you enjoy my pictures!

Rain Droplets - When the stem welled up!!!

Camouflaged!!!

Lightning Struck!!!

I know it looks like a picture taken at twilight, but trust me i did capture what my garden would look like when under the lightning bolt.

Blissfully Cloudy...

Woke up this morning to realize there was something missing off our picnic table…  Our peanuts.  Where did they go?  To the woods.   The peanuts grew legs and dragged themselves into the woods.

The rascally rodent must have been pretty large as it took the peanuts off the picnic table, drug it through the gravel to the woods behind our camper where I found the discarded peanut container complete with claw and teeth marks.

There were holes all over the the container, but they didn’t get it open!

For homework:  link to  http://web20forstudents.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/week-3-assignments/

Osprey Nest at Pototo Creek State park.  This one was found on trail #3.  Too bad I didn’t see any Osprey!

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I think a polorizing filter could have helped a little.  I bought one this weekend and I can hardly wait to try it out!

For homework:  link to http://web20forstudents.wordpress.com/2011/09/21/week-2-assignments/

For homework:  link to http://web20forstudents.wordpress.com/2011/09/21/week-2-assignments/

Here I was, with one of my best friends Franceska, sitting on the swing. I tried amateur photography and it was quite amusing. I didn’t have the resolve to edit this so it remained as is.


These were taken at Jollibee. Mommy gave me some cash, so we went and got Bianca and I treated them, something I seldom do.

After that trek, Bianca went home because she had another appointment later that day, so Ceska and I went and spent hours in FunHaus. Truth be told, I totally missed playing video games, that’s what made it all the more fun. We were playing a variety of Fighting Games, oh yes, we love violence. (Chos!)


These were taken at the boulevard, my favorite place in Morong. It was the perfect spot to end the day. It was a good thing we left there when we did, otherwise we could’ve gott stranded in the darkness and the rain. That would really be deep shit specially since people seldom go there after the dun goes down.

And that concludes it. Honestly, I’d kill for days like this. Days wherein you’d be happy just spending time with the people close to you, without a care in the world. I hope to see another one of this before summer ends.