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21 Tuesday Mar 2017

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Meeting new people and connecting through creativity is one of the #jjcommunitys aims, to help with that they offer support and advice in how to perfect your Instagram and use the tools available to you.

So on Saturday, on the mystery tour, we lernt about some of the challenges a street photographer has: light, movement, unknown territory, spotting the moment before it passes and sometimes, with the help of a smile, asking for a strangers permission to photograph them.

The CEO of #jjcommunity Kevin Kuster led the group I was in through the drizzle of Galway and gave us a few challenges along the way. One challenge was to approach a stranger and take their portrait.

Never one to shy away from the unknown I took the challenge on and began to look for someone a little bit special. I saw a stunning woman across the road and drawn in by her colourful clothes and true Irish complexion I stopped her in her tracks. She was in a bit of a hurry but agreed to my proposal and I was rewarded with theses lovely portraits on a beautiful woman from Galway – Aisling: a full-time nurse and part-time model.

Aisling

Weekly Photo Challenge: Close Up

26 Sunday Jul 2015

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It is amazing how our point of view changes how we see things, and I find it it intriguing how when we change our angle or distance what we see transforms before our eyes.

inside St Peter's Basilica

inside St Peter’s Basilica, Rom

reda composter up close, Mud Island (Dublin)

inside SO36

a light fixture in SO36 (Berlin)

Weekly Photo Challenge- Symbol

14 Tuesday Jul 2015

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Symbols are things that stand for something else, sometimes in very obvious ways, sometimes a little more hidden and sometimes only a select few know what it means. And sometimes one symbol can mean very different things for several people.

But no matter where you look we are surrounded by symbols everyday – some of us even wear them as jewellery or have them embedded in our skin in ink.

As a writer, for me, the most important symbols are letters. Each one holds the key to different meanings and when arranged and rearranged they spell out emotions, ideas, instructions, information and stories.

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

English Poet John Donne (1572-1631)

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Muse

27 Saturday Jun 2015

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Recently my life has been filled with muses and all be cause of a project I took part in.

My good friend Dragana Jurisic, who is currently skipping around Paris working on her new project “My own Unknown”, recently decided to capture 100 Muses on film, photograph women as they are, not as the world deems them to be.

So Dragana invited 100 women from all walks of life, all ages and all body types to join her in her photo studio and show themselves in their naked glory – no retouching, no makeup, no hiding.

So while I may not have taken these photos, I am one of the muses and through it am discovering what muses are all about, and I wrote about my experience of being one in photographic session.

You should treat a muse like a fairy

Paulo Coelho

100 Muses by Dragana Jurisic

100 Muses by Dragana Jurisic

 

 

 

 

Weekly Photo Challenge: On the Way

30 Saturday May 2015

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What an apt title for the next coming days, as I will be on the way, half way around Ireland.

Today I will be heading down to Galway and beyond, to a hotel on Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way. After a night of fun and frivolities (so I’m told) with a good friend to celebrate her birthday I will be driving down to Killarney and a hotel by a lake on Sunday. Again to spend time with a  friend who is celebrating her first book being published.

I can’t wait to see what I will find “on the way”, but my camera is charged and I am sure by the time I am back on Wednesday I will have seen lots and experienced even more.

So for now I leave you with a few images I took while on the way to somewhere or other:

left behind on the path

left behind on the path – on the way from Kreuzberg to Friedrichshain in Berlin

on the way back to the hotel in Lisbon

on the way back to the hotel in Lisbon

on the way up the Atlas mountains in Morrocc

on the way up the Atlas mountains in Morocco

On the way back to St Petersburg

On the way back to St Petersburg

on the way to a trip on the Alster in hamburg

on the way to a trip on the Alster in Hamburg

 

 

Weekly Photo Challenge: Ephemeral

28 Saturday Mar 2015

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Ephemeral is a beautiful word and originates from the Greek word ephemer meaning to last but only a day. In English we use it to describe fleeting moments, those transient instances that change  too quickly.

Nature uses those ephemeral times to recreate, to transition from life to rebirth, from full bloom to seed capsules that are filled with future promises.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Fresh

23 Monday Mar 2015

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FRESH what a lovely word for a monday morning. In the English language we use the word ‘fresh’ in many ways:

fresh as a daisy – when we mean full of live and awake – fresh start , when we mean new beginnings – a breath of fresh air, we use both in the literal but also when we mean someone or something is bringing new thoughts and ideas, new life into a situation and getting fresh with someone means someone is being impertinent or bold.

At the beginning of this fresh new week I feel like making fresh starts on some of my projects and ideas, look at things with a fresh pair of eyes and breath some fresh air into them.

With that in mind I think I will be needing some re-‘fresh’ -ments and a bunch of fresh flowers on my table to brighten my days with some fresh colours!flowers

Weekly Photo Challenge: Dialogue

30 Saturday Aug 2014

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This week’s Photo Challenge was set by Swiss-based architect and photographer Frédéric Biver (fakeormistake).  He is asking for two images that are in DIALOGUE with each other and explains:  “dialogue in photography can be perceived as a consensual interaction between two images. Placed next to each other, each photograph opens up to meanings that weren’t there when viewed alone. Each composition reveals the photographer’s specific sensitivity to certain content or visual elements.”

While going through some of my photos for this specific challenge, I noticed that several motives keep coming up, one being lifebuoys. Dublin is situation by the sea, water is always present and always a potential danger. So no matter if you are walking the streets of Dublin or wandering on the beach you’ll always find these reminders.

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