STRANDHILL SURF FOLK PHOTO EXHIBITION COMING SOON

Strandhill Surf Folk, a portrait exhibition featuring 80 people who surf and live in & around the Strandhill and Sligo community is coming soon to the National Surf Centre in Strandhill village. Watch this space for further details about dates and an opening evening. Almost a year to the date when I first started photographing...

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HEADSHOTS SLIGO

Business headshots? Headshots for politicians? Political portraits for an upcoming local election? It’s 2024! And it’s the perfect time to start off the year with an updated headshot. When was your last one? Does it even still look like you? There’s a time & a place for selfies…your business profile isn’t one of them! Professional...

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BEHIND THE IMAGE WEDDING STORIES

A classic wedding image at this stage, but for anyone who hasn’t seen it, here’s a bit of background to it! So I was photographing Vanessa, the bride, and her relatives, getting the looking at me, classic family photo. Done in a couple of seconds as always. I simply stepped aside then to let some...

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BEHIND THE IMAGE WEDDING STORIES

I was a Formula 1 photographer in another life (almost 20 years ago, feels like another life at this stage!!) so I’ve photographed a few champagne moments…Fernando Alonso, Michael Schumacher etc on the podium! But it’s during wedding mornings that I’ve nearly been taken out by flying champagne corks, on more than one occasion!! On...

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BEHIND THE IMAGE WEDDING STORIES

Photographing the bride walking up the aisle is one of the most pressured shot of a wedding day. Due to all sorts of circumstances, we’re usually running a little late, so that’s pressure enough, but camera settings have to be set very quickly, on two cameras to capture different focal lengths – I work on...

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BEHIND THE IMAGE WEDDING STORIES

Photographing every wedding morning is different, sometimes there’s a lot going on, sometimes not as much. There’s moments to be captured…they are everywhere, your photographer just needs to be able to anticipate them, see them before they happen, then press the shutter button at the right moment. Having photographed around 550 or so wedding mornings,...

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BEHIND THE IMAGE WEDDING STORIES

Weddings in Strandhill are different, depending on the which church is the venue! St.Anne’s COI has one of the nicest pathways for the bride to walk up to the church. Parking underneath a tree canopy, the bride & her dad will pass through the little gate at the ancient wall almost in complete darkness before...

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BEHIND THE IMAGE WEDDING STORIES

Photographing Irish weddings since 2007 means I’ve shot a lot of church weddings, and as most reading this will know, Irish church weddings typically last around 1 hour. This means after the processional and vows, I have a lot of time to watch, observe and see what documentary shots I can capture, all while being...

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BEHIND THE IMAGE WEDDING STORIES

This is a wedding photography blog series to open 2024…to get into my mindset on how I see and capture some images taken in 2023 and 2022! Some stories might be longer than others…some photos might be spur of the moment, turn around click the shutter move on! Find out here – Behind The Image!...

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