Ancient Trees Reenroe Beach Ballinskelligs

Reenroe beach tree stump

The recent stormy weather shiftet the sand on Reenroe beach and exposed a group of ancient trees. Apperently the trees are 4000 years old. The light today encoureged me to take some detail photos of the roots and the grain of the sea washed grain.
The photos were taken with a 50 macro lens and a Canon 5d mkII
©Michael Herrmann 2014

Muckross Park, Greenhouse. Killarney

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The greenhouse in Killarney´s Muckross Park always made some impression on me as a nice piece of architecture. Durind my recent workshop I took a few photos around the building and was quite happy with the results as the images show some character of the building and its purpose. The reason I´m showing the photos here is more to demonstrate how many different angles you get when you work with passion on a particular theme. Its always beneficial to keep things simple, all photos were taken with a Canon 5d mkII and a 50mm lens. I´ve used the live view feature for some shots and all photos were taken freehand with almost open aperture.
If you approach a photo subject next time, take  a bit more time to look and try to visualise how your photo is going to look like. Forget all the technical stuff and just enjoy colours, shapes and light. You´ll get different photos, promised.

Worldwide Photo Walk Ballinskelligs 2010

22 enthusiastic people came today to Ballinskelligs for the World Wide Photowalk 2010.
We had a couple from England, one couple and a single man from Germany and the Irish of course coming as far as from Cork and Athlone. The weather looked a bit dull when we met but everybody was in a great mood anyway and happy to discover Ballinskelligs Bay with the camera. We walked down the road and after about 5 minutes everybody just started taking pictures.
All kind of wild flowers are growing near the road, like Fuchsia, Meadowsweet and  Montbretia. We reached Ballinskelligs Pier after 15 minutes and the old boats and anchors became the favorite subject of the photographers.
From there we went to the Old Abbey with the Old Burial Ground, the place where the monks from Skellig Michael  settled when they had to leave the monastery on the Skellig Rock.
The weather was getting better, two fisherman were trying to get some bass near the shore and one of the ladys walked right in to the sea to take some pictures of the seaweed - there is no genius without passion!
Then we arrived at Ballinskelligs Castle, for some in our group the very first time visiting the exposed and very interesting place.
It was time for a coffee in Barbara´s Café and most of us took the short cut across the river.
I think everybody was delighted to take part in this wonderful  event, I certainly met some nice people and I´m looking forward to see their photos of the day.
Thank you all so much,  for making it a fantastic experience.

Portmagee Pier in January

Who says that January is not a good month for taking Outdoor Photographs?
This past month has given us exceptionally good opportunities to capture clear light and with that strong colours and deep shadows, ideal for any kind of photography, really.
One of my favourite haunts, Portmagee Pier, with its fishermen´s gear was interesting as usual.
Colour and shape,  light and shadow, all coming together to a feast for the eyes.
It was almost picture book constellations for practising photography tasks like composition, depth of field or trying to tell a story with some unusal view of well known subject.
Well, we enjoy Portmagee in Winter...
The next Weekend Photography Workshops here in Portmagee will be held on

• 6th-7th February 2010 and on
• 13th-14th March 2010

If you are interested, check out the details on my website www.skelligphototours.com or contact me (above), see you...