Photo Corner
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SuirCon 2024: Comic Con in Ireland’s oldest city, Waterford
Last year I fulfilled another photography dream, which was to photograph a local Comic Con. As usual, I want to share the photos and stories with you. SuirCon, as the Comic Con is called, is named after the River Suir which runs through Waterford. The first SuirCon was held in November 2018 and took a break during 2020-2021 due to Covid. We had never had a convention in the city before Suircon as far as I know. After last year’s Imagine Arts Festival, which you can read about here, I gained confidence and decided to try to photograph SuirCon. After all these years, it was finally time. SuirCon used to…
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Waterford Imagine Arts Festival 2024 through photographer’s eyes
Last fall, I had the unique opportunity to photograph one of the longest-running festivals in Waterford, the Imagine Arts Festival. The Imagine Arts Festival was first held in 2001 and was created for a simple reason – local artists felt that the city lacked an artistic platform. Nowadays, the festival runs for 1 week in October and the program includes live music, workshops, dance, exhibitions, theater performances and various tours. Each year has its own theme and a program is then put together accordingly, to which artists can send their proposals from the beginning of the year. Of all the festivals I have introduced to you so far, the Imagine…
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Photo Corner: Snowy Waterford 2025
Waterford is located in the south of the island and doesn’t snow here in winter. Except for 2010, 2018 and this January… When the weather forecast called for freezing weather for the first week of the year, I was hoping it would turn into snow again. This was first seen in the west and north of the island, and it arrived unplanned (the forecast never actually predicted snow for Waterford) on the afternoon of Sunday, January 5th. It was originally supposed to snow with rain, but when I looked out the window around 3pm, it was just snowing. At first I thought the snow wouldn’t stick to the ground, but…
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First visit of Frankfurt in Autumn 2023
Last fall, I visited the German capital for the first time, and even though it was originally supposed to be for a different reason, I ended up having my camera with me and I would love to share my photos and experiences with you! I looked at Frankfurt a few years ago, but I remember that it seemed too big and I was a little afraid to visit it. But don’t let the map fool you – the city center isn’t that big and you get to know it quickly. I experienced this for myself in mid-October 2023. Originally, my friends and I were supposed to go to the Fletcher…
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Photo Corner – Spraoi: Waterford Street Art Festival
Every year in the middle of summer, the streets of Waterford are filled with artists from all over the world performing their art, be it music, dance, acrobatics, theater or anything else. This is one of the biggest and in my opinion the best festivals in Waterford and in Ireland as a whole. The name Spraoi comes from Irish and means fun or revelry, which beautifully describes the festival itself. It takes place every year at the same time – the weekend over the public holiday in August (always the first Monday of the month). The festival has been running since 1993 and several dozen artists perform in it every…
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A park that is definitely worth a visit in Dublin: Kilmainham Park
During my short stay in Dublin in May I finally visited Kilmainham Park opposite Heuston train station. Kilmainham Park is located on the edge of Dublin city centre, opposite Heuston train station. Right next to it is Kilmainham Gaol, which contains a large piece of Irish history. The park is known for the IMMA – Irish Museum of Modern Art and also for the annual Forbidden Fruit festival, which this year was headlined by Nelly Furtado. What I did not know is that there is a park with a large green area, but right next to it there is a walled garden and the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, which nowadays houses…
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Photo corner: London during Fall 2022
Well, not visiting London is like not travelling at all. I don’t fly there that often, but in 2022 I was there twice and in the fall I purposely stayed longer so that I could take pictures of this iconic English city. I flew there in mid-November for the Within Temptation and Evanescence concert. Yes, the two bands played a concert together at The O2 and it was a blast. I was not in London alone, but with a friend. We stayed at the Good Hotel just outside Greenwich (the black little building on the left in the photo below). The hotel was pretty good, but I probably wouldn’t stay…
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Photo corner: Kilkenny town during a heatwave
I’m just saving the photos here from last year’s visit to Kilkenny at the end of August. Some of them still look great even after one-ish year, so I’m glad they turned out so well, because the sun wasn’t really shy that day. You could see most of the photos on my Instagram, but if the algorithm didn’t show them to you… I wrote about Kilkenny two years ago, if you don’t know which town it is – the article is here. There is a mishmash of everything – from the castle, street photos, nature and even street art. Enjoy! We are starting with the castle of course… …then let’s…
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Photo corner: Christmas in the Irish oldest city, Waterford
Only this year I realized that I have never really showed you Christmas in Waterford and especially our Winterval festival. So let’s do it! I will have a few photos here from the past years, but also from this year, when I focused more on details and on new points of view (after all, how many times can one take a photo of the same building to make it interesting every time?). All photos are taken over the last 4 years with my DSLR camera. The first two years I shot with my 18-135mm, last year and this year it is a mix of the aforementioned lens and 50mm. Winterval…
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Photo post: Sturgeon moon in August 2022
I’m catching up on last year’s photo shoots! Last summer, I joined the trend of almost all photographers and enthusiasts and decided to try to photograph the expected full moon. You must have watched it too, or at least later seen photos on the Internet. So you know the moon really showed off. I probably don’t have many photos with the wow effect, but I think they will pass for the first test. Feel free to let me know what you think in the comments 🙂 I first went to Tramore on Thursday, where I wanted to photograph the sunset (it didn’t work out, I arrived late) and then the…
