Bear, our new puppy. And Heidi!

We got a new boxer pup on Saturday. He's a little beauty, we called him Bear. Here's a few pics of himself, Heidi and her teddy. Bear is just over 8 weeks old and Heidi is 3 in July. Good for testing out the f/1.4 lens I got a while back, I hadn't really used the lens at all. Great for the shallow depth of field. Wide open it really knocks the background back. For the teddy shot, I tried bouncing some sunlight back onto him from the shed in the garden. Worked out well!

Connemara Photo Trip

I haven't posted on here in along time. Connemara is a place I have wanted to visit for a while and eventually got around to doing so. Here's the best of the pictures I took while on a trip up there in mid July, I only got around to sorting these now. It was one of the nicest places I've been to, a dream for anyone who loves photographing landscapes. It's just so beautiful, wild and isolated. Such a contrast to Dublin! I definitely plan on visiting again in the near future. I was lucky with the weather I got, there was a nice mix of cloud and clear sky which allowed the sun to have a nice dappled effect over the landscape in some photos. This is especially visible on the Twelve Bens mountain range which dominate the Connemara landscape.