Galway fest

Program for the film festival is out!

Check out Glass if your about the festival on Sunday. Its going to be an early one!

Awesome times

Its been a pretty hectic few weeks, first time I have sat down to organize shots. They nearly feel old at this stage.

These first few were from a day a while ago where we scored pretty good. You know when you get two sessions before lunch your onto something good.

Perfect light, wind and waves are rare in summer but it does happen! Spent the rest of this day pretty much passed out asleep for being up so long and swimming so much, definalty worth it though. Got some amazing jelly fish shots im really happy with, (will have to wait for the website to put them ones up). This shot under is Mairead in a dress she really liked. We went on pretty much a 10 minute photo shoot due to crazy weather patterns. Was quite fun shooting while watching the rain about to belt down on you. Throw a bend of a main road with bad visibility into the mix and you have a pretty fun photo shoot. More shots from this morning to follow.

This whitehorse in Kennys is a pretty old one now but certainly was a good one. This two piece shown bellow, Hat fitz and Cara Robinson, was the best gig I have seen in ages. Aussie/Irishy bluegrass for life.

From Kennys I went down to Limerick to screen Paddy Mulcahy's new music video for girl of the mountain. We put on a music video night in the newly reopened wicked chicken with films from Shane Seranno (fox Jaw) walter mitty, benoit and a few more. Paddy and Ben also played sets. Was a good night bar the three hours it took us to set up, we learned a lesson that night, Iron the sheet your using as a screen before hand. Myriam ended ironing it about 30 minutes before the show!

The day after we left Limerick for Dublin to go to another emerald screening of Tuesday. Here are a few bad ass limerick city pigeons myriam and myself meet on our way.

Setting up for the screening (photo by Myriam)

Got back to lahinch where I got to actually go surf for a few days. Went shooting with ollie on a pretty nice evening just before the weekend.

Spent the weekend in Paris on a quest to rescue a guitar I had left there a year ago, felt it was time to bring it home. Will have photos up from that adventure soon.

Big post to come.

Burying your life

This is definitely the crankiest I have ever been going to a photo shoot. The only other shoot that I can think of that I was cranky on was some day last summer when friendly old Ray Foley climbed up on an island just to say hello but I was having none of it. He doesn't let me forget it so I reckon that is why its in my head so vividly.

This was a shoot Myriam and I did a few months back for college. We needed to shoot it in a swimming pool due to time constraints and visibility issues which led us to a very early morning shoot. I'm normally a massive fan of early morning shoots but this morning I was not Mr. motivated. This mood quickly changed however when I met an enthusiastic Myriam waiting at the pool.

We shot for about an hour with the increasing worried looks sensed from swimmers caused by the man with the camera in the deep end. We had got the shots we needed plus a few underwater Jim shots so we called it a morning.

On a warm water note, taking photos without the cold Atlantic kicking you in the head is much easier for composition!

The finished product.

Lots happening

Lots going on. Massive post to follow in the next day or two.