North Atlantic Skyline » friary http://johnsmyth.ie/blog Despatches from the West of Ireland. Fri, 18 May 2012 23:53:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 By the light of the moon http://johnsmyth.ie/blog/2010/12/21/by-the-light-of-the-moon/ http://johnsmyth.ie/blog/2010/12/21/by-the-light-of-the-moon/#comments Tue, 21 Dec 2010 13:35:41 +0000 John Smyth http://johnsmyth.ie/blog/?p=3249 Full Moon
I’m not having much luck with the weather this December when it comes to photographing the skies. Despite almost constant clear skies due to the cold weather, the odd night when there is cloud seems to coincide with something worth photographing. Earlier this month, my attempts to photograph the Geminids came to nought as the two nights when the meteor shower was visible were both cloudy. And this morning, despite driving around the outskirts of Galway to try to find a break in the cloud, I missed the lunar eclipse. I could see a thin sliver of moon at one stage through a snowcloud, but not enough to photograph.
The picture above was taken just after sunset yesterday, and the moon is vignetted by one of the windows of Ross Errilly friary, near Headford in Galway. The temperature was dropping quickly – it was -9 C by the time I took that image at 4.20 pm yesterday evening.

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Morning fog and dew highlights both the ruins of the Franciscan friary as well as a spider web in Kilconnell. Picture taken a few weeks ago.

Franciscan Friary at Kilconnell Gallery.

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Kilconnell Friary in east Galway, pictured last week. Click on the picture for a larger version.

Previous pictures of Kilconnell here, here, and a very old gallery that needs to be updated here.

Picture taken with a Canon 350D and Sigma 10-20mm lens. The camera has been modified by Lifepixel to shoot only infrared pictures.

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Kilconnell Friary, east Galway.

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