Steve MApr 25, 201910 min66 Hours - The conceptIn this book I have combined photographs with extracts from poems, song lyrics and the accounts of the men involved given to the local...
Steve MApr 18, 20192 min66 Hours - The Kilmore lifeboatAfter the photographic description of the journey taken by the Helen Blake, your attention is drawn to The Sisters; the Kilmore lifeboat....
Steve MApr 18, 20192 min66 Hours - Chapter 2After the first Chapter which concerns the story of the Mexico and is told by her Captain - Ole Edwin Eriksen, we move on to a Chapter...
Steve MApr 18, 20191 min66 Hours - an introductionThe lifeboat Helen Blake with its crew of fourteen set to sea from Fethard, Co. Wexford in a howling gale and torrential rain with only...
Steve MApr 17, 20191 minAbout - Slade #2This limestone rock arch called Solomon’s Boat is located just South of Slade harbour. This composition is really quite straightforward...
Steve MApr 17, 20194 minPerception and the Photographer As I mentioned previously in ‘perception and the psychic’, we all perceive the world in a slightly different way. When it comes to...
Steve MApr 17, 20194 minPhoto Technique - Architectural LightingI’ll get the real estate photographers problem out of the way here straight away. If you do this sort of work, you're going to have a...
Steve MApr 17, 20195 minPhoto Technique - To Tilt and Shift or not? Do you need a tilt/shift lens? I’ve spent a fair amount of time pondering this particular question and wondering if I should spend some...
Steve MApr 17, 20191 minAbout - Loftus Hall Townland #5 The deadpan arrangement of elements within this photograph have been used to give a feel for the utter desolation of some of the Hook’s...
Steve MApr 17, 20192 minAbout - Slade #1 Slade is the only harbour on the peninsula and any stranger, arriving by sea, would arrive here. In the original ghost story this is...
Steve MApr 17, 20194 minIs Photography Art? Nearly all art forms require an apparatus of some description, however photography always seems to have struggled to be taken seriously...
Steve MApr 15, 20193 minAbout - The Graveyard of a Thousand ShipsI thought I’d begin my blog posts with a dissection of the first image in #Loftus - The Hall of Dreams. This photograph along with all of...