Posts Tagged ‘ireland’
Portrait sessions available in August.
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Portrait session slots are available in August for anyone interested! They make a lovely birthday or anniversary gift idea.
And thinking of portraits, this is one of my all time favourites. I took it on the same day as the photo shoot mentioned below. Her name is Afsana Khatum, and lives on the outskirts of Kolkata, [...]
Awakening Wonder and the Power of a Tale
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It was a night of butterflies imitating bears, golden apples on tall trees, a grumpy old man getting stranded on the moon. It was a night of Nigerian song, Irish rants, French fairytale. It was the monthly story night in Galway, an evening of international stories and song, organised by the wonderful Clare Muireann Murphy.
To [...]
Life really is a Festival
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It was party time last night, hosted by the wonderful Gisela, aka Life is a Festival. I met Gisela a few times over the last year and she is a whirlwind of inspiration and energy. Gisela is a volunteering addict. Through offering her time and skills she gets to interesting places and meets the most [...]
Faces of the Festival
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A few of the wonderful faces at the Festival of World Culture this weekend in Dun Laoighre, Dublin. FAB!!
Gallivants…
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My goodness. June and July have been such a wonderous delight. They have been packed to overflowing with fun and friendship, adventures and insights. I think I am hovering in something that resembles bliss. I’m going to share a few photographic highlights, and some thoughts which have been spiralling, rambling and refusing to settle.
On Gardening:
An [...]
Yoga+Ideas+Music= The Yoga Salon
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I’m the ‘ideas’ in the above equation- or at least I will be tonight, when I’ll be speaking at the Yoga Salon event in 15 Stephen’s Green, tonight (3rd June).
There is a facebook group for it here . You will also have a chance to purchase copies of One Wild Life at the event too… [...]
Collaboration get to print..
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Print results from recent collaborations with PCC have just been published, and can be viewed on their flickr account here.
Hospice’s annual report is looking lovely, as too the direct mail fundraiser for NCBI.
Some of my images also popped up on a brochure for Fighting Words.
I love it when things get to print! And as always, [...]
Philanthropy for Tomorrow’s Ireland
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Philanthropy Ireland held its annual Ray Murphy lecture last week in the beautiful surroundings of the National Gallery, and I was there with camera in hand.
Speaking at the event, Mary Robinson (whom guests collectively agreed with applause is a national treasure- agreed), spoke about the role of philanthropy in tomorrow’s Ireland. She spoke of the [...]
Blinding ambitions..
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Teaming up with PCC again, I’ve just completed a two day photo shoot for the National Council of the Blind of Ireland (www.ncbi.ie) and what a little adventure I had. Whizzing around the city, I got to met some mighty inspiring people. Like a woman who lost her sight 20 years ago an now travels [...]
Comments to chew on from the Bridge to College…
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‘More teamwork’, ‘more peer-to-peer learning’, ‘redesign classroom layout’ were just a few of the comments whizzing from the lunch tables at the Science Gallery when Suas and the Trinity Foundation played host to a discussion yesterday to help launch Irish educational practices into the 21st Century.
The lunch event followed the graduation of 300+ secondary [...]