Niall O’Brien
Born (a long time ago) in Malahide, and now retired, has been a member of Malahide Camera Club for 5 years. Primarily a landscape photographer with an interest in other genres also, including wildlife and street photography, travels as much as possible to areas around Ireland, the UK, and Europe, with particular favourites being the Inner and Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Shoots with a DSLR Nikon D850.
Pine Martin
Seilebost Beach
Pine Marten
This image was taken last year in a photography hide near Mullingar. Captured in the photograph is a European Pine Marten. The recovery of the pine marten in Ireland has been credited with reducing the population of invasive grey squirrels, and an increase in red squirrels. I particularly liked the warm light on the pine marten, his overall demeanour, as well the angle of the head and body which prescribes a fibinacci spiral, a well worn rule of photographic composition. The background is darkened so as to bring out the subject in the photograph. The photo was taken using a 70-300mm lens, and then cropped so as to isolate the pine marten.
Seilebost Beach
This photograph was taken in Lewis and Harris, an island in the Outer Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland, while spending a week there in March 25 on a photo trip. It was early afternoon and we were driving along the coast when we came upon this scene over looking Seilebost Beach. A bright sunny afternoon, it was typically a time when landscape photographers go to ground and wait for sunset. However, the light, the unique Hebridean colours, the layers of sand and water reaching out to the distant mountains, combined with the two people in the foreground providing scale, all combine to make this a bright, vibrant, interesting photograph. The photo was taken using a tripod and a polarising filter.