http://blog.louisebarnewall.com Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:49:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm pretty useless at keeping this blog up to date so I've gone and created another one which will involve posting a photo a day hopefully. You can see my efforts at www.golanky.com. I'll still keep this one going in case I swallow a few dictionaries or have some funny ... http://blog.louisebarnewall.com/2009/03/04/a-new-blog-from-me/ I got the opportunity of doing another gig so I jumped at the chance. Travega a band I shot before last year were playing at a charity event at The Academy last night. The lighting wasn't great. I had to rely on the 580exII quite a bit even though it's ... http://blog.louisebarnewall.com/2009/01/25/travega-the-academy/ I rank Waxwings just below Puffins in my list of favourite birds ever. Waxwings are a regular visitor to Ireland but they don't come in massive numbers. They tend to be found gorging themselves on berry trees around the east coast of Ireland although some are known to be spotted ... http://blog.louisebarnewall.com/2009/01/17/waxwing/ It's been a while but a friend convinced me to post again. I've got into birding in a big way as of late as anyone who checks on my flickr will see. It has caused my work colleagues and other friends to think I am a complete weirdo (well more ... http://blog.louisebarnewall.com/2008/12/29/im-back/ I headed out to the Bull Wall at high tide today to see what I could get with my current camera setup 40D and 70-200 2.8 with 2xTC and also to see where the birds were at during high tide. It was very rushed. I just happened to look up ... http://blog.louisebarnewall.com/2008/08/17/the-one-that-got-away/ Got a text from my mate today to tell me she has an easy 5km walk ahead of her tomorrow to finish the Camino de Santiago walk. It's about 1 million kilometers long.. well 800km to be exact. Some days she had 40km to complete. It got me thinking about ... http://blog.louisebarnewall.com/2008/08/16/well-done-parns/ The boards.ie lads had organised a trip to the zoo. I turned up late after my morning of wrestling a dog (yes I won but my car smells of dog now). I have been extremely lazy with the camera lately. Not sure why, but I thought a trip to the ... http://blog.louisebarnewall.com/2008/08/10/dublin-zoo/ Managed to pick up a ticket to see the Counting Crows in the Ambassador last night hours before the show. Got the ticket on the ticketmaster website even though the gig was listed as sold out. Goes to show you should keep checking the day of the gig. I was so ... http://blog.louisebarnewall.com/2008/07/11/counting-crows-ambassador-dublin/ We had a work night out last night in Dicey Reillys on Harcourt street. They have a summer BBQ and they offer different BBQ menus depending on the companies budget. It all went wrong yesterday afternoon when our S&S rep got a call from someone in Dicey Reillys to say ... http://blog.louisebarnewall.com/2008/07/04/rip-off-ireland-dicey-reillys/ While everyone was at Merrion Square at the Street Performance World Championship I hit the road and went looking for two trees I saw in a photo from one of my flickr contacts. Yes it was mad. Finsing two particular trees somewhere up the wicklow mountains makes me sound mad ... http://blog.louisebarnewall.com/2008/06/16/the-sally-gap/