For Mothers Day this year, Sí and I took my parents to see the Band parade in Limerick. After parking by the peoples park, I couldn’t help but notice how striking the colours were on that gorgeous Spring morning. We had a great day out – the bands were fantastic and we had a nice lunch in the Strand hotel afterwards – what more could you ask for!

Taken on a lovely bright, still morning in Curraghchase.

Síofra and I were a year married on Feb. 10th. In the absence of decent wrapping paper, I made my own! Happy anniversary Sí. x

The remainder of the photos from Cars and Coffee in Limerick on Sunday March 4th 2012.

Possibly my favourite shot from the day – only in Ireland could you have a Cortina and an FD RX7 parked beside each other.

I’m not really into modding cars myself – but I have to say this FD looked great.

There were two nice 911s in attendence (and a Boxster too, I think).

A big ole Pontiac.

A Ferrari 308 in that unmistakable shade of Red.

And from the same family – one of my fav’s on the day – a spottless Fiat 500.

This BMW has clearly been around Limerick for a few years now!

An Opel GT – lovely looking machine. Apparently it’s running all modern internals, so it’s nice and reliable now.

Some of the crowd, milling around, taking in the sights.

This may well be the fastest truck in all of Ireland!

That’s it for the coverage of Cars and Coffee for March. I won’t be able to make the next meet up as it clashes with the first rounds of the Hillclimb and Sprint championship. But I’ll be back to cover more event’s later in the year.

Cars and Coffee was on in Limerick this morning, so I decided to take a spin over and see what was happening. The concept is simple, you drive over to the Eastway Plaza just off the Ballysimon road, park up, get yourself a coffee and wander around looking at cars.

I enjoyed the morning, it was great to see such a diverse selection of machinery in one place. Some beautifully turned out machines – some honest daily drivers. Some old, some new and a bit of everything in between. A good social event that has a bit of something for everyone!

A Jag KX (I believe) and Jack Kingstons beautiful 280SE Merc.

 A Jensen C – you don’t see to many of these around these days.

That stunning 280SE again.

The interior is just as good as the exterior!

All sorts of cars were represented and Cars and Coffee, a relatively new Merc, an MG and a Triumph in the background.

The bright work on the Triumph was in good condition.

The Triumph even had “dickie-seats” in the boot. You’ve got to love the rear wind shield to keep the bugs out of your teeth!

An Elise in great condition…

…which is clearly being driven regularly! That’s what I like to see! 🙂

Hillclimber, Paul O’Connell, even bought out the single seaters.

Paul finished second in the national championship in 2010 – having taken a year off, he’ll be out on the hills again this season.
See irishhillclimb.com for details on Hillclimbing in Ireland.

Cars and Coffee is on the first Sunday of every month at Eastway Business Plaza (just off the Ballysimon Road), between 11am and 1pm. There are worse ways to spend a Sunday morning, believe me!

Part 2 coming soon – watch this space!

You can find more photos here!

Following on from an earlier post, Here are a few more shots from my shoot with Barry in Adare a few weeks ago. There are only so many photos I can take of one man and his guitar, so you might find these a little repetitive by the time you get to the end. I’m always looking for feedback, so do let me know which ones are your favourite/least favourite and why!

Having just left Ireland, Barry has recently started blogging about life in Holland – be sure to check it out: http://twentethings.wordpress.com/

Donal welding – one from a set I did for a website a few weeks back.

This chap can only be described as a character. I’ve known him for a long time now. He recently got in touch and asked me if I would mind taking a few shots for him playing his guitar “for a laugh, like”. For something that was only supposed to be for a laugh, I have to say there was a lot of undirected (natural) shaping going on!! 🙂 Although I do reckon he’d make a great model – if only for his ability to follow direction (oh, and his rugged good looks).

It was a miserable bloody day – stormy is the only way to describe it. We ended up spending a few hours out in the rain around Adare getting the shots, I have to say, it was nothing short of hilarious. I’ll be posting a few non-50mm photos from this set over the next few weeks.

Alas, I won’t see the lad for a while now as he is moving abroad. Fitz, best of luck with your new career working as a Musical Weatherman on Dutch national TV!! 😛

An old ZV reg Landrover parked up at Moll’s Gap between Killarney and Kenmare. An unusual location to try and sell a vehicle, but kind of fitting given the machine that it is at the same time!

So, I’ve finally taken the time out to start a new project. You may remember that I did a 365 project back in 2009 where I took a photo a day for the year. I learned a lot, but haven’t really exerted myself (in photography) any further in the meantime. So this time, I’m going to take 50 shots at 50mm (using my EF 50mm 1.8 – a cheap and very cheerful prime lens). There is no theme, this is more of an exercise to get me out and about with the camera – to get me thinking again.

Anyway, this is the first shot in the series – our pup, Archie. I took this earlier this month shortly after I decided to commit to doing the 50@50 project. A decomissioned railway line runs by Adare which makes for a nice walk. Archie loved it and I’m proud to report that this is the first time he ever obeyed the ‘stay’ command. Clever pup!

As usual, all feedback is very welcome! Comments or Critique? Leave it below!