#blarney — Public Fediverse posts
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According to legend, kissing the Blarney Stone, a limestone block built into Ireland’s Blarney Castle, endows the kisser with ‘the gift of the gab’.
The supposed gift of great eloquence has made many statesmen, actors and writers try to kiss the stone.
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Sunset over the trees
The sun was already below the treeline when I took this, so all that was left was a band of orange above the horizon. The trees on either side close in far enough to frame the sunset on a lovely warm evening....
https://inphotos.org/2026/07/28/sunset-over-the-trees/
#Blarney #BlarneyPhotographyClub #clouds #Cork #countryside #EveningLight #Ireland #LandscapePhotography #Photo #Photography #silhouette #Sky #sunset #Trees
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Sunset over the trees
The sun was already below the treeline when I took this, so all that was left was a band of orange above the horizon. The trees on either side close in far enough to frame the sunset on a lovely warm evening. -
A Song Thrush at Dusk
The thrush was sitting on a branch in a cherry tree in the grounds of Blarney Castle late in the evening, and it stayed put long enough for a few frames. The next photo is a blur as the bird looked the other way, and the following photo is...
https://inphotos.org/2026/07/27/a-song-thrush-at-dusk/
#BirdPhotography #Blarney #BlarneyCastle #BlarneyPhotographyClub #CherryTree #Cork #CountyCork #EveningLight #GardenBirds #Ireland #Photo #Photography #SongThrush #wildlife
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A Song Thrush at Dusk
The thrush was sitting on a branch in a cherry tree in the grounds of Blarney Castle late in the evening, and it stayed put long enough for a few frames. The next photo is a blur as the bird looked the other way, and the following photo is of a bare branch. The thrush had flown away. -
The #Machines Are #Watching #You | And They Know #Everything (Compilation) #Privacy #Security #MassSurveillance #Titanpoint #NSA #yt #Snowden #Blarney #FISA #Skidrowe #MarkKlein #Numberstations
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Blarney from Above in 2016
Digging through the archive I found these two aerial photos of Blarney from September 2016, and the first one stopped me. See those fields that border the houses on 3 sides? They’re now Cluain Ard with houses, gardens, driveways, the lot. Back then it was still being far...
https://inphotos.org/2026/05/18/blarney-from-above-in-2016/
#2016 #AerialPhotography #Blarney #BlarneyCastle #BlarneyWoollenMIlls #CluainArd #Cork #Ireland #Landscape #Photo #Photography #village
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Blarney from Above in 2016
Blarney, from the secondary school and Woolen Mills to the Castle Digging through the archive I found these two aerial photos of Blarney from September 2016, and the first one stopped me. See those fields that border the houses on 3 sides? They're now Cluain Ard with houses, gardens, driveways, the lot. Back then it was still being farmed, with the older estates hugging the edges. The second frame is some of the village laid out like a model: the secondary school and its car park bottom […] -
Sorry, no diesel
I walked past Blarney Autos this morning and clocked the “SORRY NO DIESEL” sign on a car blocking the diesel pumps there. The fuel protests have been rumbling on around the country for days now, refineries are ringed by placards, and the knock-on is landing on forecourts like this one. It doesn’t help tha...
https://inphotos.org/2026/04/09/sorry-no-diesel/
#BlackAndWhite #Blarney #Cork #diesel #forecourt #FuelProtest #Ireland #NoFuel #StreetPhotography #TriaExpress
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Sorry, no diesel
I walked past Blarney Autos this morning and clocked the "SORRY NO DIESEL" sign on a car blocking the diesel pumps there. The fuel protests have been rumbling on around the country for days now, refineries are ringed by placards, and the knock-on is landing on forecourts like this one. It doesn't help that roughly two-thirds of what we pay at the pump is tax of one flavour or another, and the war in Iran has shoved the wholesale price of oil the wrong way. I sympathise but don't support […] -
Northern Lights Over North Cork
You don’t expect to stand in a field north of Blarney and watch the northern lights, but here we are. Last night the aurora put on a show visible well into southern Ireland. Bands of pink and magenta hung across thesky, bleeding into that unmistakable...
https://inphotos.org/2026/03/21/northern-lights-over-north-cork/
#astrophotography #aurora #AuroraBorealis #Blarney #Cork #GeomagneticStorm #Ireland #NightSky #NorthernLights #Photo #Photography #RuralIreland #stars
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Northern Lights Over North Cork
You don’t expect to stand in a field north of Blarney and watch the northern lights, but here we are. Last night the aurora put on a show visible well into southern Ireland. Bands of pink and magenta hung across the sky, bleeding into that unmistakable green glow along the horizon. To the naked eye nothing could be seen, but the camera pulled out colours that made the whole scene look otherworldly.
A passing car lit up the bare trees on the ridge at just the right moment, backlighting them with a warm glow that played off the green aurora behind. It was one of those happy accidents you couldn’t plan if you tried. Even the electricity poles added something, a reminder that this was a country road in Cork, not the Arctic Circle. These events have become more frequent as we near solar maximum, so keep an eye on the Kp index and have a dark-sky spot in mind, because the next one might be even better.
Apertureƒ/2.8CameraILCE-7RM5Focal length24mmISO6400Shutter speed3.2s #2026 #astrophotography #aurora #auroraBorealis #Blarney #Cork #geomagneticStorm #Ireland #nightSky #northernLights #Photo #Photography #ruralIreland #SamyangAF24mmF28FE #SonyA7RV #stars -
Bye Bye Hoppy
We said goodbye to our dear cat, Hoppy today. She was 18 years old, and the last of her family that was brought into our lives by their mother many years ago.
She was an adorable cat. She would accept rubs and loving ear scratches for as long as you'd do them.
https://inphotos.org/2025/11/25/bye-bye-hoppy/
#photo #photography #cat #catsofMastodon #Cork #Ireland #Blarney
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@parismarx isn't that basically how disruptive things work? oh the cars will destroy all the horse drawn carriages, this is an old fear that is ungrounded in reality as we have seen on countless occasions, instead maybe accept change and look at all the opportunities. ai needs oversight like anything else but it is not an exception, ireland is a tech hub now thanks to generous tax laws, somehow it may be appropriate #blarney
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A colourful sunrise
It was one of those mornings where the sun shone on the clouds from below the horizon and filled the sky with fiery colours!
I’ve been working on a WordPress plugin called Cloud Cover Forecast. It will show you the low, mid, and high clouds for a particular location in a block on your site. It’s inspired by Clear Outside. If you have a blog, take it for a whirl and let me know if it works for you! It’s not on WordPress.org yet, so you’ll have to install it manually by uploading the zip file.
Apertureƒ/8CameraILCE-7RM5Focal length41mmISO200Shutter speed1/100s#Blarney #Cork #dramaticClouds #Ireland #IrishLandscape #morningLight #morningSky #naturalBeauty #orangeSky #Photo #Photography #silhouettePhotography #Sky #Sun #sunrise
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A stream through the castle grounds. Blarney Castle Ireland #ireland #blarney #castle #landscape #stream #river #landscapephotography #photography #photo
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Cherry Blossoms in Bloom
Cherry blossoms bloom on a tree at the other end of my park every year, but I always forget to bring my camera to photograph it until this afternoon.
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Golden Dawn Through the Trees
This morning, the sun rose through a beautiful orange haze. This was some 600m away through the eye of a long lens, and it looked even better in real life.
https://inphotos.org/2025/04/07/golden-dawn-through-the-trees/
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Golden Dawn Through the Trees
This morning, the sun rose through a beautiful orange haze. This was some 600m away through the eye of a long lens, and it looked even better in real life.
Apertureƒ/6.3CameraILCE-7RM5Focal length600mmISO800Shutter speed1/4000s#atmosphericLandscape #Blarney #Cork #goldenHour #Ireland #mistyForest #morningLight #naturePhotography #orangeSky #Photo #scenicView #silhouette #Sky #Sun #sunrise #tranquilScene #woodlandSilhouettes
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The Calm Before The Day
The sun rose this morning a few minutes after 7am, but this is what the sky looked like about 8 minutes before. There was a glorious orange glow and the clouds were lit up from underneath by the sun coming around the globe and shining through the atmosphere.
https://inphotos.org/2025/04/01/the-calm-before-the-day/
#photo #photography #Blarney #sunrise #sun #sky #Cork #Ireland
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The Calm Before The Day
The sun rose this morning a few minutes after 7am, but this is what the sky looked like about 8 minutes before. There was a glorious orange glow and the clouds were lit up from underneath by the sun coming around the globe and shining through the atmosphere.
Apertureƒ/8CameraILCE-7RM5Focal length26mmISO500Shutter speed1/125s#Blarney #Cork #Ireland #Photo #Photography #silhouette #Sky #Sun #sunrise
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The Blues Brothers in Action
The Cannonball Run brought a burst of excitement to the streets of Blarney back in 2018 despite the rain that day. It appears I only posted one photo from that day before. I must dig out more!
https://inphotos.org/2025/03/31/the-blues-brothers-in-action/
#photo #photography #Cork #Ireland #Blarney #Cannonball #StreetPhotography
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The Blues Brothers in Action
The Cannonball Run brought a burst of excitement to the streets of Blarney back in 2018 despite the rain that day. It appears I only posted one photo from that day before. I must dig out more!
Apertureƒ/7.1CameraILCE-7M3Focal length105mmISO8000Shutter speed1/500s#Blarney #CannonballIreland #Cork #Ireland #Photo #Photography #StreetPhotography
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Woodpecker heard several times this PM, #Blarney
#speirgorm #spéirgorm #cork #corkCity #mastodaoine #woodpecker #bwi
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It snowed this morning
It snowed for the first time this winter in Blarney. It was raining so, at least around here, the snow didn't settle on the roads. All the snow is gone by this stage, but it's cold out. Hopefully, the wet ground doesn't freeze.
https://inphotos.org/2024/11/21/it-snowed-this-morning/
#photo #photography #Cork #Ireland #Blarney #Snow #LongExposure
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It snowed this morning
It snowed for the first time this winter in Blarney. It was raining so, at least around here, the snow didn’t settle on the roads. All the snow is gone by this stage, but it’s cold out. Hopefully, the wet ground doesn’t freeze.
Apertureƒ/1.8CameraILCE-7RM5Focal length75mmISO2500Shutter speed1/15s#2024 #Blarney #Cork #Ireland #LongExposure #Photo #Photography #SamyangAF75mmF18FE #snow #SonyA7RV #sunrise
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Snow on the road
It’s turned cold in Ireland, and we’re expecting snow overnight, but Met Éireann says there’s a 20-45% chance of snow, so it might just be another cold day tomorrow. Hopefully, it doesn’t rain and freeze.
Don’t be fooled, this image is from January 2021.
Raw and edited images attached. Small changes but I like this light in this one.
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Snow on the road
It’s turned cold in Ireland, and we’re expecting snow overnight, but Met Éireann says there’s a 20-45% chance of snow, so it might just be another cold day tomorrow. Hopefully, it doesn’t rain and freeze.
Don’t be fooled, this image is from January 2021.
Apertureƒ/2.4CameraSM-G965FFocal length4.3mmISO50Shutter speed1/1100s