Ronan Palliser Photography

Sinead & Diarmaid (Part 2)

Ronan Palliser — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:17:45 +0000

Before Father Bohan got to tell the congregation about the chuckle I had given him a little earlier, there was the small matter of a wedding ceremony to take care of. That, as it always does, involved the exchange of vows and the exchange of rings. I often position myself in the aisle for this [...]

Sinead & Diarmaid (Part 1)

Ronan Palliser — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:47:11 +0000

I mentioned at the end of yesterday’s post that I experienced every photographer’s worst nightmare the night before Sinead and Diarmaid’s wedding last weekend – I started to feel very unwell, with just hours to go to the wedding. Thankfully I recovered within a few hours (after putting a contingency plan in place) and when [...]

The priest, the photographer and the kiss

Ronan Palliser — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:57:01 +0000

Meet Father Harry Bohan. He’s the parish priest in Sixmilebridge, in County Clare, and I met him for the first time on Saturday. He’s well known around Clare, and further afield, for his work in the community, as the founder of the Rural Resource Organization, and for his involvement with Clare hurling, including as manager [...]

The importance of a photograph

Ronan Palliser — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:36:40 +0000

How many times have you said to yourself “oh I should have brought a camera”, or maybe “I should really take a photo of this”? My advice – bring the camera, and take the photo. Whatever it is, and however bad it is. The camera can just be your phone, which probably means you have [...]

B is for… Background

Ronan Palliser — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:27:28 +0000

Over the course of this A to Z series, I hope to introduce beginner photographers to maybe four concepts that they can use to improve the standard of their photography practically over night. The first of those comes in this, part 2 of 26, as we hit the letter B, and share a visual conversation [...]

Termonfeckin beach

Ronan Palliser — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:21:24 +0000

I can barely remember the last time I got to take my camera out to capture a landscape photograph, so when I found myself passing close to Termonfeckin beach in Louth the other day, and with all of about five minutes to spare, I decided to take a short diversion off the motorway to go [...]

Roger and the giant pear

Ronan Palliser — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:38:27 +0000

My favourite maths teacher in secondary school introduced me to the concept of a mnemonic. For those of you who don’t know, a mnemonic is basically where you use an easy-to-remember word or phrase as a prompt for something harder to remember. I think one of Mr. O’Brien’s ones was “Soh Cah Toa”. (Can you [...]

Isn’t it ironic?

Ronan Palliser — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:10:00 +0000

The video above is one you might have seen already in the last couple of days, because it’s doing the rounds on the web. But if you haven’t it’s worth 4 minutes of your time, because in the week when Kodak filed for bankruptcy, this forward-looking video from 2006, which, in an amusing way, predicts [...]

A is for… Aperture

Ronan Palliser — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:30:09 +0000

In the beginning was A, and the A was for Aperture. And as starting points go for a series all about photography, it’s not a bad one. When we take photographs, whether we are advanced photographers or newbies, we usually want our images to be well exposed, and to be acceptably in focus in the [...]

Oh what a beautiful morning

Ronan Palliser — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:39:20 +0000

It’s a while since I’ve posted an iPhone shot, and how I wished I had brought one of my ‘proper’ cameras with me this morning as I walked to the Luas (from where I am posting this). Even more than that, how I wished I was somewhere like Sandymount or Ringsend as the sun rose [...]