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Red Lights - closer

marydoll — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:26:47 +0000

by: marydoll

Description: Just a bit closer

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Just My Luck

marydoll — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:25:28 +0000

by: marydoll

Description: Two cars arrived while I was trying to take pics!! Cars are not supposed to be around the middle of town!

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Christmas Lights - Closer

marydoll — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:23:29 +0000

by: marydoll

Description: Moved in a little closer to try this - definitely need more practice.

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Christmas Lights

marydoll — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:21:35 +0000

by: marydoll

Description: Town Centre about 5 miles from where I live. I thought it'd be a good evening to stop by. I used my tripod.

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Leaves

marydoll — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:57:26 +0000

by: marydoll

Description: I haven't been out with my camera recently, between poor weather and exhaustion. We did go for a unplanned walk in the forest one day but it wasn't a nice day. Just thought I'd show up in here to apologise for not being around.

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Sky in November

marydoll — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 16:48:03 +0000

by: marydoll

Description: Just a quick trip out this afternoon and noticed this sky.

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Ambulance Boy

marydoll — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 22:37:38 +0000

by: marydoll

Description: This guy was also a natural and probably his first stand up on a board, he was so happy when he had finished this run. Again I was glad to capture it for him. Being out with the camera, made me realise how much I miss just pottering about with it.

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Ambulance Girl

marydoll — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 22:35:06 +0000

by: marydoll

Description: This girl may have surfed before, if not, she was a natural. I was glad I tracked her and caught this shot.

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Team Building

marydoll — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 22:32:58 +0000

by: marydoll

Description: These surfers are on a team building exercise from the Ambulance Service. My friend asked me to take some pics of them but I couldn't stay long. It was too windy to go down on to the beach with my camera.

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Preparing to Surf

marydoll — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 22:30:38 +0000

by: marydoll

Description: A friend asked me to take some photographs of his first-time surfing morning. It was a wild day with rough seas but these guys went in anyway. I used the RF100-300, I haven't had much time to experiment with it. I cannot find these pics on my hard drive but have downloaded these from where I sent them to him privately.

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River Bann

marydoll — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 22:19:50 +0000

by: marydoll

Description: This is at a different location but the same river. My friend is painting a scene on the river and I've taken him there at different times to refresh his memory of the scene and to see it in different light.

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River Bann

marydoll — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 22:17:42 +0000

by: marydoll

Description: Phone shot of the River Bann in the centre of a local town. I haven't had the opportunity to go out on a regular basis with the camera. Really missing getting out but looking after a friend and he is doing really well.

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Late Night Bowling

marydoll — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 22:47:06 +0000

by: marydoll

Description: First time I've seen this location lit up like this, only had a phone with me!

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Up close and personal

marydoll — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 20:46:12 +0000

by: marydoll

Description: I tried to get closer with this shot. I took these pics with the Canon RF100-800 considered using a tripod but thought it might spook the butterflies.

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Speckled Wood (I think)

marydoll — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 20:43:28 +0000

by: marydoll

Description: I think this is coming to the end of it's life, such a pity.

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Red Admiral

marydoll — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 20:41:15 +0000

by: marydoll

Description: I just wish I wasn't so shaky when taking photographs like this. It's worse whenever passing motorists who know me and want to attract my attention and toot their car horns!!

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Large Tortoiseshell (I think)

marydoll — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 20:38:31 +0000

by: marydoll

Description: I discovered today my ice plants were a great attraction to the butterflies again, this year. Update: my friend has to have another operation this Wednesday. He has been keeping me very busy and I've missed all the lovely weather for taking photographs!! Such is life.

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Brian's latest Artwork

marydoll — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 20:34:51 +0000

by: marydoll

Description: This is some of the work Brian has completed this year. Although the dragon was painted many years ago.

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Roll out the barrel

marydoll — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 20:32:03 +0000

by: marydoll

Description: Weeks ago I promised Brian (the man in blue) I'd take photographs for him of the start of his new project. He is an 89 year old artist and had decided to paint this barrel for a gardening group. Barrel had to be moved to his new workshop, the 3 'young' people were among a group moving it. Before going into the building they discovered it was leaking a little whiskey!!!! This is going to be an interesting paint job!!

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Mr Chips

marydoll — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 22:45:30 +0000

by: marydoll

Description: I've wanted to take a photograph of this but could never quite be there at the right time. This morning while out, I noticed the van and shop nearby. This is only a phone photograph. I haven't been out taking photographs for some time as my best friend has been in hospital, quite ill. Just thought I'd stop by tonight to explain my absence.

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From a different angle

marydoll — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 14:51:26 +0000

by: marydoll

Description: I had to change my viewpoint as someone stood up, in front of me blocking me!! This was taken down on the promenade.

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Queen Elizabeth Pipe Band

marydoll — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 14:48:15 +0000

by: marydoll

Description: I kept missing the stick being thrown up - this was a fluke!! I used a high ISO of between 640 and 800 as it was a dull day.

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Tullylagan Pipe Band

marydoll — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 14:44:57 +0000

by: marydoll

Description: The bands paraded on the West Promenade, years ago they paraded around the town but not this year! They paraded showing off the prizes. Crowds gathered to watch.

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Drumlough

marydoll — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 14:41:55 +0000

by: marydoll

Description: I just like the reflection, of the drummer, on the drum.

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Concentration

marydoll — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 14:39:25 +0000

by: marydoll

Description: Difficult to capture the stick been thrown as I never knew when it was going to happen.

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Flying Sticks

marydoll — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 14:37:08 +0000

by: marydoll

Description: Pipe Band Competition returned to our town on Saturday but to a different location. These were the young ones in competition.

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Fisherman returning

marydoll — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 23:13:14 +0000

by: marydoll

Description: Fisherman returning to Port in rough seas.

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Rush

marydoll — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 23:55:49 +0000

by: marydoll

Description: Rush is used so much in Portrush and there's a Goldrush too! Crowds waiting for the bands - the whole town was full of people standing/sitting at the side of the pavements waiting!

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Band Parade

marydoll — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 23:50:39 +0000

by: marydoll

Description: On Saturday night a local band held a band parade around town, it had received so much publicity because of the golf being on around the same time. This is a phone shot, as I didn't wish to carry a camera, too many around. There were approx 80 bands parading!

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Nathan Carter Singing

marydoll — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 23:45:13 +0000

by: marydoll

Description: This guy is a famous singer here in NI and in Scotland, he was singing at an open air radio concert. I had taken my long lens with me (to see if there were any dolphins!), so I took this shot. About an hour before this I had been in a caf� for lunch and he came in for lunch too! His most famous song is Wagon Wheel!!

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Original for Dave

marydoll — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 10:31:33 +0000

by: marydoll

Description: F8 1/400sec ISO 160 Exp .03 - size 6000 x 4000 5.9 mls 350 dpi. The cropped size is 2291/1566, I just cropped the photograph to make the characters stand out. You can tell I haven't a clue what I'm doing with photography, even at this late stage in life!!

Tommy Fleetwood

marydoll — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 23:30:13 +0000

by: marydoll

Description: I was about to go home, when I decided to take one more look at the practice area. I'd gone to the event in the hope of seeing Tommy Fleetwood and lo there he was. When he finished his practice he came round everyone signing autographs and I was able to take this photograph. So it pays to stick around at events, I went home very happy.

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Tom McKibben and Niall Horan

marydoll — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 23:24:49 +0000

by: marydoll

Description: Tom McKibben is a Northern Ireland Golfer, just starting out. Niall Horan is or was a singer with the group One Direction, a boy band! I hadn't a clue who he was when I took the photograph. I was some distance away and this is heavily cropped, taken with the R6 and 100-400 lens which I'm beginning to like. I'd appreciate your opinion about the quality of a big a crop, if you know what I mean.

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