drogheda – Aidan Curran Photography

Landscape Photography Prints Louth

aidan — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 14:03:11 +0000

Landscape photography prints for sale in County Louth

As a County Louth based landscape photographer you will find some of my collection of landscape photos on my website which not only captures different locations with-in the County Louth area, but different subject matters to my normal style. This includes capturing some of County Louth’s most iconic landmarks, for example: Millmount, Boyne Viaduct, Mellifont Abbey, Mary Mcaleese Boyne Cable Bridge, Roche Castle , Cuchulainn’s Castle Dundalk just to name a few.

All of my landscape photographs are available as prints or framed prints and can be delivered to your door with-in the Republic of Ireland.

If you cannot find the photograph you’re looking for on my website try visiting my social media accounts on Facebook and Instagram. On these social media accounts you will find hundreds of photographs not only from around County Louth but from my travels all around Ireland over the years.

All the best!

Aidan

Dolphin in the Boyne River Drogheda

aidan — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 10:51:56 +0000

What a beautiful sight to see a Dolphin swimming so far up the Boyne River. Drogheda now has its own Fungi!! Great to see so many people come out to catch a glimpse.

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Wading Birds On The Boyne River

aidan — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 18:27:41 +0000

I captured some beautiful photos of wading birds that wade in and feed on the mudflats of the Boyne River Estuary at Drogheda. I found that some birds wade in shallow water, while others feed on the rocky shoreline. The wading birds mostly have long legs and bills which enable them look for food in deeper waters.

It is amazing to watch them use there long legs that help them balance steadily in sand and mud. I photgraphed a couple of wading birds on Saturday morning just gone which include, Black tailed godwit, Dunlin and Redshank.

See below video I shot in a 100 frames per second to help slow down there movement, as these guys move very fast when feeding.

Video of Wading Birds on The Boyne River.

Brent Geese

aidan — Sat, 13 Mar 2021 13:05:13 +0000

I spent a couple of hours early this morning photographing Brent Geese along the Boyne River Estuary. We are lucky here in Louth that large flocks of this long distance migratory Geese feed up and down the River and coastal areas. It will not be long now till these Geese continue on there Migratory cycle to Iceland.

Redshank along the Boyne River Estuary

aidan — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 19:18:11 +0000

What amazing light there was on Sunday morning for photographing wading birds within my 5 kilometres restriction . I decided to target the Redshank as there was a large flock feeding along the river channel of the Boyne river estuary at Drogheda in County Louth. It can be hard to get a decent-sized image of a wading bird as usually the first sight of a human and there gone!!

The redshank are small, so you have to get really close to them to get a decent picture. I recently purchased a Ghillie Blanket from Tragopan and wanted to see how effective it would be to camouflage me from the wading birds. Having scared off the birds on my arrival and while setting up the camera gear. After lying down and covering myself and the camera with the Ghillie Blanket, I would say within about 30 minutes the birds started coming closer and closer.

I was really happy with the photos I got and I am looking forward to photographing some more of the shore birds next weekend, that’s if the light is good enough!

Juvenile Cormorant Canal Drogheda

aidan — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 16:24:55 +0000

During my walk this morning along the Boyne Green way at the Ramparts in Drogheda, I spotted a Juvenile Cormorant standing on the edge of the canal. I didn’t have my camera with me, so I decided to head back home and pick up both my camera, tripod and gimbal head.

The tripod was essential as the light was poor I would need to slow my shutter speed down to help with keeping the ISO low as possible. On my return to my surprise the Cormorant was still there but had moved along further up the canal.

Bird Reflection Pool For Garden Photography

aidan — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 17:56:07 +0000

I was looking to take my garden bird photography to another level, so I decided to create a reflection pool that can be portable and that would not make to much of a mess of the garden.

It’s was really easy to create using a black plastic potting tray that measures about 1 meter long. I purchased one from the local hardware store and some 3/4” ply wood for supporting the tray underneath. I picked up some mossy tree branches for perches and used some clippings from plants in the garden.

Below are a couple of the photos that I have taken so far and hopefully as I use the reflection pool more will get better with the staging of the photos.

Garden Bird Photography

aidan — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 20:51:23 +0000

Last Saturday I spent the morning in the back garden setting up a new perch for photographing the birds that come to my feeders. I brought home a nice mossy tree branch that I picked up from a walk I had earlier in the week along the Boyne River in my local area in Drogheda.

It wasn’t long before I had the birds coming to the feeders and the Sparrows started to perch on the mossy tree branch. After about an hour I realised that the tree branch was maybe a little too thick for the Blue Tits to perch on. I decided to add some bird feed on top of the mossy part of the tree branch to entice the Blue Tits to perch.

It didn’t take long before they landed and posed for a photograph. In post processing I knew all I had to do to get rid of the food from the tree branch was to bring it into Photoshop and use the spot healing brush and it would be like it was never there.

The Dunnock along the Boyne River

aidan — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 05:53:28 +0000

The Dunnock

As the World continues it’s battle against Covid-19 and with more lock down restrictions in Ireland, I took the decision earlier last year that I was going to start photographing wild birds in my local area of Drogheda as I found myself starting to struggle with compositions locally for landscape photography. So last week I set up my camera up along the Boyne River and managed to get a few shots of this beautiful little Dunnock along with some other species of birds.

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Christmas Lights in Drogheda

aidan — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 15:38:53 +0000

Drogheda town really pushed the boat out this year with a great display of Christmas Lights around the town. The Christmas Lights feature not only in the town itself but also along the Boyne River at Scotch Hall and D-hotel.

I was after a couple of reflection shots along the river to reflect the Christmas lights, so timing was everything. I decided that low tide was the best time as the water would be more calm then and this would help with the reflections in the water.