Animals – Ciaran Buckley Photography

Araglin Animal Sanctuary Open Day.

I had an awesome day at the Araglin Animal Sanctuary in Cork, Ireland. I’ve been following their Facebook page for a while and seeing the great work they do. So I was really excited to see that they were having an open day as part of the Araglin Town Carnival. I’ll be keeping an eye on their Facebook page for any future open day and I will be back with my camera.

Araglin Animal Sanctuary is has an amazing selection of animals, from goats and ponys, to moles, foxes and my favorite of them all was the Raccoons. The wolves were awesome too and particularly difficult to get a good picture of as they keep moving to the part of the enclosure that was furthest from wherever I was standing.

Well it has been quite some time since I posted on my blog I hope you all liked it, and hopefully I will start to post regularly on here. As always I hope you liked the pictures and feel free to like, comment, share and all that Jazz.

Peace Out.

The Foxy Prophet.

July 17, 2018 by ciaranbuckleyphotography Categories: Animal Photogrpahy, Ireland, NatureTags: Animal Festival, Animal Photographer, Animal Photography, Animal Sanctuary, Animals, Araglin, Araglin Animal Sanctuary, Araglin Cork, Ciaran Buckley Photography, Compassion for animals, Cork, cute, cute animals, Digital Photography, goat, Ireland, Irish Wolf, ispca, lemur, Love animals, Nature, Nature Photography, owl, parrott, Photography, Raccoon, Recue Lemur, rescue animal, rescue raccoon, things to do in ireland, Tourism Cork, Turtle, visit ireland, Wolf 1 Comment

Save the Bees.

There was a spell of good weather in the last few weeks and I was lucky enough that these guys and gals stood still for long enough and I was able to get a few snaps of them collecting pollen.

I know that the last one isn’t a bee but I was just really happy with how the picture turned out. As always I hope you liked the pictures and let me know what you think of them in the comments.

Ciaran.

September 3, 2017September 3, 2017 by ciaranbuckleyphotography Categories: Animal Photogrpahy, Flowers, insects, UncategorizedTags: Animals, bees, close up, Cork, County Cork, doneraile wildlife park, Flower, Flowers, hoverfly, Macro, Macro Photography, Nature, Photography, pollen, save the bees, summer Leave a comment

The most photographed cats in the world.

I got myself a new lens for my camera during the week, its a canon 50mm prime lens. So to celebrate I spent the whole weekend taking pictures of the cats. Luckily for you they are the most handsome bunch of pussies in all the land. So I hope you enjoy the pussy pics.

I hope you enjoyed all the cat pictures. There will be plenty more of them in the future.

Ciaran.

August 27, 2017August 27, 2017 by ciaranbuckleyphotography Categories: Animal Photography, Animal Photogrpahy, cats, IrelandTags: Abby The Cat, Animals, Cat Whiskers, Cat Yawn, cats, Cork, Garden, George The Cat, ginger cat, Golden Eyes, Green Eyes, Ireland, Lioness, Nature, Photography, Portrait, pussy, pussy pictures, Sleeing Cat, tabby, tabby cat, whiskers, Yawn, Yawning Cat Leave a comment

Galtee Mór. A sweaty day in the hills.

For years when I heard people talk about the the Galtee Mór I thought they were on about some kind of giant rasher, it turns out its a mountain. When I found this out I decided to go walk up it. I took my camera too because as you may have guessed I like taking pictures of things.

It was a great day for walking it was pretty much all blue skies and with the odd smattering of clouds, perfect weather for a sweaty walk in the hills. I hope you enjoyed the pictures let me know what you think in the comments below, thats all for now.

Peace and Love,

Ciaran.

June 19, 2017 by ciaranbuckleyphotography Categories: Animal Photogrpahy, Ireland, LandscapeTags: Animals, Cahir, Clouds, Cows, Digital Photography, excercise, Flowers, Galtee Mór, Galtee Mountains, grazing cows, hiking, hiking in ireland, hill, hill walking, hill walking galtee mountains, holy cross, Ireland, irish countryside, irish hill walking, irish views, Irish Wildlife, landscape Photography, Leading Lines, munster, Nature, peaceful, Photography, pink flowers, relaxation, sheep, soil creep, summer, sun, sunny Ireland, things to do in ireland, tourism ireland, tranquility, visit ireland, walking 5 Comments

Blue Team Vs Red Team. A Tale of dragonflies.

Hello again my friends and enemies, the subject of todays post is dragonflies. In the last few weeks I’ve been lucky enough to spot a few of these colourful bastards hanging around the ponds and still waters of Coimbra. They move through the air pretty damn fast so it was difficult to get pictures of them in flight so I just went with the lazy option and waited till they land.

Blue Team.

Red Team:

So let me know what you think of them and feel free to share them with friends and co-workers.

Peace and Love,

Ciaran.

P.S. After a little bit of research I think all the dragonflies in my pictures are male, as males tend to perch on things and watch while the females fly around depositing eggs. And I think the red ones are called Red-Veined Darters and the blue ones are called blue dashers but hopefully an expert can tell me if I’m right or wrong about my research.

P.P.S I just found out that the blue team is actually damselflies not blue dashers. Lesson Learned.

May 3, 2017May 3, 2017 by ciaranbuckleyphotography Categories: Animal Photogrpahy, insects, Wildlife PhotographyTags: Animals, blue dasher, blue dragon fly, coimbra, cute, Digital Photography, dragonfly, fragon fly, Garden, insect, insects, Jardim Botanico De Coimbra, Macro, parque verde, Photography, Portugal, red Dragonfly, red veined darter, Reflection, Rio Mondego, wildlife, Wildlife Photography, winged beasts, wings Leave a comment

Its not easy being green.

There is a pond in the Jardim Botanico in Coimbra and in that pond is a load of frogs. The frogs are photogenic if you are willing to sit there are wait for them to start striking poses. I hope you enjoy the pics of my Amphibian Friends.

Just a frog sunbathing in the Jardim Botanico in Coimbra.

A frog under a leaf in a pond.

A frog on a leaf in a pond.

A frog lurking on a leaf in a pond.

Just a frog sunbathing in the Jardim Botanico in Coimbra.

A winking frog

I was able to get some nice shots of them in a quiet times of reflection.

A frog on a leaf in a pond.

A frog under a leaf in a pond.

And for the last few days they have been really noisy and puffing their cheeks a lot.

Chubby cheeks

The frog is doing push ups.

This frog is doing his best impression of Princess Leia with the bun.

I think he is either showing off to the lady frogs or trying to scare off the male competition.

Well thats the end of it today, so let me know what you think of them and feel free to share them with friends and co-workers.

Peace and Love,

Ciaran.

P.S If anyone can explain the difference between a frog and toad that would be great, I’m too lazy to google it.

April 12, 2017 by ciaranbuckleyphotography Categories: Animal PhotogrpahyTags: Amphibian, Amphibian Friends, Animal Photographer, Animal Photography, Animals, coimbra, Digital Photography, Frogs, Jardim Botanico De Coimbra, Nature, Nature Photography, Photography, pond, pond dwellers, Portugal, toad, toads, wildlife, Wildlife Photography Leave a comment

Birds Part II, the quest for plumage.

For the last few months I’ve been trying to get out into nature and move as silently as possible so that I can get some decent pictures of birds. Compared to my previous post I made about birds I think these pictures are of a higher standard, I hope you enjoy them.

A tit in the sunshine.

A blue tit on a branch

Not sure what this bird is.

a chaffinch hanging around in the garden

The mighty crow looking handsome.

The mighty crow looking handsome.

It turns out that Robins are pretty comfortable in front of the camera and enjoy having their picture taken.

The mighty Robin looking handsome.

The mighty Robin looking handsome.

The mighty Robin resting on a wire.

The robin red breast hiding in some underbrush.

The mighty Robin looking handsome.

The mighty Robin looking handsome with his feathers looking puffed.

Seagulls are an interesting bunch, I always think that if they could speak they would hassle you for cigarettes.

The notoriously camera shy seagull turns his back on me.

A flock of gulls.

I’ll take you under my wing(quite literally) and teach you to be a fully fledged member of seagull society.

an faoileán

I never knew starlings would be so so photogenic, I was really happy with how the last starling picture turned out.

I really hope you get as much enjoyment out of looking at these pictures as I got out of taking them, well anyways that is enough rambling out of me so let me know what you think in the comments.

Also I’ve gotten quite lazy with posting to the blog recently so I’ll do my best to get the thumb out, keep it out and post more regularly.

Peace and Love,

The Great Hairy One.

April 5, 2017April 5, 2017 by ciaranbuckleyphotography Categories: Animal Photogrpahy, birds, Nature, UncategorizedTags: Animal Photographer, Animal Photography, Animals, Avian, bird, blue tit, budgie, canon Photography, canon1200d, chaffinch, Common Irish Birds, crow, crows, Digital Photography, flock, Garden Birds, Irish Wildlife, Life in the Undergrowth, Park, parque chopal, Photography, plumage, Portugal, Rio Mondego, robin, robin red breast, seagull, starling, starlings, wings Leave a comment

Coimbra, the city of Hills.

These are some of the picture of Coimbra that I have taken in the last few weeks. Its a really cool city but incredibly hilly which doesn’t agree with my feeble legs. But apart from the hills it has a really nice Botanical Garden, one of the Oldest Universities in the land and some nice parks and views so all in all its not a bad place to live.

Some ducks going for an evening stroll on the Mondego River.

This guy(or girl) lives in a pond in the Botanical Gardens in the University of Coimbra

for some reason this rose was growing upside down

a seagull swooping down to catch a fish

a statue of Queen Isabella looking out over Coimbra

The view from the top of one of the many hills in Coimbra

The Clock tower in the university

The view from the University as the sun sets.

One of the many churches in Coimbra

The university of Coimbra in the sunshine.

Parque Verde Street Lights — A slow exposure shot of the trees in the lights in the park to get the star effect.

Rio Mondego Sunset Blue Skys — The Mondego river just before sunset

Sunset Parque Verde Coimbra — The walkway next to Mondego River river just as the sun is setting.

Rio Mondego Golden Hour — The Mondego River just after the sun has gone behind the hills

I really hope you enjoyed these picture, I was really happy with how they turned out but they are by no means perfect and my quest to take a perfect picture goes on. That is enough from me for now let me know what you think in the comments and feel free to share them with your pets or whom ever you think might enjoy them.

Peace and Love,

The Foxy Prophet.

December 1, 2016December 1, 2016 by ciaranbuckleyphotography Categories: Animal Photogrpahy, birds, Landscape, Nature, night time Photography, UncategorizedTags: Animals, bird, Blue Sky, canon Photography, canon1200d, Church, coimbra, Digital Photography, Ducks, Dusk, Flower Photography, Flower Power, golden hour, Jardim Botanico De Coimbra, Leading Lines, Light Pollution, Long Exposure, Long Exposure Photography, Mondego River, night time, night time Photography, Photography, Portugal, Queen Isabella, Reflection, Rio Mondego, River, seagull, Statue, Street Lights, Trees, Water Leave a comment

Friends of the Ornithological Variety.

A-well-a ev’rybody’s heard about the bird bird bird bird
B-bird’s the word oh well-a bird bird bird
Bird is a word oh well-a bird bird bird
Well-a bird is the word oh well-a bird bird bird

If you are still reading this fair play to you, I was going to put the full set of lyrics to that song but I don’t think anybody wants that. So if you haven’t guessed by now today lesson is being brought to you by the letter B for bird.

I hope you enjoyed the picture of these feathered fiends, let me know what you thought of them in the comments below.

Peace and Love,

The Foxy Prophet.

October 23, 2016October 23, 2016 by ciaranbuckleyphotography Categories: Animal Photogrpahy, birds, NatureTags: Animals, Atlantic Ocean, bird, Budgerigar, budgie, canon Photography, canon1200d, Digital Photography, flock, flying v, Paco De Arcos, Park, Photography, pigeon, pigeons, Portugal, Sea, seagull, wings 3 Comments

Dog Day Afternoon.

So the other day I was on the train and I saw a poster advertising a Festa dos Animais(Animal Party) in the Parque Muncipal de Oeiras so I decided to go along with my camera. There was a bunch of demonstrations from obedience schools and one from the Air Force, there were stalls selling pet apparatus and stall for adopting stray kittens. People brought along their pets too there was easily around 300 dogs in the park that day, below are pictures of some of the furry friends that I made.