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So far, my blog has been hosted with Blogger (this site), but I've decided to move to a Wordpress blog.  There are a few reasons for this, the main one being that by hosting the blog myself it allows me complete control over the look and feel (but also the responsibility for backups etc!).

Don't get me wrong, I've been very happy with Blogger - in fact, I've got quite cross with Wordpress recently as the formatting was causing me all sorts of trouble!  But it does seem that Wordpress has a lot more options and capability, and I'd like to get some experience in both using a different engine and hosting it myself.

So, you can continue to follow my exploits at http://www.reikanphotography.co.uk/blog.  That is, as long as I haven't broken anything :)  All the posts I've done to date will be there (the import utility is great).

Ireland 2010 Days 4 & 5 - Clare and the Cliff of Moher

The next part of photos and journal from our family trip to Ireland, this bit is mainly about our visit to County Clare and the Cliffs of Moher.  It started as part of a bigger post, but I kept adding more information about the places we visited, so I've left it as just these 2 days...

Sunset at Beal, County Kerry, Ireland

Sunrise at Hengistbury Head (...and a bit of afternoon too)

It's been a while since I dragged myself out of bed stupidly early to go out with a camera and tripod and photograph something, but it's such a beautiful time of day and it's getting slightly more sensibly timed so I decided to this morning.  Sunrise was at 0615, so I set my alarm for 0500 and got going very quickly (without even a cup of coffee!), driving from home to Hengistbury Head.

Hengistbury Head Beach Huts

Ireland 2010 Days 1-3 - Travelling, Ballybunion and the Dingle Peninsula

This next set of posts on the blog are going to be a dump of my favourite pictures from our holiday to both sides of Ireland in August 2010.  We went for a week in Ballybunion (County Kerry) and then a week in Enniscorthy (County Wexford).  This is a kind-of photo journal of the holiday, so lots of various pictures and some waffling too :)

Harry - Excited before we left, he wrote "Holiday Ireland - Yahoo!" on his hand!

Hampshire and Dorset Fields (and a Bridge!)

It was ridiculously hot on this particular day (at least for the UK) - a little over 30 degrees at lunch time when I decided to drive out to Beech Hill and take some shots in the fields around that area.  There were lots of wheat fields, and the sky was nice - blue with enough clouds to give some interest:

Hampshire Field

Milton Abbas, Hilton and Bulbarrow

I may have already mentioned this (ahem), but I did a 100 mile cycle ride for "charidy" in early July which involved cycling through lots of Dorset (you can read about it here if you've really got nothing better to do).  While doing it, I saw some absolutely beautiful areas, a lot of which I'd never visited before despite living less than about 20 miles from most of the places.  So, I decided to drive back out to some parts of the route one evening and get some shots.

Dorset Field Sunset

Sunset at Tarrant Keyneston

On this particular evening, I wanted to try and capture something in or around Wimborne.  The sky wasn't looking too promising - there was a lot of cloud near the horizon which tends to mean that as the sun gets close to setting it is obscured and the lighting goes very dull and uninteresting.  But I have learnt a few things over the years, and knowing that (a) conditions change, (b) I love being outside with the camera, and (c) if you don't try you won't get anything got me out!

Tarrant Keyneston Sunset I