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| Mark (IWO) | February 8 2011, 12:44 PM Post #1 |
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![]() * Buoys in The Storm by Viktor Pressl: “This photograph was taken on Bundoran beach in Co Donegal. When my friends went surfing, I packed my gear and decided to go for a walk along the coast. Soon I got attracted by the buoys swinging in the waves. It took me some time to get the right timing but it was worth the wait and getting my socks wet.” A current exhibition by Czech and Slovak photographers living in Ireland focuses on the things they find unusual about their new home: changeable weather, other nationalities, the sea IRELAND’S EVER-CHANGING weather and its multi-ethnicity are among the many sources of inspiration for Czech and Slovak photographers living here who have opened an exhibition on the subject in Dublin. “People are very open-minded here. In Slovakia, we don’t have so many ethnic minorities as you do in Ireland. Moore Street is my favourite area to take photographs in Dublin. It’s like theatre down there,” says Marcel Macinga, who left Slovakia in 2007 to work for a multinational technology firm in Dublin. Macinga is one of nine photographers from the Czech Slovak Photo Club (Ireland) showing his work at the exhibition, which is being held at the European Commission office on Dawson Street. The club was set up in Dublin in 2007 to develop and popularise photography among the 20,000-strong Slovak and Czech community in Ireland, most of who arrived in the country following the big bang EU enlargement in 2004. Macinga, who is president of the club, says one of his big photographic influences is the New York street photographer Markus Hartel. “To get the real picture, you have to live in the community and that’s what I’ve been doing here,” he says. “Ireland is a very beautiful country and it has helped spark my passion for landscape photography. The scenery is very different to the Czech Republic and I particularly love photographing the sea,” says Viktor Pressl, a 29-year-old Czech amateur photographer who has lived in Ireland since 2005. ![]() Evening Blues by Viktor Pressl: “I photographed this beautiful rock formation at the end of Ventry beach in Dingle, Co Kerry. I quickly set up the tripod and tried to capture the orange hue in the sky, which is as a very important element of this shot. But for me, it’s the movement of the water that makes this photograph so dynamic.” MORE from the Irish Times |
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| Emiline3263 | July 5 2011, 10:16 PM Post #2 |
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Breathtaking photos love them
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