About me

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Me, me, me. It’s all about me. (Only joking).

I’m Patrick (Pa) Dinneen, from Cork but living in Galway, West Ireland and ‘m an enthusiastic amateur photographer. Most photos here are taken from around Galway but don’t fall into any one particular category, just anything that catches my eye.
Every single photo post has a musical reference as its title. It could be an album or song title, lyrics or band names, whatever relates to the photo best. And they’re all artists/bands that I love.

This website contains my favourite pictures; you can see the good, the bad and the ugly on my Flickr page. You can follow my (mainly) photography tweets on Twitter, where I go under the name of ‘photoblog_ie’.

My Photography Equiptment

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“If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn’t need to lug around a camera.”- Lewis Hine.
I shoot mainly with a Pentax K-7 DSLR. A lot of people ask why a Pentax, or rather ask why not a Canon or Nikon? The answer, I suppose is because it got great reviews and I like the feel of it.

I also keep a Samsung WB6000 compact on me/in the car for anything I stumble upon and don’t have my Pentax with me. It’s very pocketable and good for macro/close up shots. I’d recommend that you always have a camera within reach. As they say- “the best camera in the world is the one you have on you.”
 
LENSES & OTHERS

• Sigma 70-200 f2.8 Sports lens
• Tamron 18-55 f2.8 lens
• Pentax 100mm f2.8 1:1 macro lens
• Sigma 30mm f1.4 lens. This is great for low-light photography and blurred background photos (think portraits).
• I have a cheap Pentax AF280-T flash (which i never use to be honest). It’s my first flash and my plan was to play around with it and upgrade to a better one if I used it much.
• I use a Slingshot AW 202 rucksack. It’s like a mini rucksack which can swing around to the front of your body very quickly without having to take it off. Highly recommended.

All photographs on this website are copyright of Patrick Dinneen and may not be used without permission.

P.S. Not Photography related

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I’m 36 years old/young, live in Galway, am married and have two lovely young kids. I also love music (mainly alternative and electronic), films, sports and reading. That’s all folks.