Christmas at Home!

 We have been waiting for Christmas for so long... we have had plans to go home and visit family for most of 2010. Unfortunately Mother Nature had other ideas and decided that most of Europe needed to be closed down! We did get home, but it took us 4 days to get there!

While we were home I took a couple of days to go to Phoenix Park, North Bull Island and Ashton Court. It was a very different experience to my normal photography - thermal underwear, waterproof outerwear and heavy gloves - all of which made it difficult to manipulate camera controls or to be stealthy. It was also very difficult working in very overcast conditions and I had to struggle for every shot I made, often incurring lots of noise.
Despite these challenges, I had lots of fun and thoroughly enjoyed myself. Here is a selection from the trip:

Red Deer

Fallow Deer

Common Gull

Curlew

Buccinidae Shell

Common Seal