http://www.mauramcdonnell.com Freelance Web Designer, Carlow - Photoshop, Dreamweaver, xHTML, CSS, CMS, Blog, Wordpress, Drupal, Shopify Thu, 01 Jul 2010 12:41:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/photographs/christmas-scenes-limerick/ http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/photographs/christmas-scenes-limerick/#comments Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:58:15 +0000 admin http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/?p=1070 Christmas morning - photographs taken on christmas morning 2009 - Limerick ]]> http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/photographs/christmas-scenes-limerick/feed/ 0 http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/photographs/autumn/ http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/photographs/autumn/#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:30:11 +0000 admin http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/?p=895 Taking a few photos for a video I intend to make called Autumn Gold.  I took myself off to Carlow Oak Park for a feast of autumn colours.  I took this photo under the tree. Under Autumn ]]> http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/photographs/autumn/feed/ 0 http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/photographs/front-garden-developments/ http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/photographs/front-garden-developments/#comments Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:57:15 +0000 http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/?p=875 When I redesigned my website (nearly two years ago now!) the first post I did was to post photographs from the newly sown lawn from our back garden.  Well, the front garden has also been re sown and we spent a great deal of time drawing out simple designs for laying out a path, grass [...]]]> http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/photographs/front-garden-developments/feed/ 0 http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/photographs/easter-hat-new-york/ http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/photographs/easter-hat-new-york/#comments Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:15:39 +0000 http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/?p=467 Came across a very flowery hat at the easter parade in New York. Not sure if its going to take the fashion world by storm, but definitely drew the cameras this day.  It was amazing to see so many artistic creations as people walked down fifth avenue.  No traffic, just lots of people out [...]]]> http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/photographs/easter-hat-new-york/feed/ 0 http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/photographs/view-of-river-liffey-dublin/ http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/photographs/view-of-river-liffey-dublin/#comments Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:41:52 +0000 http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/?p=569 This photo was taken on a short break in Dublin – went to a concert and chilled with this amazing view from the balcony window – down near the O2 venue near the IFSC center.     ]]> http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/photographs/view-of-river-liffey-dublin/feed/ 1 http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/photographs/snowy-bench/ http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/photographs/snowy-bench/#comments Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:51:18 +0000 http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/?p=448 Snow time hits carlow. After years of telling my family and my parents who live in leitrim (north west of Ireland) that the climate in carlow some 125 miles away is like living in the mediteranean in comparison to living in the north west…..well the tables turned this february. Chatting to my mother [...]]]> http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/photographs/snowy-bench/feed/ 1 http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/photographs/christmas-greetings-2008/ http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/photographs/christmas-greetings-2008/#comments Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:22:43 +0000 admin http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/?p=405 Here is my christmas tree, with a little photo manipulation added to bring out the light edges on the surrounding objects……still kind of looks like this when you look at the tree in a darkened room. Happy Christmas ]]> http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/photographs/christmas-greetings-2008/feed/ 0 http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/photographs/this-is-the-way-to-skate/ http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/photographs/this-is-the-way-to-skate/#comments Sun, 14 Dec 2008 12:04:18 +0000 http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/?p=312 Last March, I was lucky enough to go to New York for a few days with my daughter, sister, her husband and daughter.  It was a wonderful break and a beautiful city. It was cold and we headed down to the ice rink at the Rockefeller center a couple of times, I didn’t dare venture on [...]]]> http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/photographs/this-is-the-way-to-skate/feed/ 0 http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/photographs/header-image/ http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/photographs/header-image/#comments Sat, 23 Aug 2008 13:47:08 +0000 admin http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/?p=97 The header image at the top of each page, was created by digitally manipulating a photograph of incredible flowers taken at Altamount Gardens, Tullow, Carlow. The positioning of the flowers in the header area, creates some variety as different pages are loaded into the browser.]]> http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/photographs/header-image/feed/ 5 http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/photographs/leaf/ http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/photographs/leaf/#comments Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:14:35 +0000 admin http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/blog-posts/leaf/ This photo was taken at my parents home in Co. Leitrim. It was quite a small leaf, it was the winter light that caught my eye as it blasted through the colours of the leaf. ]]> http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/photographs/leaf/feed/ 3