Landscape Photographs by Neville Dukes

This website is the product of a personal life-long interest in landscape and nature photography, originally using mainly colour slide film and, since 2001, digital.

Just as the development of digital photographic capture, processing and storage represents a major step forward for professional photographers it has meant a whole new dimension to the art for many amateur photographers. I have been using 35 mm. cameras for a long number of years and have digitally scanned and archived a selection of my transparencies and negatives.

As all of my photographs now are digital the website seems to be a logical but simple step to share my work with a wider audience.

Like many other landscape and nature photographers I am conscious of a need to capture images of nature before it is changed irreversibly by those who would dictate where and how we should live in order to satisfy their personal financial greed with little or no regard for the environment or our quality of life. I believe strongly in preservation of a wonderfully diverse world for those who come after us and consider that we, with our grandiose plans and desperate need to consume everything in sight, really have no right to deprive future generations of things previous generations have valued and enjoyed but which seem nowadays to have gone out of our focus.

Most of the photographs are from Counties Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford and other parts of Ireland including the Mournes. In addition I have included some from places I have visited such as, Venice (Italy), Malta and Norfolk, England.


Digital processing ethics

I personally like to limit use of digital editing to create photographs which would be achievable using traditional film based capture and processing rather than photographs which rely heavily on digital processing.


Cameras

I currently use a Nikon D300 with these lenses:-

Nikkor 18-70mm
Nikkor 70-300mm VR
Sigma 10-20mm
Sigma 50mm Macro

I also use a Panasonic DMC FX01 as a handy pocket camera.

Other cameras used were:-

Olympus OM1n
Canon EOS 500
Olympus Camedia E-10
Canon EOS 300d
Canon EOS 350d
Canon EOS 5d
Canon IXUS 430


(Date taken is displayed for all photographs. As this is not available for those made with film cameras the date displayed is estimated.)


Contact me

If you would like to e-mail me with your comments or if you would like any information about any of the photographs click here.


Links:-


Landscape and Nature Photography by Marcus Günther

Marcus is based in County Kerry. He has successfully captured the real flavour of his local landscape and coastline in some wonderfully executed photographs. He has also included some great pictures from Croatia and Italy.



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South East Angling Ireland

When you want to travel to an angling destination with a minimum amount of tackle and equipment and yet remain sure of experiencing some of Europe's most exciting saltwater Sportfishing then make Wexford, Ireland, your destination.



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Irish Bass Protection and Awareness Group

The Irish Bass Protection and Awareness Group was formed in response to the decline of European Sea Bass (Dicentrarchus Labrax) in Irish coastal waters. Shore angling for Bass is an important amenity along the south-east coast of Ireland and is potentially threatened by illegal commercial over-fishing.



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