Off Mike - Mike Murphy's life in broadcasting & art.

We met up with the wonderfully charming radio & television doyen Mike Murphy recently. We needed to do his portrait for an upcoming fund raising talk he is giving for Highlanes Gallery in Drogheda. As a young boy growing up I spent all my breakfast times listening to Mike on his radio breakfast show. It was the only radio show. There was only one radio station. It never went to his head. He is a delight to work with. With his voice of honey as good as it was when I listened to him all those years ago. 
Go to Highlanes Gallery web site: http://www.highlanes.ie/Activity.aspx?ActivityID=254 for more information on the event.

Contact me if you wish to discuss any aspect of photography:

Eugene Langan Photography

Studio Eight, 

32 Northbrunswick St., 

Dublin 7.

Tel. 01.7645753  Mob. 087.2597907

e-mail. langan@indigo.ie

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                                  Foodblog: http://foodphotographytips.blogspot.com

Barry Douglas's latest release Brahms - Vol III.

Spent a day recently photographing the renowned pianist Barry Douglas. He is a lovely man to work with and what an incredibly talented pianist. It was a lovely day and I think I can say we all had a very creative and fun time with everybody working together and generating a great atmosphere. Stephen McCusker did a wonderful job on hair and Julie-Ann Ryan did an equally great job on make up. We spent time in the studio and also at a few near by city locations, photographing both Barry and the very talented flautist Eimear McGeown. The photography is being used for new releases - Celtic Reflections and the just released Brahms Vol III, Works for Solo Piano and general publicity.  
You can listen to the music at: http://www.barrydouglas.com

 

Contact me if you wish to discuss any aspect of photography:

Eugene Langan Photography

Studio Eight, 

32 Northbrunswick St., 

Dublin 7.

Tel. 01.7645753  Mob. 087.2597907

e-mail. langan@indigo.ie

                                            web. http://www.eugenelangan.com

                                  Foodblog: http://foodphotographytips.blogspot.com

Sitters with their Bite Project portraits

It was lovely to meet some of the people that sat for their portrait at the Bite Project exhibition at Taste of Dublin. The weather was cracking and the atmosphere was great at the event. You could here the tills ringing right across the city. 

Here are the few people I got to photograph on my iPhone with their portraits.  

                                    

                               

Contact me if you wish to discuss any aspect of photography:

Eugene Langan Photography

Studio Eight, 

32 Northbrunswick St., 

Dublin 7.

Tel. 01.7645753  Mob. 087.2597907

e-mail. langan@indigo.ie

                                            web. http://www.eugenelangan.com

                                  Foodblog: http://foodphotographytips.blogspot.com

Howth Selfie

I just caught this group doing a selfie at the start of the East Pier in Howth. I only had my iPhone to hand. But considering the shot was taken on a phone, and with a bit of post production tweaking, it looks pretty good to me. Nice selfie extension pole too.

Contact me if you wish to discuss any aspect of photography:

Eugene Langan Photography

Studio Eight, 

32 Northbrunswick St., 

Dublin 7.

Tel. 01.7645753  Mob. 087.2597907

e-mail. langan@indigo.ie

                                            web. http://www.eugenelangan.com

                                  Foodblog: http://foodphotographytips.blogspot.com

Grey Heron on the Grand Canal.

There was a time when grey herons were one of the shyist birds in the country. But over the last 20 years they have been moving into more urban areas. And with this move into the city the have become much more comfortable in the presence of humans. This one I met on the canal recently. The bird was two metres at most away from me and not bothered at all by my presence. And continued to enjoy its lunch of something slimey.

Contact me if you wish to discuss any aspect of photography:

Eugene Langan Photography

Studio Eight, 

32 Northbrunswick St., 

Dublin 7.

Tel. 01.7645753  Mob. 087.2597907

e-mail. langan@indigo.ie

                                        web. http://www.eugenelangan.com

                             Foodblog: http://foodphotographytips.blogspot.com

Bewley's Café Archive

I was really delighted to be asked by Bewley's Café on Grafton St., Dublin, to photograph contemporary activity for their own historical archive. Bewley's Café, with its long history, have lots of images and photographs from the past but very little from today. So it was a real honour for me to work my way around the cafe and photograph all that happens in a day in such a beautiful Dublin icon. The biggest challenge was dealing with the very low light levels. I was able to draw on the ever changing advancements in digital technology to over come this. I am still flabbergasted when I compare this process to when I started out in photography using film. You can view a selection of prints in Bewley's Café on Grafton St., when you order you next coffee.

Here are some of the results.

Contact me if you wish to discuss any aspect of photography:

Eugene Langan Photography

Studio Eight, 

32 Northbrunswick St., 

Dublin 7.

Tel. 01.7645753  Mob. 087.2597907

e-mail. langan@indigo.ie

                                        web. http://www.eugenelangan.com

                             Foodblog: http://foodphotographytips.blogspot.com

Iveagh Trust Museum Flat.

I worked with the Iveagh Trust photographing some of their properties around the city of Dublin.

The Trust was set up in 1890 by Edward Guinness, the first Lord Iveagh, to alleviate the housing crisis in Dublin.

In 1907 Nellie Molloy was born in Flat 3. Nellie lived there for her whole life and passed away in 2002. Along with her family the Iveagh Trust decided that Molly's flat be kept as she had left it . Over the years Molly had gratefully turned down offers by the Trust to upgrade her flat. As a result we have this wonderful time capsule, The Museum Flat in the Iveagh Buildings where time has stood still. You can arrange a visit to the flat yourself if you call the Iveagh Trust for an appointment.

Here is a sneak look at the flat for you.

                        Contact me if you wish to discuss any aspect of photography:

Eugene Langan Photography

Studio Eight, 

32 Northbrunswick St., 

Dublin 7.

Tel. 01.7645753  Mob. 087.2597907

e-mail. langan@indigo.ie

                                        web. http://www.eugenelangan.com

                             Foodblog: http://foodphotographytips.blogspot.com

The Bite Project

The Bite Project is a series of beautiful portraits of people involved in the many different aspects of food in Ireland. Ranging from growers to food critics, urban gardeners to chefs, waitress to food historian ... a really diverse range of both people and roles. We had such great fun photographing this lovely group of people. I would like to say thank you to each of them for the patience and great humour during the shoot. The thirty portraits were exhibited at Taste of Dublin 2014. Food styling was done by Johan van der Merwe. And a really excellent make up job by Brian Ward. Have a look at some of the portraits here:

                                

                             

Contact me if you wish to discuss any aspect of photography:

Eugene Langan Photography

Studio Eight, 

32 Northbrunswick St., 

Dublin 7.

Tel. 01.7645753  Mob. 087.2597907

e-mail. langan@indigo.ie

                                        web. http://www.eugenelangan.com

                             Foodblog: http://foodphotographytips.blogspot.com