photoblog – garybarnett.uk

Dunmore Wind Farm, September 2024

Gary — Sat, 02 May 2026 09:36:07 +0000

Located on the Coleraine–Limavady route, overlooking Lough Foyle with Donegal across the water, set beneath the Binevenagh area.

View of Lough Foyle, with Donegal across the water

Brown Hare in the Golden Hour, August 2025

Gary — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:49:43 +0000

At the edge of the harvested wheat field on the warm August evening.

October 2024 Collection

Gary — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 19:24:16 +0000

I was sifting through my photo collection, month by month and year by year. October 2024 has just stood out as the most colourful month in the past few years. I selected 40 of them and put them all here. It’s just a combination of beautiful varied weather and an autumn sky.

Winter Stroll on Portrush’s West Strand, December 2025

Gary — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 18:05:10 +0000

Toward the end of December, the sun was shining low, and the sky had a slight pink cast.

Harvest Moon, 18th September 2024

Gary — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 20:04:35 +0000

These pictures were taken on the same day as the Harvest Moon, along with the pictures of the evening dusk.

The first two images were taken in the early morning, and the last image was of the Super Harvest Moon in the evening. The 18th of September was a very colourful day.

Coagh Riverside Park & Playground, October 2025

Gary — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 19:48:19 +0000

Autumn is the time of the year when colourful leaves and weather show up, especially in the mornings and evenings.

Coagh Riverside Park is a minimal riverside woodland; it takes just 5 minutes or so to walk around, but it is a lovely wood beside the large Ballinderry River, which heads out into Lough Neagh just a few miles away.

As I took these pictures on separate dates, I decided to separate them into two galleries. Jump to:

Coagh Riverside Park
Coagh Park Playground

Coagh Riverside Park

Coagh Park Playground

Coagh Bridge has five cut-stone arches.

Wet Autumn Morning Walk in the Countryside, October 2025

Gary — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 18:27:40 +0000

The autumn morning walk took place a day after a particularly heavy downpour on Sunday. The autumn season is a great time to go out, especially with its colourful weather and landscape.

Autumn Stroll at the Springhill, October 2025

Gary — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 19:49:32 +0000

Springhill, located on the edge of Moneymore, offers a delightfully colourful autumn walk. One of my favourite ‘sweet & short’ casual walks. There are plenty of intriguing footpaths to explore, as well as some fascinating trees and plants to view.

Wellbrook Beetling Mill, September 2025

Gary — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 19:28:17 +0000

Wellbrook Beetling Mill is the only beetling mill in the UK that can be visited. Just behind the mill, there is a delightful stroll through the wooded glen.

The workers at Wellbrook Beetling Mill used a form of sign language to communicate because the beetling machinery, which pounded linen with wooden hammers, produced loud, deafening noise. This was a necessary adaptation for daily communication in the mill environment.

This mill is just five miles on the road from Cookstown via A505.

Brown Hare, August 2025

Gary — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 18:12:08 +0000

I have just managed to capture a full-body image of a brown hare, especially without the grass covering its feet. Its appearance is different from the Irish hare; I wasn’t even aware of the difference in species of hares in the UK/Ireland! See my other post on Irish hare; they seemed to have shorter ears and brown fur.