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Rosie Nixon

@rosienixon.com

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Fine art nature photographer based in Co Armagh. I spend my free time shooting intimate landscapes, flowers and birds in the Mourne mountains, Cooley Peninsula & Co Louth coastline in Ireland. www.rosienixon.com

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Rosie Nixon @rosienixon.com · Nov 15

I love anemone flowers wild & cultivated as I find them so photogenic. This image was included in my 'Say it With Flowers' solo exhibition in Edinburgh a few years ago at one of the only photographic galleries in Scotland. #flowerphotography #leavesnbloom #flowers #nature #photography #floralfriday

purple anemone flower macro showing the detail in the centre of the flower

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Rosie Nixon @rosienixon.com · 3d

A pre-dawn glow rises behind Hen Mountain, outlining its rugged tors as fog clings just below the summit. While in the foreground, small heather plants with their vibrant purple blooms thrive against the odds in the weathered rock crevices.
#MourneMountains #NorthernIreland #photography #Ireland

In the photo is a large rock surrounded by grass and 2 heather plants with purple blooms. In the midground there is fog while in the background there is Hen Mountain with its jagged tors and behind the mountain is a pre dawn yellow glow from the sun rising.

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Rosie Nixon @rosienixon.com · 3d

thank you

Rosie Nixon @rosienixon.com · 6d

Yes indeed… must be plenty of bramley apples on the ground after Storm Amy. Plus that area used to be ‘bandit country’ with army towers all over the landscape.

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Rosie Nixon @rosienixon.com · 7d

A South Armagh golden glow! Taken from Black Mountain, surrounded by gorgeous pink heather, a sunburst peeks through the clouds over the Ring of Gullion, lighting up Jonesborough and Forkhill below.

#SouthArmagh #Nature #Photography #RingofGullion #BlackMountain #Ireland

Golden fingers of God sunburst through the clouds illuminating the south armagh countryside below. Slieve Gullion mountain to the right and in the foreground is pink heather and some green conifers.

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Rosie Nixon @rosienixon.com · 13d

Wow that’s great to know, thanks.

Rosie Nixon @rosienixon.com · 14d

We haven’t been to Keel point or Murlough yet.

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Rosie Nixon @rosienixon.com · 14d

We photographed some this week on the Rossglass coastline. They seem to have a favourite spot to sit in the sun in the mornings as we have watched them a few times over the last 2 weeks at the same spot.

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Rosie Nixon @rosienixon.com · 14d

Yes it’s a great place for sunsets over the mournes. We were primarily over there to photograph birds this week incase there were still some northern wheatears around.

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Rosie Nixon @rosienixon.com · 14d

Gorgeous

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Rosie Nixon @rosienixon.com · 14d

Dawn broke at Rossglass Beach, my landscape camera poised on the tripod pointing towards the Mournes. But a glowing sky elsewhere stole the show. So I grabbed my birding camera and zoomed in on St John’s Lighthouse with its striking yellow and black tower. #sunrise #stjohnspointlighthouse #ireland

A yellow and black painted lighthouse against a yellow sky at sunrise with some much darker clouds on the top of the frame and a shaft of light shining across the grass in front of the lighthouse.

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Rosie Nixon @rosienixon.com · Jun 11

Thanks

Rosie Nixon @rosienixon.com · Jun 11

We can’t wait to go back again next year!

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Michael Cummins Photography @michaelcummins.co.uk · Jun 11

Reflections on the Wye at Water-cum-Jolly-Dale
#PeakDistrict #derbyshire

Autumn reflections on the river Wye at Water-cum-Jolly-Dale in Derbyshire - © Michael Cummins Photography

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Damian Shields @damianshields.bsky.social · Jun 11

Falls on the River Cononish #Scotland #Perthshire #Trossachs www.damianshields.com

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Rosie Nixon @rosienixon.com · Jun 11

Thanks Mamady

Rosie Nixon @rosienixon.com · Jun 10

Love the blur around this puffin.

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Tony Fluerty @tonyfluerty.bsky.social · Jun 10

An Atlantic Puffin in the late afternoon light with food for his or her wee family. Saltee Island, Ireland. #birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #ireland #nature #naturephotography #BirdsOfBsky #Irishwildlife #ukbirds #birdsofIreland #fotographie #wildlifephotography #puffins

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Rosie Nixon @rosienixon.com · Jun 10

Thanks Archie

Rosie Nixon @rosienixon.com · Jun 10

The ferry crossing was fine but coming back at 9pm the dinghy and the boat were rocking like crazy left and right so it was a bit daunting getting back on to the ferry again.

Rosie Nixon @rosienixon.com · Jun 10

Thanks Rob

Rosie Nixon @rosienixon.com · Jun 10

Many thanks and yes they are the cutest wee birds.

Rosie Nixon @rosienixon.com · Jun 10

thanks

Rosie Nixon @rosienixon.com · Jun 10

A puffin comes into focus out of a hazy swathe of sea thrift flowers.

#salteeislands #wexford #ireland #wildlifephotography #fotographie #birds #puffins #photography

An atlantic puffin with its tangerine and yellow beak and black and white feathers emerges from the blurry pink sea thrift flowers.

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Rosie Nixon @rosienixon.com · Jun 10

thanks Mark

Rosie Nixon @rosienixon.com · Jun 9

It just landed in front of me … I always wanted a shot like this but didn’t think I’d get one.

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