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Bord na Mona—Empties in the evening.

Hazy, bright sunshine prevailed over the Irish Midlands at Corbane, near Ferbane (Co. Offaly) on the evening of August 23, 2014

We had been following an empty Bord na Móna train of peat wagons returning to the bog for reloading. This was a rarely photographed portion of the three-foot-gauge network, and located a considerable distance from the Shannonbridge Generating Station where the peat would be burned for electricity.

This location was uncharacteristic of the Bord na Móna network that mostly crossed bogland. Here, on higher ground, the line passes through a cutting, where the tiny locomotives would struggle ascending a grade.

I made this view with my Canon EOS 7D fitted with an f/2.8 200mm prime telephoto lens. Last night, I processed the Canon CR2 Raw file using DxO PureRAW 5, then made post-processing cosmetic edits with DxO PhotoLab 9.

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Bord na Mona-March 2, 2013

This day ten years ago, photographer Denis McCabe and I traveled to Lanesborough, Co. Longford, Ireland to photograph the Bord na Mona (Irish Peat Board) three foot gauge industrial railway.

The system around Lanesborough was the most charming and photogenic of the larger Bord na Mona operations.

On March 2, 2013, the weather was suitably Irish; misty, cool and damp.

I made these images using a Lumix LX3 pocket digital camera. I exposed the original files as RAW and processed them using Adobe Lightroom to make scaled JPGs for internet presentation.