Thursday, 8th July, 2010 · 9:30 am
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Dominick Cullinane

Now for a change of pace. People-free documentary photography. And all in colour too.

Dominick Cullinane is a terrific garden designer who lives here in Co. Cork. He is a man with a true passion and drive. His dream is to design a garden for the Chelsea Flower Show. My dream is to have him design one for me.

One of Dominick’s regular jobs is curating the annual Mallow Garden Festival, half an hour up the road from me. This year he asked me to shoot some stills of the gardens. The weather could have been kinder to us, but we still managed to fit in few hours spread over two days.

He also asked me to shoot some video, something I’ve been meaning to look into, but hadn’t really found the time for. Now my hand has been forced and I’ll be working on a short film in the days ahead. More to come on that.

Meanwhile, here is a quick selection of stills from the Mallow gardens.

Dominick Cullinane - Mallow Garden Festival

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Dominick Cullinane - Mallow Garden Festival

(c) Roger Overall 2010

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  • http://www.someprettythings.com/blog Shannon

    Loving the wind through the tree leaves in the second waterfall photograph. And there are definitely too many glorious colours here to have converted to black and white.

  • http://www.rogerverall.net Roger Overall

    Thanks Shannon. It was blowing so hard at one point that it blew the waterfall in that photograph sideways. I was kneeling down quite near to it at the time. If the wind had come from the opposite direction I would have been soaked.

  • Mags

    Beautiful perspectives, Roger. I didn’t get an opporunity to go to the show this year – your pictures look so exotic, it’s hard to believe that it is just a ten minute drive away from where I live.

  • http://www.rogerverall.net Roger Overall

    Hi Mags,

    Thanks for your comment.

    I live 30 minutes away from Mallow, so the picture appear 3x more exotic to you.

  • http://omaniblog.blogs.ie Paul O’Mahony (Cork)

    Spiders’ webs & wood for me – they’re the ones I like best.
    You’ve made Mallow look a suburb of Cannes…

    Good on Dominick Cullinane for appreciating the value of hiring a pro to shoot his work.

  • http://www.curiouswines.ie/ Matt Kane

    Stunning. Good work Dom, and lovely pics, Roger.

  • http://www.gm-photo.com Gabrielleq

    Like the shots, despite the lack of people in it as you put it. Flowers and gardens can be tricky and fickle to shoot. Well done!

  • http://www.rogerverall.net Roger Overall

    Thanks Gabrielle!