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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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"🍂 Embracing autumn’s magic in Northern Ireland! Vibrant trees, winding paths, and epic views fuel my soul. 📸 Capturing nature’s beauty keeps me grounded, even on tough days. What about you? 🌄 #AutumnAdventures #NaturePhotography #MourneMountains #LandscapePhotography
A scenic autumn landscape in the Mourne Mountains of Northern Ireland, featuring misty mountain summits under a cloudy sky. The foreground displays a winding gravel path through vibrant dead Bracken and trees with red and gold foliage. A solitary, leafless tree stands prominently on the left, with rolling hills and scattered houses visible in the distance.
October 23, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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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.
October 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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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.
October 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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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.
September 27, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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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
June 11, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Falls on the River Cononish #Scotland #Perthshire #Trossachs www.damianshields.com
Falls on the River Cononish #Scotland #Perthshire #Trossachs www.damianshields.com
June 11, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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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
An Atlantic Puffin in the late afternoon light with food for his or her wee family. Saltee Island, Ireland.
June 10, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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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.
June 10, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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Surrounded by pink sea thrift flowers and bathed in the gentle evening sunlight, our picnic on Great Saltee became an intimate encounter with these adorable wee puffins.

#salteeislands #wexford #ireland #wildlifephotography #fotographie #birds
A puffin with its wings open while among the pink blur of sea thrift wildflowers.
June 9, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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How many fish can you fit in a beak? …and still dripping wet. Taken yesterday evening in the soft golden evening light on the Saltee Islands off the coast of Wexford, Ireland. #birds #puffins #ireland #fotographie #photography #wildlifephotography
June 8, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Each feather is carefully attended to... a cormorant preening at Clogherhead in Co Louth yesterday. So good to finally get out again with the camera … can't believe that the last time was back in January.

#ireland #photography #fotographie #birds
March 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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You only ever get to experience something for the first time, once.
On a freezing cold July morning I got my first experience of Lake Matheson on the west coast of New Zealand's South Island. The year was 2007 and I was on the first of what was to become many trips away with my camera.
March 18, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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I've not been taking photos for the past few weeks so haven't been very active here. Sometimes we just need a break from the camera and social media and have a reset.
From my archives: this male reed bunting looks like he has a thick woolly scarf around his neck lol #birds #ireland #photography
A reed bunting bird perched on a single stem of dead grass with a blur of dead grass as the bokeh in the background.
February 20, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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To tug on one’s heart strings!

#photography #fotographie #ladybird #ladybug

(From my archives)
A 7 spot ladybird perched on the end of a stem of heart shaped dicentra flowers.
February 14, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Just when all hope of a sunrise had gone, a huge cloud started forming above us and the rising sun did the rest. This was what we has been hoping for and Rosie and I were subjected to a stunning light show at Flagstaff lookout.
#landscapephotograpy #fotographie #Irishlandscapes #beautifulIreland.
A cloud above the rising sun at Flagstaff lookout is illuminated creating a stunning light show. Ireland
February 4, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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There's just something about decaying hydrangea paniculata flowers. They look so attractive even in the middle of winter.

“It’s not about life or death, it’s about looking good ..the skeletons of the plants are for me as important as the flowers.” ~ Piet Oudolf

#flowers #photography #fotographie
A close up photo of a dried up creamed coloured hydrangea flower
January 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Tollymore Forest in Northern Ireland is a magnet for Irish and over seas photographers seeking some of the best autumn colours the Island of Ireland has to offer and I think the colours speak for themselves.
#landscapephotograpy #photography #Ireland #fotographie #Irishlandscapes #beautifulIreland
This image is of a little stream flowing through a forest filled with trees in autumn.
January 27, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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A male kōtare or Sacred Kingfisher warming up in the sun on a chilly morning on the Waikanae estuary. New Zealand wildlife.
#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #Newzealandwildlife
#nature #naturephotography #birdsofnewzealand #BirdsOfBsky #kingfisher #newzealand #aotearoa #kōtare
A male kōtare or Sacred Kingfisher warming up in the sun on a chilly morning on the Waikanae estuary.
January 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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After years of searching I finally got my first image of the ultra rare Elvis-tomtit. Sorry I cannot disclose the location of this bird, not that it really matters as he has already left his tree.
#birds #Newzealandwildlife
#nature #naturephotography #birdsofnewzealand #BirdsOfBsky #tomtit
A male south Island tomtit perched on a branch singing his head off
January 23, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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You don't always get a lovely winters sunrise at Seabank in county Louth, Ireland. But when you do you know you have an exciting day of birding ahead of you.
#landscapes #landscapephotograpy #photography #nature #Ireland #fotographie #Irishlandscapes #beautifulIreland #seabank #countylouth
A lovely winters sunrise at Seabank in county Louth, Ireland
January 21, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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~ Morning Glow ~

Is there still warmth and colours needed?

A male marbled white [Melanargia galathea] just before sunrise.

1/50s, f/4, 180mm, ISO-500

#Canon EOS R5 + EF 180mm f/3.5L Macro USM

#butterflies #Austria #Macro #insects #macrophotography
#naturephotography #bokeh
A photo of a ale marbled white butterfly [Melanargia galathea] still roosting just as the sun rises above the horizon. It is roosting on a knapweed plant and only the plant and butterfly are in focus. The surrounding vegetation is blurred by being out of focus, but you can still guess what it is. The blossoms are violet - and the scene is filled with a soft orange red light.
January 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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A moment of utter beauty as the mountains of the Canadian Rockies catch the first rays of light and emerge out of dense fog on a crisp, fresh autumn morning.

#photography #travel #bluesky #nature #landscape #naturephotography #landscapephotography #scape
January 22, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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DAWN MIST
Beautiful jaw dropping scenes across the Langdales last Thursday. #LakeDistrict #Cumbria #trees #forest #woods
#woodland #photography #landscapephotography #mist #fog
#OPOTY #jonnygios #sonyalpha #kasefilters
January 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Borrowdale mood this morning. #landscapephotography #lakedistrict #nikon
Pine trees edge the flat waters of a lake. In the distance, mists swirl and reveal layers of mountains broding over the scene.
January 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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The man in the rock showed us to our destination namely Pierce’s Castle, Northern Ireland.
#landscapes #landscapephotograpy #photography #nature #Ireland #fotographie #Irishlandscapes #beautifulIreland #Pierce’sCastle
January 22, 2025 at 5:34 PM