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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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"🍂 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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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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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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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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Ah, the tyranny of a blue sky for us landscape photographers, but hey, #BirdPhotography gear to the rescue. Even a blue sky has its perks once it comes to the evening sunshine – just look at that golden glow on the Black-tailed Godwits! #photography #wildlifephotography #birds #ireland #fotographie
A black tailed godwit flying across Dundalk Bay in the golden light of the evening sunshine. In the background are the salt marshes. Photo by Rosie Nixon taken January 2025. A black tailed godwit just has landed on the mud at the waters edge. It is illuminated by the evening sunlight. Photo taken by Rosie Nixon in Dundalk Bay, January 2025. A black tailed godwit flying across the water with its wings almost touching the water. The golden glow from the evening sun illuminates its plumage and its reflection in the water. Taken by Rosie Nixon in Dundalk Bay, January 2025. A black tailed godwit preening its feathers as it stands at the waters edge with the evening sunshine illuminating its body. Taken by Rosie Nixon in Dundalk Bay in January 2025.
January 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Sandflies? Please. The golden light at Pāuatahanui Inlet was worth every itchy bite. This pied stilt | poaka shot at sunset is proof!

#birds #birdphotography #bird #newzealand #wildlife #aotearoa
A black and white wading bird with red legs walking across blue water with golden bokeh orbs in the foreground.
January 18, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Sharing a different image I took of sunrise 2 weeks ago. The striking granite tors crowning Slieve Binnian (747m) in the Mourne mountains stood out boldly against the brightening sky, drawing me to capture the scene.

#photography #northernireland #landscapephotography #fotographie
An orange and yellow sky contrasting with the snowy mountains and the fields covered in frost.
January 16, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Today was a lovely day to be out with the camera doing some #birdphotography. There was hardly a breeze in Dundalk Bay & in the late afternoon sunshine we had two playful Redshanks to amuse us.

#photography #wildlifephotography #birds #ireland #seabank #castlebellingham #colouth #eire #fotographie
Two playful redshank wading birds splashing up bits of mud as they interact with each other in the late evening sunshine. Photo by Rosie Nixon, taken in Dundalk Bay, Ireland.
January 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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From my archives: using light painting techniques and a slow shutter speed to create this still life floral image of an Anemone coronaria ‘Bordeaux’ flower.

#fotographie #photography #flowerphotography #flower #leavesnbloom
An anemone flower with burgundy petals with brighter lighter stamens in the center. Set against a black velvet background and photographed using a slow shutter speed while painting with light over the flower.
January 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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This mornings sunrise with the striking collection of granite tors crowning the summit of Slieve Binnian (747m) in the Mourne Mountains in the far distance.

#landscapephotography #fotographie #ireland
#mournemountains #photography #landscape #northernireland #winter #Eire
In the foreground are the frosty hills of Co Down and in the background are the Mourne Mountains at sunrise. You can see the craggy tors on the summit of Slieve Binnian and part of the mourne wall stretching across the mountains. Photo by Rosie Nixon.
January 4, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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The fog enclosed us as we were trying to photograph the last of the heather blooms of the season. Taken along the Hen Mountain trail in the western Mournes while putting our hope & trust in midge repellent as those wee beasties are so aggressive.
#ireland #mournemountains #photography #landscape
A rock on the boggy ground with some pink heather growing out of a crack. In the background is Hen mountain just after sunrise almost all shrouded in fog.
December 24, 2024 at 12:35 PM
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Another one of my spring dreamy wildflower shots ~ wild garlic. I was almost intoxicated by the strong smell of garlic as I lay on the ground to get this shot as the woodland floor was a mass of white flowers as far as the eye could see.

#wildflowers #flowerphotography #leavesnbloom #ireland
A single white garlic stem arising from a mass of flowers on the woodland floor with a cluster of white star shaped flowers on the top of the stem.
December 18, 2024 at 11:11 AM
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Occasionally we spot an otter on the Castletown River in Dundalk.

#wildlife #dundalk #colouth #ireland #photography
An otter heading towards the water after walking along the river estuary mud. Its mouth is open showing its lower teeth.
December 18, 2024 at 10:13 AM
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From the archives: Pretty little white wood anemones that carpet the woodland floor during March and April each year.

#wildflowers #nativeflowers #Ireland #Eire #photography #flowerphotography #flowerreport #leavesnbloom
Little white flowers with yellow stamens against a green foreground and background. Taken by Rosie Nixon in Ireland.
December 14, 2024 at 11:02 AM
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One from the archives: Sunrise at Annagassan in Co Louth overlooking Dundalk Bay; along with the quaintness of a wee Irish cottage!

#landscape #landscapephotography #ireland #sunrise #photography #colouth
December 12, 2024 at 11:48 AM
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One from the early summer archives: A rare sight of a male cuckoo in flight. Photo taken outside Drogheda, along the River Boyne in Co Louth.

#cuckoo #birds #irishwildlife #ireland #photography #wildlife #nature
A cuckoo bird in flight against a blue grey sky, in Ireland. Photo by Rosie Nixon www.rosienixon.com
December 8, 2024 at 12:49 PM
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Finding beauty in the allium seed heads and appreciating the intricate details that often go unnoticed.
~ This was one of my limited edition fine art images in my 'Say it with flowers' exhibition at Close Gallery, Edinburgh.

#beautyindecay #fineart #nature #photography #multipleexposure #seedheads
a multiple exposure that fills the frame with brown decaying allium seed heads with the winter sun illuminating one in particular and turning it more of a golden colour.
December 5, 2024 at 1:50 PM
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We were back up at Flagstaff Viewpoint outside Newry this morning to enjoy the best of today's light. There was just a little fog and mist lingering around Slieve Foye in the distance.

#landscape #landscapephotography #ireland #nature
#sunrise #winter #carlingfordlough #photography #colouth
A lough with mountains on each side and conifers in the foreground. The yellow in the gap between the mountains is the sun before it rises and it has turned the clouds above pinks and magenta colours. The lights of the harbour shine in the pre dawn light while the light illuminates the remains of the summer's heather blooms and rock in the foreground.
December 4, 2024 at 2:30 PM