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Cian, Jon & minder, Liliana SUN18DEC22
t’s just about our most popular annual gallery, Greystones Rocks being the perfect opportunity
to capture a moment of the magic that surrounds us every day.
And having impressed the bejiggers out of us in 2021 with his 2018 entry Your Way Is Lit, My Son, Jon Pierce returned to Kindlestown Wood for this year’s winning shot.

Bucket Of Sunshine by Rob Lawless.
As chance would have it, his son is there too, four years older, and clearly curious about the big, beautiful world beyond his walks. Sweet!
It was a hard-fought contest, given that there were at least 20 shots that deserved to be crowned our once and future Kodak kings and queens.

Supermoon Over Greystones Vlad Bodarev
So, when it came to our two expert judges, whittling it down to just three was even a near-impossible task.
“I just loved the light in these shots,” says Phil McDarby, a master of nature photography who, like the late, great patron of Greystones Rocks, Brian Keeley, will wait as long as it takes for the perfect shot. “I must have changed my Top 3 at least eight or nine times, but, in the end, I went with The Light by Josephine Lloyd, Bucket by Rob Lawless and Supermoon Over Greystones by Vlad Bodarev.”

Reflections by Ann McCabe
For the town’s #1 roving snapper John McGowan, the three personal favourites were Reflections by Ann McCabe, Bear With Me by Richard Moore and this year’s champ, No Mountain Too High.

The winning pic…
Somewhat ridiculously, we only got around to presenting Jon with his framed award on this wet Sunday in mid-December, after the first two prints of his winning photo just weren’t up to scratch for framing. And, hey, we’ve been busy.

Keeley in action…