{"id":5677,"date":"2012-08-11T22:51:42","date_gmt":"2012-08-11T12:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=5677"},"modified":"2012-08-11T23:31:42","modified_gmt":"2012-08-11T13:31:42","slug":"the-olympus-e-m5-camera-in-western-rural-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=5677","title":{"rendered":"The Olympus E-M5 camera in western rural Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My holiday in June took me to Ireland and although the weather was too poor for us to consider squeezing in a drive down to the Ring of Kerry, we did make it up to the Connemara region which was a nice treat, even in the stormy conditions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/Europe\/Ireland2012\/GA233860-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/Europe\/Ireland2012\/GA233860-1.jpg\" alt=\"Connemara sunlight\" width=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I must admit the dynamic range of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wiki\/doku.php?id=photo:olympusomdem5\" target=\"_blank\">Olympus E-M5 Micro Four Thirds camera<\/a> has really surprised me &#8211; being much better than any digital camera I have ever used, including the Canon 1D Mark III dSLR.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/Europe\/Ireland2012\/GA233833-1-2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/Europe\/Ireland2012\/GA233833-1-2.jpg\" alt=\"Connemara\" width=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We went for a drive around the Burren region south-east of Galway, but again it was a very wet day and coincided with a bicycle race which did not make it as pleasant as I would have liked &#8211; certainly not a relaxing drive through the Irish countryside when one has to keep a close eye out for cyclists on the narrow wet winding roads.<\/p>\n<p>12th century Corcomroe Abbey said to have been built c1182 for Donal Mor O&#8217;Brien, King of Munster. It ceased formerly functioning as an abbey in 1564 (contrast has been increased):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/Europe\/Ireland2012\/GA233895-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/Europe\/Ireland2012\/GA233895-1.jpg\" alt=\"abbey\" width=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Having decided to abort our weekend drive around the Burren, we headed down to Ennis:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/Europe\/Ireland2012\/GA233918-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/Europe\/Ireland2012\/GA233918-1.jpg\" alt=\"Ennis\" width=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More photos on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/44919156@N00\/sets\/72157630097069008\/\" target=\"_blank\">my Flickr set<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My holiday in June took me to Ireland and although the weather was too poor for us to consider squeezing in a drive down to the Ring of Kerry, we did make it up to the Connemara region which was a nice treat, even in the stormy conditions. I must admit the dynamic range of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,181],"tags":[240,18,258,241,14,156],"class_list":["post-5677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-travel-photography","tag-e-m5","tag-four-thirds-micro","tag-ireland","tag-micro-four-thirds","tag-olympus","tag-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}