Out for a walk in the spring sunshine a few days ago I noticed that the doors of the local RC Church, here in Portstewart were open, and no services scheduled, so I ventured inside with the Fujifilm X-T50 camera.
Portstewart RC Church
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Royal Hillsborough Churches
A visit to the Co.Down town of Royal Hillsborough (The home of Hillsborough Castle – a Royal Residence) on Tuesday 30th September, gave me the opportunity to add another image to my collection of photographs of the town, made on a few earlier occasions.
The people I was visiting lived directly across the road from Hillsborough Presbyterian Church, and while on earlier visits I have been able to photograph the historic and beautiful Anglican Church building, this was my first chance to get up to the Presbyterian building.
Continue reading Royal Hillsborough ChurchesThe Fusion of Old and New: St Colmcille’s RC Church
Holywood, Co.Down is a (rather posh!) suburb in North Down, between Belfast and Bangor, and part of Northern Ireland’s gold coast, – the so called ’stockbroker belt.’ I happened to be driving through it on Monday 1st September 2025, en-route to Newtownards. As I drove past St Colmcille’s Catholic Church, I reminded myself that I’d promised to take a closer look at this remarkable building, set high on a hill on the approach to the town, a fusion of an old bell-tower and a modern circular building. So, on my return journey, I stopped for twenty minutes or so, armed with the Fujifilm X-T50.
Newcastle Co.Down
Our Lady of the Assumption RC Church – a striking modern building situated on Downs Road, Newcastle, Co.Down.
Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T4 F=35mm, f/9 @ 1/125th sec on ISO400
