IN PICTURES: Some absolutely fantastic images captured by Offaly photographers

World Photography Day was held on August 19 and to mark the occasion, Tullamore Camera Club members were asked to submit their favourite shot. The photographers came up with a stunning variety of eye catching images, including three striking ones taken in Offaly. Mary O'Grady ventured out to photograph the moon rising over Esker Bog, Rhode while Bridie Roe stepped into Daingean village centre to snap the steeple from an unusual angle. Joan McKenna went to Cloghan lake where she found a beautiful marmalade butterfly.  Those are the first three images here.

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Number 4 is by Anna Maria Falcinelli, 5 is Cliff Webb's starling, 6 is a bee orchid by Marie Kearns, and 7 is Martina Lowe's Small tortoiseshell butterfly.

Number 8 is an interesting image from Galway from Mary Theresa Clancy while Nuala Lynch was in Norway for picture number 9, as was Phil Brady for number 10.

Photograph number 11 was taken by Rita Gannon on Inisheer, Aran Islands, while number 12 is a puffin pictured by Rosie Cummins on Wexford's Saltee Islands.

Sean McKenna got lucky for number 13 when he pointed his lens skywards towards the Italian display team at the Bray Air Show while the last photograph, number 14, is by Vincent Donoghue of a border collie in the evening sun.