IN PICTURES: Spectacular Offaly images captured by talented photographers

Members of Tullamore Camera Club have been using their eagles eyes once again and have delivered some more stunning shots.

Mary O'Grady turned her lens west to view the sun setting at Cavemount Bog, Rhode while Sean McKenna used some creativity with the striking image his camera captured of St Catherine's Church, Hophill in Tullamore.

Drone photography exponent David Gethings sent his camera aloft again to mark a very special occasion, an event remembering Irish motor racing legend, the late Eddie Jordan.

But for sheer originality in a local setting, perhaps Rhosyn Celyn's image tops the lot. Some people will be familiar with the big cormorant birds we see on the Grand Canal and the lakes.

The cormorant enjoys a fish diet and Rhosyn's photograph is proof positive of that – she caught the bird's beak at full stretch as it swallowed its dinner in one massive mouthful on the shore of Finnamore Lake.

Those are the first four images here.

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Then there are three more treats – a pale tussock caterpillar photographed by Celine Nic Oireachtaigh and Joan McKenna's feathered friend.

To round off that package, there is Phil Brady's cute pet portrait of a dog called Suzie.

Further pictures from the recent Tullamore Camera Club wildlife collection follow.

Number 8 is a bluetit photographed by Celine Nic Oireachtaigh and number 9 is a damselfly by Cliff Webb.

Joan McKenna was also on insect spotting duty with her speckled wood butterfly in picture number 10 while Kieran McEvoy captured a rudder darter dragonfly for number 11.

A red admiral butterfly was photographed by Marie Kearns, number 12, and Rhosyn Celyn was birdwatching again and managed to maintain the swallow theme for picture number 13. The final picture, number 14, is where Sean McKenna got a red admiral close-up.

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