{"id":36639,"date":"2025-09-01T14:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T14:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/36639\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T14:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T14:30:12","slug":"kildare-photographer-shows-off-her-stunning-award-winning-capture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/36639\/","title":{"rendered":"Kildare photographer shows off her stunning award-winning capture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kildarenow.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kildare<\/a> photographers, Raluca Lica from Narraghmore and John Walsh from Sallins, won and were nominated in the 2025 Reach for the Stars competition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Raluca Lica\u2019s from Narraghmore stunning photo was selected as the winner of the Back on Earth \u2013 Landscape category in this year\u2019s Reach for the Stars competition organised by the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sallins man John Walsh\u2019s stunning photo (below) was shortlisted in the Out of this World \u2013 Deep Sky category in this year\u2019s competition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/John_Walsh_and_Family_with_his_image_Crescent_Nebula-1756723281352.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"609\" height=\"418\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reach for the Stars is Ireland\u2019s biggest astrophotography competition, and this year saw more than 170 entries from photographers across Ireland. The winning entries and a selection of the shortlisted images are currently on public display outside DIAS HQ on Burlington Road, Dublin 2.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kildarenow.com\/news\/national-news\/1883004\/pictures-young-and-old-enjoying-electric-picnic-can-you-spot-yourself-or-a-friend.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">READ NEXT: PICTURES: Young and old enjoying Electric Picnic &#8211; can you spot yourself or a friend?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two\u00a0Kildare photographers, Raluca Lica from Narraghmore and John Walsh from Sallins, won and were nominated in the 2025&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[28470,18,19,17,3625,28471,16211,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-36639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-calverstown","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-kildare","13":"tag-kilmead","14":"tag-sallins","15":"tag-science"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}