Bogland: Macro and Intimate Landscape Photography In mid April 2025 I decided to return to the raised bogs of County Offaly. Conditions were unusual and not ideal for photography – not a single cloud seen in 2 days – is that a record for Ireland! I visited two small bogs and had them exclusively to…
DetailsJust before turning off at Farranfore for the a landscape photography trip with friends to the Dingle Peninsula in Co Kerry I noticed the imposing McGillycuddy Reeks mountain range and promised myself I’d return soon to explore that area further. Two weeks later I left very early on a Thursday morning and was again passing…
DetailsI’ve eventually managed to upload a selection of images from our Californian road trip in October of this year. A handful of those images may be portfolio worthy but I find there is value in choosing a broader selection initially. This may lead to seeing something in one image that a reprocess may bring out…
DetailsIt’s been a while since I posted. I enjoy writing short blogs but just haven’t put time aside to do so. My last blog was on street photography in March of this year. It’s late December now. It’s unusual that my first blog since is entitled “A Blog to Remind Myself to Write Blogs” but…
DetailsA Brief Pivot to Street Photography From time to time, we may find ourselves meandering down a pathway and wondering how and why we took that direction. Usually it’s a brief foray into the unknown and we retreat quickly and resume our intended journey. Street photography has been such a pathway for me over the…
DetailsEight Photographers Travel to Glencoe (Greystones Camera Club) When a return trip to Glencoe with friends at Greystones Camera Club was arranged for early February 2024, I knew the craic would be mighty and hoped for snow clad munroes and valleys. Three weeks before we took the short flight to Glasgow, I checked the weather…
DetailsLocal Photography and Low Expectations: South Beach Greystones This weekend the Greystones Camera Club meetup was in an all too familiar location somewhere between the cove and the north end of the south beach in Greystones, not far from our clubhouse. We’ve shot the cove, the rocky shore that stretches to the south beach and…
DetailsCreating a photographic calendar This is the sixth consecutive year I’ve produced an end of year calendar to celebrate the photographic year past and by doing so herald in a new photographic year. The selection process is good fun. My wife, Lisa and I go through a shortlist of images iteratively until the final print…
DetailsIntroduction It’s only human to slice off a year in a life and consign it to a retrospective of how well the time was spent and what lessons can be carried into the next year as if that makes the slightest bit of difference. As John Lennon wrote ” Life is what happens when you’re…
DetailsA Return to the North Antrim Coast After returning from the north Antrim coast in February 2023, I shared tales of the epic seascapes I had visited to my good friends in Greystones Camera Club. “Why not organise a club trip there?” was the feedback. Why not indeed! We booked the well located Marine Hotel…
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