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Field notes, location guides, and photography stories from across Ireland.
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The coast, my favourite subject matter as a photographer. And there is plenty of choice with several thousands of kilometres of coastline to photograph. Here, wave after wave washes up upon the rocks, too many times to...
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An afternoon in the west of Ireland with sun rays and waves from a Galway lake.
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The Antrim Coast of Northern Ireland, home to the well-known Giant's Causeway is one of my favourite places to photograph, it is also one of the best places in which to lead a photography workshop.
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Earlier in the summer I photographed these cygnets as they wandered around St. Stephen's Green in Dublin's city centre, check out the picture here - Cygnets.
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Landscape photography is more than just photographing sunsets and sunrises, the crepuscular edges of the day when light is low and golden.
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Wicklow sheep were common throughout Ireland before the Famine and produced wool very suitable for flannel (as well as mutton for stews).
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On a recent landscape photography workshop in Ireland's west we encountered a beautifully bright and colourful sunset at the coast of County Mayo.
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A recent trip took me to Collooney, a village in Co. Sligo on Ireland's west coast. Now, Collooney is a place that many people bypass while travelling along the N17 from Galway to Sligo and Donegal.
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Movement can add to a landscape and travel image, if it is in context and adds to the final image.
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This angular building sits in the middle of the city's docklands that were reclaimed from the sea in the 19th century then quickly filled with the myriad sounds of shipbuilding works including the famous Harland and...
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Sunrise on this morning's photography workshop on Dublin's beautiful bay.
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It can hardly be called a large country, Ireland. It's possible to drive from the Irish Sea to the Atlantic in around three hours but the backroads of Ireland are some of the most scenic it is possible to encounter.
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Sometimes it is easy to think of landscape photography in terms of the right light, the golden raking sunshine illuminating the countryside in front of the lens.
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A return to County Cork took me to it's beautifully varied coastline that I have previously mentioned here.
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There are many factors that contribute to making a good image. Not least among them is lighting, in fact without light we have no image and without good light we have a bad image.
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