You never know what to expect as an outdoor photographer here in Ireland.

After a three day photography tour in the west of Ireland I was finishing up and heading home

The west of Ireland - it has great people, great food, great entertainment and great scenery and that all makes for the perfect location for photography.

Landscape photography is more than just photographing sunsets and sunrises, the crepuscular edges of the day when light is low and golden.

Often times this what a landscape photographer

This week has seen some rainy weather, autumn is on its way yet not all has been boring and grey in the world of landscape photography here in Ireland.

As I travelled through County

On a recent landscape photography workshop in Ireland's west we encountered a beautifully bright and colourful sunset at the coast of County Mayo.

Another evening in Dublin and another amazing sunset as crepuscular rays from the low sun spread out from behind dramatic clouds suspended over the River Liffey as it flows through the

Another beautiful evening here in the west of Ireland and what an evening it was.

Any of you who joined me for a chat earlier will have seen and heard how calm the conditions were, just a

And the sun sets on another day, another Saint Patrick's Day in this case.

To anyone I was chatting to earlier, here is the finished sunset image. 

The west of Ireland is as blessed as many parts of the world with beautiful sunsets, the sun dropping towards the horizon, its light skimming across a few thousand miles of ocean

Sunset in the northern hemisphere is occurring earlier and now that we are almost in November it will be even earlier, this weekend sees the time change with the hour going back.

This

I'm currently planning an early start tomorrow morning, working on recent landscape images for a client when I look out of the window to see the post-sunset sky ablaze with colour.

Summer in Ireland. It wasn't really tangible in 2015.

Most places in Ireland recorded a wetter, duller and colder summer (June, July and August) than usual.

This evening's image

After a busy week I can now appreciate the crepuscles and with a rainy few days the sun finally made a brief appearance below the cloud base just before sunset in the west of Ireland.

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The sun has set on 2014 and we are now in 2015, Happy New Year!

Cliffs of Moher at Sunset

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Slieve League Sunset - Mainland Ireland's Highest Marine Cliffs

Panoramic Ireland's photography experiences have proved to be very popular this summer and I am just back from a 10-day tour

Another tour of Connemara

After a few weeks of travelling (more to come on that) I am back in Ireland and led a photo tour in Connemara with MC from New Zealand last week.

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