I'm not a big believer in always having the latest gear, honestly even for professional photographers it is not necessary to have the latest iteration of your chosen camera system.
Of course keeping up with technology is important and can give advantages over previous versions, especially in the digital age. But it is possible to create world class imagery with ten-year old digital cameras.
So when my phone stopped working suddenly on a recent photography workshop it was necessary to get a replacement. As it turns out this was the second HTC phone that I have owned to suddenly stop working, with no warning. Not good.
The rugged landscapes in the west of Ireland make for great landscape photography.
Here, small fields of green have been created by generations of farmers clearing stones from the land.
Old cultivation ridges can be seen inside the fields where, in centuries gone by, farmers created what are known as lazy beds.
I went for a walk in the woods in the west of Ireland recently, a great evening with low light shining through the trees.
The only sounds were those of the camera shutter and echoey footsteps as I walked along the stony paths with a background soundtrack of forest birds.
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.
Sometimes I get asked where the background image to my Twitter account is from.
The answer is that I have photographed donkeys all over Ireland, from the Burren in County Clare to lovely Inistioge in County Kilkenny but this donkey was one that I met on a back road in South Armagh.
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