Saint Patrick's Day in Ireland

Time flies by, another year has passed and it is now Saint Patrick's Day again, 2015 this time!

Panoramic Ireland will be on the streets of Ireland this year to photograph as always the interesting moments. Here are some musicians playing to an enthusiastic crowd just off Grafton Street in Dublin in 2014.

Coastal Landscape Photography Workshop February

The coast of Ireland is well known and justly so with long, golden sandy beaches, rugged, indented and rocky coastline with castles, cottages and mountains perched precariously looking out over the sea.

From the sheer cliffs of Slieve League in County Donegal to the world famous Cliffs of Moher in County Clare and the Giant's Causeway in County Antrim, there can be no doubt that the coast of Ireland is perfect for photography.

A recent photography workshop took me to the mountains in search of horses, on this occasion the Comeragh Mountains in the southeast of Ireland.

I have started my review of 2014 in images over on another section of the site.

Last year saw me visit many counties, cover the Wild Atlantic Way and write articles on the Antrim Coast's Game of Thrones connection and street art in Dublin as well as Belfast's peace walls - now a focal point for community based art.

A quiet video from the west of Ireland.

Using my Garmin Virb in its inbuilt timelapse mode I set it up at the edge of a lake in one of my favourite locations.

Here in the west of Ireland, the large lake and sunset provides plenty of inspiration to the photographer and artist and it is a location that I have photographed often. Some of the last sunsets of 2014 I watched and photographed from this location.

Christmas Day, a time of big dinners and unwrapping presents.

Here in Ireland there is a popular tradition of taking to the water, the icy-cold waters of the Irish Sea, Atlantic Ocean or many inland lakes and rivers.

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

During a recent trip through the countryside of my native Northern Ireland I stopped and walked along this lane.

Looking back over the crest of the hill there were panoramic views in all directions, most notably towards the distant mountains.

December is finally here and in less than a week the day length will begin to lengthen again, the winter of course provides some of the best days for landscape photography if you know where to go. But here are a selection of some of my favourite landscapes in Ireland, as chosen by Tourisme Irlandais and shared on their Facebook page; they are the official Tourism Ireland for France.

An afternoon in the west of Ireland with sun rays and waves from a Galway lake.

I waited as the camera exposed a few long exposures and afterwards set a faster shutter speed to capture the sunlight bursting through the clouds. Alongside this I captured a timelapse of various lake scenes from the west of Ireland.

This video is a timelapse taken on one stormy November afternoon in 2014.