Eight arms and four oars propel a rowing boat at speed upstream along the River Liffey as it flows through the centre of Dublin, Ireland. 

Panoramic Ireland's photography experiences have proved to be very popular this summer and I am just back from a 10-day tour of Ireland's coastline with Linda K. from the USA.

Antrim Photography Experience

I wrote about a recent photography workshop on the Antrim Coast with two Sicilians, see here - we went along the coast, photographing waterfalls, green fields, rocky coastline and of course the Dark Hedges. This is real landscape photography territory.

Panoramic Ireland meets the President of Ireland

I recently had the opportunity to attend the Festival Interceltique du Lorient, the largest gathering of celtic nations in the world. Held every year in southern Brittany, the festival is attended by almost one million visitors over its ten day run in August in the French town of Lorient.

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.

The International Wall and Peace Walls of Belfast

Belfast is a city that gets a lot of press, mostly negative, but in recent years with the four decades-long conflict known as The Troubles having finished the city is experiencing a lot of positive publicity with a rejuvenation of the Cathedral Quarter and the docklands where Titanic was built.

The Antrim Coast of Northern Ireland is one of my favourite parts of Ireland to take workshops and for photography. Principally because this is where I was born and it is a place I remember from childhood and revisit often.

On this occasion I visited the Antrim Coast with Margherita and Clara from Sicily, the land of beautiful scenery including Mount Etna with its long coastline, Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean.

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.

The weather was fine, stormy at times and very windy in places but with plenty of cloud action to keep the skies interesting.

Dublin's Windmill Lane needs no introduction to anyone with more than a passing interest in Irish culture and music.

There is certainly no doubt that Panoramic Ireland loves photographing Ireland and there is also no doubt that Galway is one of the favourite places for Panoramic Ireland to photograph.