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.

Parfois Panoramic Ireland vais à la France et l'un de mes endroits préférés est le Mont Saint Michel. J'aime bien la France et je parle un peu de Francais. Je prends le ferry d'Irlande en France habituellement de Rosslare a Cherbourg. Puis je visite le grand ouest de France.

Si vous avez regardé à travers le site que vous pouvez voir que j'ai organiser privée photographie éprouve à Dublin, Belfast et dans toute l'Irlande.

Si vous souhaitez prendre un voyage de photographie et d'acquérir de nouvelles compétences, voir de nouveaux endroits au meilleur moment de la journée puis, s'il vous plaît envoyez-moi un email.

Je suis Irlandais, je suis photographe et je voudrais vous montrer le meilleur de l'Irlande et la façon d'améliorer votre photographie.

Panoramic Ireland - pour voir l'Irlande.

Like most things in Ireland, our waterfalls are not the tallest, most powerful or biggest in Europe or the world but they are certainly very characterful.

Often hidden on seacliffs or miles away from the nearest road, waterfalls in Ireland take two forms. There are the famous and not famous.

The famous waterfalls are Torc in County Kerry, Glenarriff in County Antrim, Powerscourt in County Wicklow and Aasleagh Falls on the border of County Mayo and County Galway. Glencar Waterfall in County Leitrim is the one made famous by W.B. Yeats. All the rest are the not-so famous waterfalls.

The elusive pine marten (martes martes) is the rarest of Ireland's mammals and along with our smallest, the pygmy shrew, is the one that most people are least likely to have encountered in Ireland.

Shy creatures, the pine marten is usually active at night, however I have observed them mostly during bright daylight.