It's happening again, earlier this year we had the Luas strike that impacted heavily on visitors to Dublin seeing the two separate lines of the light rail shutting down at weekends and key dates such as St. Patrick's Day and Easter.
This time it's the Dublin Bus drivers who are striking, already with two days of stoppages under their belts the drivers are also not working on Thursday 15th and Friday 16th September 2016. Friday 16th is also Culture Night which will see tens of thousands of people out in towns and cities around Ireland but in Dublin they won't be able to use the bus to get home.
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 will avoid photographing because the subject matter is very cliché.
And it is true, along with waterfalls what do you think of when you think of landscape photography? Sunrises and sunsets most likely.
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 Kildare after leading a photography tour I took the opportunity to make some landscape images of the post-sunset sky that was evolving in front of my eyes.
On a recent landscape photography workshop in Ireland's west we encountered a beautifully bright and colourful sunset at the coast of County Mayo.
Movement can add to a landscape and travel image, if it is in context and adds to the final image.
During a recent photography workshop we stopped to photograph a woodland scene with thin, straight, tall beech trees growing from a moss-covered wet hummocky floor providing the interest, a path meandering that leads the eye.
Sunrise on this morning's photography workshop on Dublin's beautiful bay.
The weather forecast was not favourable but was preferable to the following morning's forecast and other recent mornings where rain and heavily overcast conditions create conditions not of interest to the landscape photographer.
Sometimes it is easy to think of landscape photography in terms of the right light, the golden raking sunshine illuminating the countryside in front of the lens.
And it is true that landscapes with lighting like this are without doubt impressive and beautiful.
A return to County Cork took me to it's beautifully varied coastline that I have previously mentioned here.
Unlike on that previous occasion the weather was not cloudy and moody but bright and colourful highlighting the bright greens found in the littoral landscape.
There are many factors that contribute to making a good image. Not least among them is lighting, in fact without light we have no image and without good light we have a bad image.