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!

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.

Autumn is really the time of year to be out there with camera in hand, or on tripod as the case may be.

Colour and character conquer the countryside as leaves turn and fall to the ground.

A Western Panorama from Panoramic Ireland

The shadows of two walkers can be seen traversing a ridge between two mountains in the west of Ireland in this image from my Panoramic Ireland series. The shadows belong to me and a visiting photographer, on a photography tour of Northern Ireland initially we then headed on to Sligo, Galway and Mayo in the west of Ireland extending the tour by four days.

Cliffs of Moher at Sunset

I previously wrote about my visit to Slieve League in County Donegal, the highest marine cliffs in Ireland, along with the Cliffs of Moher in County Clare are part of the Wild Atlantic Way that runs for 2,500km along Ireland's western seaboard.