I had a meeting in Downpatrick today, a bustling town in the east of Northern Ireland's scenic County Down.

A productive meeting, I then went around the coast of the very beautiful county that is home to miles of beautiful coastline and Northern Ireland's highest, and most famous, mountains - The Mournes.

Titanic Belfast

A recent photographic assignment took me to Belfast, Northern Ireland's capital city and the second largest on the island of Ireland; growing up I spent a lot of time in the former industrial powerhouse of Ireland.

Belfast is a city that has undergone a lot of renovation over recent years and the most shining example of that renewal can be seen in the bright and shimmering anodised aluminium exterior of Titanic Belfast.

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.

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.

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.

Autumn is here, the leaves are changing colour, the weather is changing from warm and summery to blustery and showery, the evenings are closing in and it's looking great!

Return to Saint John's Point - Northern Ireland's Unusual Lighthouse

The distinctive yellow and black painted lighthouse is situated on the eastern end of Dundrum Bay in County Down, Northern Ireland and differentiated from most lighthouses that are decorated in the usual black and white or just white.

Not to be confused with Saint John's Point lighthouse in County Donegal; the unusually-coloured County Down lighthouse is one of the finest in Ulster with rocky foreshore, the Mourne Mountains in the distance and its bright colour adding to the appeal of the long drive into the peninsula on which it sits.

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.

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.