Besides satellite navigation and non-subscription online tools, any photographer who travels and hikes around Ireland will need good maps to…
Horn Head
Horn Head (157 metres, 515 feet) is a wild and rugged peninsula in north-west Donegal. If you’re into landscape photography…
“No Line Markins”
Driving around you never know what you’re going to see. Is this a phonetically inspired sign on a country road…
Sadie (1911-2003)
1) Canon EOS 620, Sigma 28-70mm f2.8, Ilford XP2 2) Canon EOS 50, Sigma 28-70mm f2.8, Ilford XP2 3) Canon…
Poulnabrone Dolmen
Poulnabrone is a dolmen (stone table) and portal tomb located in the Burren region of County Clare in Ireland. It’s…
A Winter’s Day On Slieve Donard
Difficult to shoot, scan and process, this shot of an iced-over staff stuck in the cairn on Slieve Donard is…
Dunlewey Church of Ireland, Donegal
“Jane Smith Russell had the church built as a memorial to her husband, James Russell, landlord of the Dunlewey Estate,…
Two Boys, 1976
It would seem these two lads are back out to play after lunch. Minolta SR-T 101, MC Rokkor – PF…
Aiguille du Midi and Mont Blanc
All images: Canon EOS 50, EF 70-210mm f3.5-4.5 USM lens, Fujifilm Fujicolour Reala. To cope with the bright sunlit snow,…
The Negative Advantage
In some ways I miss shooting sharp, high quality colour negative film. For a time I felt it had advantages…
Can Composition Be Taught?
I recently watched a TV programme that featured an artist who was using his considerable talents and skills to carve…
Winter Apples
“MODERN ART IS A ASS!” If Dickens’ Mr Bumble had the good sense to pooh-pooh one of the Law’s many…
A Camera To Paint With
One festive evening while wearily channel-hopping I came on an eye-catching scene. At first glance it seemed that an ageing…
Air Show
Back in the mid-90s I went to a local air show – so local I walked to it. Frugal days…
Ship Engine Camshaft, Belfast Shipyard, 1978
I didn’t know too much about camshafts until the heavyset bloke I sold my car to arrived at the door…
Ramelton, County Donegal
A still autumn evening in Ramelton, County Donegal, Ireland. A burst of fill-flash brought out the colour in the overhanging…
On Top of Errigal and Muckish
On a calm morning in County Donegal the late October sun casts a long shadow from Errigal Mountain (2463 ft,…
Painted Tractor
It was a cold late afternoon to be standing in the rain fiddling about with my Canon EOS 50 and…
Cove Cave, The Mourne Mountians
Cove Cave is situated east of Slievelamagan, south of Cove Mountain and Cove Lough, and west of the Annalong River…
Wind Blow
With the camera on a tripod, a long exposure just before dawn allowed the wind to paint colours and textures…
