Photo Journal

  • Another Salon Gold Medal

    Another Salon Gold Medal

    NSAPK CIRCUIT 2016 2 Country Serbia – Montenegro 4 Salons Novi Sad – Aleksinac – Podgorica – Kotor Dark Beauty Bink made DPA Gold Medal this week in Monochrome section of Podgorica salon.  In addition, I received a total of 33 acceptances out of a possible 48 for the entire circuit.  I haven’t been entering…

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  • Easter Monday 2016

    Easter Monday 2016

    This morning my wife Liz was pouring over maps trying to figure out how to best get to Ashbourne and the Rath monument for todays commemoration.  I’ve never understood this kind of stress.  I practice positive parking, so unless you do too, you will perhaps not realise that any thoughts about “How” to find the…

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  • Donabate 2016

    Donabate 2016

    Today all over Ireland people marked the centenary of the 1916 rebellion in public and personal ways. Some of the images I recorded today are in this gallery. Many locals dressed in uniform or costume remembering relatives locally involved in 1916.  The image below was one of my favuorite portraits of the day. It saddens…

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  • Mayo Weekend – Part II

    Mayo Weekend – Part II

    Up at 6am. Look out the window, cloud, and more cloud.  Brain might be slow, but it doesn’t take long to decide to go back to bed!  When I finally get up there is still blanket cloud cover but a glimmer of light on the horizon and the forecast for sunny spells motivates me to…

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  • Mayo Weekend – Part I

    Mayo Weekend – Part I

    This weekend I headed west for some landscape photography on the south shore of Lough Mask near Clonbur, straddling the Mayo / Galway boarder. I arrived late Saturday afternoon in time for a sunset shoot. I started with some shots of my favourite submerged tree on the lake which I had not captured in this…

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