Photo Journal

  • 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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  • Revisiting the landscape

    Revisiting the landscape

    Never delete images!   The above image was taken in 2008, I’m only got to post process it yesterday!  Back then I would not have used the same techniques and would not have been as happy with the results.  It’s not my favourite image from then, but others seems to like it a lot! I’ve…

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  • Finding my inspiration

    Finding my inspiration

    Since achieving my AIPF distinction last September, my model photography went into hibernation.  Partly because the effort to come up with my panel had exhausted my brain, partly because my main location in the shed/studio was too cold for comfortable winter work.  so I was delighted this past weekend to be back shooting with Madame…

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  • Letter Box Landscapes

    Letter Box Landscapes

    I’m not usually in the habit of making very wide format images, but recently I’ve been asked to fill walls requiring this format so thought I’d look at some of my landscapes and see how the work. I think i have plenty more images that will work well in this format, so might have to…

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  • More FIAP Salon results!

    More FIAP Salon results!

    My second salon results this year just in, and I have received 2 awards and 19 acceptances in the DPW WMC Circuit 2016, Serbia.  My Monochrome works seem to be performing far better for me than all my other images.  Ironically I think they are the simpler images to create in many respects.  Food for…

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