My favs of 2019

View from the top of Geokaun Mountain, looking out to Bengish Island (Cromwell Point Lighthouse below). Co.Kerry, Ireland. I cooked dinner and camped (car camped, post on that soon!) here. Unfortunately the clouds closed in once it got dark and heavy rain followed!

O'Brien's Tower, Cliff of Moher, Co.Clare. I was doing a housesit about 40mins away so was great to be able to get over for some post sunset shots on a lovely calm and cloudless evening.

Another car campint trip, this time to Waterford. Some lovely skies just after sunset.

I was going to spend the night here, but the tide was getting close so I retreated to the car!

I love the Skellig Islands!

A couple of great shoots last year with Leah for Cotton Threadz clothing. This was in Ebony Rose Interiors, lost of great wallpapers and couches for shots.

Bull Island is my favourite spot in Dublin, and I think this was finally the day that our Summer started!

O'Brien's Tower again, with what star constellations I couldn't tell you!

Ballydowane again. Me thinking I'm out of shot doing some light painting.

Cliff's of Insanity

Ladies bike at the gents bathing shelter.

Winter sunsets at Bull Island can be the best there are, this was a couple weeks before the Winter Solstice.

The unpoluted night skies of The Burren.

So with the D700 being a bit temperamental at the moment its back to the D300 for a bit, that also means I can dust of the 10.5mm (that has been neglected for far too long, its a great little lens). Back working in city centre for next while means I can get some street stuff done with it.

Get used to being dragged around shops little fella!

  Matching shoes and earphones. Both have scarves and their jackets tied. I need to know if lefty has earrings and righty has necklace under her scarf.

  Is guy in background talking to guy in foreground. Why does it look like piss in that Sprite bottle? I didn’t know Sprite was even still a thing.

  99% this is a tourist! The runners, the turned up jeans, the "fanny pack", the umbrella. Does he know I’m taking the photo?

  Friday night, ties off. Are his runners new? Are his work shoes in the Elvery’s (sports) bag? Is dinner in the M&S bag? .

  Bane got a new job.

The Old Firm Casuals - Voodoo, Dublin [19.08.16]

They're played a few times but this was my first chance to get to see The Old Firm Causals, a great mix of Oi and street punk - lead by Lars of Rancid. They played a great set with a full Voodoo with the crowd well in to them. Definitely will get to see them next time they're back having missed them the previous times.

The next day they headed off to Belfast to play "Keep The Faith Festival" in memory of Colin McQuillan of Runnin Riot who passed away in August 2014 while on tour with The Casuals.

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My favourites of 2015

A lone exposure up Sally Gap. I love Sally Gap, especially when you get a clear sky. It gets so dark up here you can great shots of the stars and with the light pollution you can get great silhouettes too. Luckily a meteorite just about made it into the shot.

This is a fav just as much for the memory taking it as the photo itself. It was a long exposure so actually even darker than this looks. I was shin deep in the water so as to avoid some rocks & grass closer to me. All around me all I could here was deers fighting & mating. Very eerie, very cool!


I love Carnsore Point down at the bottom tip of Wexford. I've been down a few times to photograph the wind turbines, but the last few times these lads weren't around. They were very eager to get to me, not sure if angry or friendly, haha, but they were very obliging for a few photos!


I'm really looking forward to doing more on this project with Dublin artist Paul Duffy (https://www.facebook.com/duffysdastardlydoodles). He will be inserting his wonderful creations into my photos. This a little sneak peek.


Another one from Sally Gap, the weather is so harsh up here even the trees (theres actually only four trees within a few kilometres here!) submit to the weather and go with the flow!


Áine at (the 13th) Dublin Tattoo Convention last Halloween. It was the first time I've had all the lighting gear out in five years.

Vartry Reservoir. A prefect sky at sunset to catch the water that comes out of my taps back home!


Sick Of It All. I've been listening to these New Yorkers from 20 years, seen them a load of times, videoed them a couple times, but this was my first time photographing them - with the little Fuji which did a great job with the low light.


Pigeon House / Poolbeg power station. Its no longer in use and the council keeps threatening to demolish the stacks. But these stacks can be seen from so many places around Dublin I hope they stay. I was scouting locations for a shoot.


Plane trails usually wreck a photo, but this one was more solid than they usually look, so it made it through the deletion process!


And Sally Gap again. I love this tree, reminds my of something from a magical movie. Its sits along side a stream (maybe one that makes up the Liffey), with the sun back lighting and coming through the leaves made it perfect for me.

Two days in to 2016, light & clouds haven't been kind and yet to take a photo!

Protest November 2010. Five years on.

On 27th November 2010, well over 100,000 took to the streets of Dublin to protest against the coming years of austerity; cuts to all sorts of benefits & services, extra charges on wages, VAT increase, property tax, water charge and probably a few more I’m missing, and definitely a few more yet to come. 

Since the property tax came in, I've been forced to move home, saw my wages decrease until the company I worked for closed down. I’ve seen my village degrade, library hours cut, roads and footpaths a mess, rubbish increased, lack of council workers on the streets. 

Water is now "managed" by Irish Water who are a joke of company and the most in the spotlight thing of the years of austerity. With overpaid management & consultants and too large a work force, leaks are still widespread, and boil notices still a common practise. I can’t get the Gardai to come to my house when its broken in to, or when I witness a hit and run, but Irish Water will have as many Guards as they need to remove protesters in minutes.

This protest was the first time I noticed some Guards being antagonistic. There has been dozens of protests since, but this was the biggest, I think people have just given up...

Dublin Tattoo Convention 2015

So this year was the 13th Dublin Tattoo Convention. Another great event, with tattooists from all over the world, and great entertainment from Blood or Whiskey, Klingonz and loads more. I even dug out the studio (for the first time in 5 years!) but unfortunately people were very reluctant to come in to the booth for a shot so only got a few, but still got some shots of the great tattooists at work. 

Nathan working on nearly the last bit of space left

Paul Stansby from Lucky 13 working on what won "Best Black & Grey"

Horishachi working on event organiser Paddy

Horishachi working on event organiser Paddy

Horishachi working on event organiser Paddy

Dualta of Dark Valley Tattoos and Wally of Classic Ink drew in the
Tattoo Wars competition

Blood or Whiskey

Klingonz

Aine

You can see all the photos here.