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Shooting Comet Leonard in Ireland in Dec 2021

February 17, 2022 - I was thrilled to see my four-shot composite of Comet Leonard in the January 2022 issue of Astronomy Ireland magazine –...
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Dalkey Island's Heritage and Wildlife - A Photo Essay

July 21, 2021 - It was a bright sunny first Sunday of July 2021 when I went to Dalkey Island, Co. Dublin - a magical offshore island onl...
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Strawberry Moon on the Front Pages!

June 18, 2019 - It was great to wake up today to see my “Strawberry Moon” – the midsummer full moon - on the front pages of the Irish Ti...
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How (Not?) to Photograph a Lunar Eclipse – Dublin September 2015

July 27, 2018 - Early this week, the Dublin weather forecast for this evening’s lunar eclipse on 27 July 2018 looked promising and I was...
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Poolbeg Jogger

May 12, 2018 - I’m delighted to have had two of my favourite types of shots published in The Times (Ireland Edition) this month. The fi...
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Fave Christmas 2016 Swim Composites at the Forty Foot

December 26, 2017 - Continuing with my look back over the last year, here are my favourite composites (#2-5) from the 2016 Christmas Swim at...
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Liffey Lights but No Eclipse Shots

August 24, 2017 - Last Monday evening, I headed into town in the hope of getting a shot of Ireland's very partial view of the Great Americ...
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Another Day - Another "Storm"

February 26, 2017 - Storm Doris was probably still blowing somewhere over Europe when news of her successor, Ewan started popping up in my f...
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Save Bulloch Harbour!

February 06, 2017 - Bulloch (or Bullock) Harbour between Dun Laoghaire and Dalkey is one of my favourite shooting locations so I'm upset by...
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Gale at The Great South Wall in Poolbeg, in Co. Dublin

February 02, 2017 - It was a bit wild at the Great South Wall in Poolbeg in Co. Dublin during the southeasterly gale and 4.0m high tide this...
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Plunge Pics at Dublin's Christmas Swim & How I Shot Them

December 30, 2016 - As well as shooting the Goal Mile in Shanganagh Park on Christmas morning, I also went into to the Forty Foot in Sandyco...
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DONATE to Goal Mile in Shanganagh Park

December 27, 2016 - One of Ireland’s best known Christmas charity events, the Goal Mile, was in Shanganagh Park in Shankill this Christmas D...
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Architectural Interiors at the Freemason's Hall in Dublin

November 19, 2016 - Recently, Offshoot’s got access to the Freemasons’ Hall in Molesworth Street in Dublin city centre. The building dates f...
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Dublin's 2013 Flightfest

July 22, 2016 - I’m planning to get to the Bray Air Display this weekend for the first time since 2010, so I decided to finally finish e...
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If you go down in the woods today . . . . !!

July 09, 2016 - One evening recently, I was minding my own business taking a quiet walk through a wooded corner of Killiney Hill until I...
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People at Cuala Mini-All-Ireland

July 06, 2016 - I've previously posted the best of my shots from the Cuala Mini-All-Ireland parade and players - and here's the final po...
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Players at Cuala Mini-all-Ireland

July 04, 2016 - Last Friday, I posted the first of three blog posts on Cuala's 2016 Mini-All-Ireland - the parade through Dalkey Village...
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Cuala Mini-All-Ireland Parade

July 01, 2016 - It was great to be asked by Cuala GAA - the best sports club in Ireland according to the Irish Times - to photograph the...
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Flickr Nostaligia

June 15, 2016 - Flickr was perhaps THE photo app of the noughties - and between 2010 and 2012 my shots regularly appeared in the Explore...
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Easter 1916 Centenary

March 28, 2016 - We headed into town yesterday to catch the Defence and Emergency Services parade to commemorate the 1916 Rising. I got t...
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Northern Lights Arcing over Dublin Bay

March 06, 2016 - I wrote a while back of my Aurora adventure in Co. Louth and since then I wondered if it would be possible to see the No...
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Pictures Are All We Have

February 25, 2016 - Words Are All We Have - Samuel Beckett. Here's two shots of this month's full Moon setting over Dublin's Docklands duri...
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Shooting the Queen Mary 2 on Dublin Bay

May 21, 2015 - Yesterday morning, 20 May, Matt O'Brien and I were up ultra early to shoot the Queen Mary 2 as she arrived on her first...
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Vintage Racing Fashion in Irish Independent Weekend Magazine

April 25, 2015 - The Vintage Racing Fashion Shoot is in the Irish Indpendent's Weekend Magazine today! See lots more from the shoot here.
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Vintage Race Day Fashion Shoot

April 24, 2015 - A fashion shoot I was commissioned to do a few weeks back to promote the Vintage Fashion & Decor Fair that is taking pla...
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Solar Eclipse in Shankill

March 20, 2015 - The clouds over Shankill were just thick enough to allow me see the eclipse comfortably without eye protection - probabl...
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Patrick's Day Portraits in Dublin

March 17, 2015 - St. Patricks Day is a great opportunity to get street portraits - either in the parade or in the happy crowds for a whil...
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Happy St. Patrick's Day

March 16, 2015 - For the day that's in it - the March page from the St. Anne's Calendar that I shot last autumn - click on the pic to rea...
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Black Guillemots Contre-Jour

February 07, 2015 - Oops - updated on 10 Feb because I left out the last shot! Photographing seabirds often involves trips to offshore isla...
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Faces of Dublin's Chinese New Year

February 05, 2014 - I went into Temple Bar in Dublin City Centre with the family last Sunday to see the Chinese New Year festival and the sl...
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Teal in Tallaght

January 10, 2014 - Yesterday at lunchtime I took a quick trip to Sean Walsh Park in Tallaght to see a Caspian Gull found by Graham Prole –...
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High Tides at Poolbeg

January 06, 2014 - The Great South Wall at Poolbeg is one of my favourite shoot locations as you can see from this set of previous work on...
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Solstice Sunrise

December 17, 2013 - OK, there's four or five days to go to the winter solstice but at 130 degrees from Dublin according to the Photographer'...
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The End of the Affair

December 11, 2013 - By now pretty much everyone knows about the New England style “ fall foliage ” colours we’ve had in Ireland this autumn...
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