February 17, 2022 - I was thrilled to see my four-shot composite of Comet Leonard in the January 2022 issue of Astronomy Ireland magazine –...

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...

June 06, 2019 - As today is the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Normandy Landings on D-Day in 1944, I remembered some of my recent shot...

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...

September 23, 2017 - Since 2014 I’ve been shooting thousands of images at the Hell and Back endurance events at the Killruddery Estate in Co.

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

February 24, 2017 - After the drama of yesterday's Storm Doris, I was out early again this morning to capture the waning crescent Moon risin...

February 23, 2017 - It was a bit fresh early this morning as Storm Doris passed over Dublin so I headed into Dun Laoghaire hoping to get som...

February 20, 2017 - Yesterday, Offshoot camera club went to a Point-to-Point in Tinahely in beautiful south Co. Wicklow. It was run by the B...

February 06, 2017 - Bulloch (or Bullock) Harbour between Dun Laoghaire and Dalkey is one of my favourite shooting locations so I'm upset by...

November 05, 2016 - I was in Cork recently when news broke of a Red-flanked Bluetail on Mizen Head. This Eurasian Taiga relative of the Robi...

October 13, 2015 - I’m Just Going to Check this Garden for an American Redstart... and I May be Some Time! Update 12 Sep 2017 Check out t...

March 20, 2015 - The clouds over Shankill were just thick enough to allow me see the eclipse comfortably without eye protection - probabl...

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...

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...

February 22, 2015 - Herself arrived home with the shopping last Friday evening and said I should get out and look at the sky. She was right,...

February 14, 2015 - Just a quick post for the day that's in it - crocuses on the green in my estate. I took this one day last February with...

February 07, 2015 - Oops - updated on 10 Feb because I left out the last shot! Photographing seabirds often involves trips to offshore isla...

January 27, 2015 - My Profile in the current Newsletter of the Irish Photographic Federation "In the Spotlight: John Coveney LIPF Q: Which...

August 10, 2014 - I haven’t blogged in while due to disgracefully letting life getting in the way of photography! But I have done a few sh...

April 27, 2014 - Updated - with video clip - below. My entry for Met Eireann's spring weather photo contest got to the final and will be...

March 02, 2014 - Last Saturday, Offshoot organized a members’ workshop at Glendalough with renowned landscape photographer Peter Gordon w...

February 01, 2014 - I was out and about north of the Liffey today but with limited time for photography except for a quick visit to Howth Ha...

January 31, 2014 - Our route on our west Clare storm chase last Sunday took us through Ennistimon or Ennistymon as it is often spelled. Giv...

January 28, 2014 - UPDATE 3 Feb: Shot published in the Cork Examiner on 1 Feb 2013 Followers of my Facebook ramblings will know that I w...

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'...