A glowing yellow YIELD sign cuts through the darkness like a solitary performer on stage, casting warm light across empty spaces and parked cars, and suddenly you’re thinking about cinema and loneliness and how good urban photography is basically just about finding the drama hiding in everyday places. I love photographing car parks. Great views…

Restaurants dot the walkway under the Galata Bridge in Istanbul. I walked by and there were people enjoying food there in what I’m guessing is one of the more expensive touristy places to eat in the city. There’s a tradition of fishing from the bridge and I remember seeing many lines coming down from on…

On a cold and damp night steel wool lights up the path and railings.

A lot of street photography is just keeping your eyes open for something to happen. It’s luck and also being prepared. Luckily I was carrying my camera while shopping in M&S and spotted the abundance of pink and a family walking past, and then a mirror neatly reflecting the departing people. It’s nice when these…

A young woman walked past me carrying her dog. I had to get a photo. Bonus points for the lady in the poster watching me. 🙂

Moments before yesterday’s photo of a beach inspector there were two seagulls. I was watching them as I walked down Garrylucas Beach and neither moved so I have a couple of shots of them with dramatic waves thundering behind them. They seemed to be not disturbed by the wall of water beyond. I on the…

Garylucas Beach in Co Cork was hit by 40kph winds this afternoon, with tall waves crashing on the beach. I took a few photos but retreated to the car as it was so cold. Within minutes the wind had ripped right through me. Luckily, gulls are protected somewhat from the cold by their feathers and…

I climbed up and down these steps daily while on holiday. They led to my apartment while I was in Fuerteventura. Even in daylight you had to be careful, but it was at night that you were really challenged. There was no lighting at all except for the street lights that shone over the high…

Walking through the preserved barracks at Auschwitz II-Birkenau confronts visitors with the stark reality of life and death in Nazi concentration camps. This photograph captures one of the sanitation sheds, where rows of crude concrete benches with circular openings served as communal toilets for thousands of prisoners. Under the holes ran open cesspits or channels,…

We visited the lighthouse at Faro de Tostón just before sunset. Lots of low cloud threatened to hide the sunset but fortunately a gap was left just above the horizon so we got a lovely glow and even after-sunset luminescence that provided some interesting silhouettes in the sky. This shot came about just before I…

The cocederos, the shallow ponds where water evaporates and salt is collected, visible in the foreground in front of the fin whale skeleton at the Salt Museum in Fuerteventura. Shout out to Finbarr for the lift to the museum that morning! 🙂

The recent rains in Fuerteventura have transformed the island. If you look at this location in Betancuria on Google Maps you’ll see a dusty field, and the street view shows mostly bare ground with bushes planted here and there. In the background is La Casa del Queso where we enjoyed some coffee and sandwiches. Locals…