On Thursday night I went out with my son to photograph Comet NEOWISE. This is a comet that was only discovered a few months ago on March 27 by NASA’s NEOWISE telescope. [caption id="attachment_27563" align="aligncenter" width="853"] Comet NEOWISE, 15 sec, f/6.3, ISO 640.[/caption] Comet nuclei are cosmic snowballs of frozen gases, rock and dust that…

Clannad, the Irish band that is this year celebrating 50 years together began the year with a Farewell Tour. They played in the Opera House in Cork in early March when I saw them and they were great. I didn’t know much of their music beyond the obvious themes to Robin Hood or the Harry’s…

If you’ve driven along MacCurtain Street lately you’ll have noticed a few lanes are blocked and York Hill is completely closed. A 73-bed “micro-sleeper hotel” is going in there which I presume means rooms will be a little bigger than the capsule hotels in Japan..

Lanzarote Airport sits right by the coast. There’s a beach at one end of the runway where you can get great photos of the landing planes. I wonder what the pilots think of the onlookers watching at this dangerous stage of a flight?

At the bar of a hotel in Lanzarote, Canary Islands.

A few snapshots of Puerto Del Carmen in Lanzarote in the evening when the sun has set.