The rain pours down on Cobh on a dreary Sunday afternoon recently.

The Pet Shop Boys played to a capacity crowd in the Marquee, Cork, last night and it was a great night. We bought the tickets originally in 2019 for a 2020 show but then the COVID19 pandemic happened and everything was cancelled that year. The Examiner has a great write up of the concert (archive.org…

A mural called “What is Home?” painted by Asbestos. A figure wearing a cardboard box on it’s head looks out on a derelict site next door, and across the road the site of the new convention centre, if it is ever built..

The Milky Way captured from inside Teide National Park. This is a stacked image created from 19 images of the sky and 10 “noise” images. It was assembled in Sequator using this video tutorial to help me figure out how to use it. Final adjustments in Lightroom. Getting to Teide National Park, inside a volcano,…

The bus stops on St. Patrick’s Quay are being moved to various locations around the city disrupting the future travel arrangements of people who use them. You used to be able to get a bus from west Cork to the city, walk to the next bus stop and hop on a bus to Dublin but…

Not much use for a night club in the middle of a blistering hot day in Tenerife.

We’ve seen a lot of the Ukraine flag in the last few months following the invasion of that country by Russia. Before that I didn’t realise the wall facing the Centra in Dingle had the same colours. Looking the worse for wear and not the right shades of course.

At the tip of the Dingle Peninsula as the sun sets on an April evening.

Most of the kids and some of the adults who took part in the Blarney Fun Run today. Blistering heat didn’t stop this group enjoying themselves and I saw lots of happy smiles as kids crossed the finish line. Surrounded by everyone else is Michael, the Little Blue Hero. He was guest of honour and…

An Fear Marbh, or Inis Tuaiscerat (Inishtooskert in English) is an Island off the Dingle Peninsula, Co Kerry. I’ve photographed it many times but it’s a picturesque area so I’ll photograph it many more times I’m sure!

The Jewel of the Seas, a gigantic cruise liner operated by Royal Caribbean left Cobh in Co Cork yesterday. The Cobh Confraternity Band played music while she undocked and set off. Looking up at this enormous ship makes you feel like insignificant. The decks extend up into the sky and she left the harbour quickly…

I was out with members of Blarney Photography Club last night at Clougheenmillcon near Blarney. Deer have been spotted in the area but I’d only glimpsed one while driving past some months ago. A runner approached me with a big smile asking if I’d seen the deer. It was about 300m further on down the…