Many of the streets of Valletta are narrow but bounded by 4 or 5 storey buildings. Look up and you’ll see blue skies between the buildings.

Cobblestone streets in Porto, Portugal. In Cork, they’d be dug up and half the street surface replaced with tarmac.

The enormous (for Lanzarote) Arrecife Gran Hotel & Spa sits in the harbour of Arrecife and dominates the skyline. It’s the tallest building on the island and not without controversy. Some time after it’s construction a law came into force forbidding the construction of such tall buildings on the island. This page says it was…

Take a tour of Cork City and you’ll pass by the old Roches Stores. Who knows what will happen to that grand building now? It’s been empty quite a while ..

Tourists waving to an incoming flight on Lanzarote.

The Ferris Wheel on the Grand Parade is gone now but just recently a crow was checking it out to see if it was fun or not.

This won’t win any awards for beauty but it’s part of the old industry of the city along the docklands. While this old building looms overhead lots of people were enjoying a warm June day at the Marina Market. Open air seating was all full with people enjoying their lunches. I have no doubt these…

A single exposure at 1/30 of a second because the road, even if it is in rural Ireland on the Dingle Peninsula. Cars drove past at most every 5-6 minutes. Lightroom’s new masking tools were really helpful working on this image.

The starry sky photographed in the darkness of Sheep’s Head, Co Cork last weekend. In between rain and storms I captured a few shots of our celestial neighbours.

Wires and clouds when I look up in the sky around Blarney. April 2016.

The Moon, as it was last night. It looks much the same tonight too!