Steam rising from the Heineken brewery in Blackpool is a common enough sight, with the accompanying smell familiar to anyone who lives near a brewery.

I visited the Igreja Paroquial da Graça (Church of Our Lady of Grace) in Lisbon early one morning. There’s a beautiful view of the city, but if you look behind and around you’ll find these lovely cobbles. In the early morning, the houses opposite cast a shadow on the street and on the wall of…

The sun lit up the clouds over Valencia in Spain one evening as rush hour continued.

Sometimes it’s the simple things that inspire us, like a banana. And a yellow roadside bollard in the distance.

No 6 in Kinsale recently. I loved the red colour and the contrasting white/cream door and windows.

St. Peter’s Church, or Alter Peter, in Munich is the tallest building in the vicinity. Local regulations prohibited building taller buildings except for a few years a while back when ugly glass office blocks were built a few kilometres away. That’s the Frauenkirche, a large gothic church in the middle distance. So, you get a…

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

Malaga, Spain. October 2018.

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

On the streets in Porto, Portugal. November 2019. In the background is the shop featured in this photo I published earlier this year.

The sun rises over the houses of Blarney early one morning at the end of March, 2022.

The tower of St. Anne’s Church rises above the north side of Cork City with the Eir building and their own tower next to it.