If you go down to Blarney Castle now you’ll see 30,000 daffodils blooming in the beautiful gardens there. In my last post I joked that the daffodils were confused but it’s a plant that flowers early and tolerates the cold so it’s perfect for this time of year. Be sure to check out Ferbal O’Callaghan’s…

John Finn’s superb photo of this grain silo that he posted today on Facebook (unfortunately you’ll need to be friends with him to see it) prompted me to dig up this photo of the same building from my output queue. It was shot in 2014 when we went exploring the docklands one afternoon and I…

The Berwick Fountain, Grand Parade, Cork. November 2014.

Buildings decay when business moves on.

Sorting through purchases in TK Maxx, Cork.

A man walking with a ladder on The Grand Parade, Cork. He was working on a the façade of The English Market.

The Ferris Wheel in Cork all lit up at night.

Here’s another shot of the ferris wheel and the lights of Cork City along the River Lee from earlier this month. It’s taken from a location near where I shot my previous Glow photo. I prefer this one however, the colours are more saturated, the starlike effect is enhanced and the angle is more interesting….

Street lighting shines like stars as Glow continues next to the River Lee in Cork.

The famous red double decker busses of London passed by as I took this photo of a building and advertising display back in 2008.

This year the ferris wheel is back on The Grand Parade, Cork for Christmas again!

A member of An Garda Síochána directed traffic in Blarney last night when Santa visited and the lights were turned on in the village. This is a long exposure zoomed shot, of about one second duration with the flash firing at the end of the exposure. To replicate: Make sure you set your flash to…