Dolphins. Little feckers. They were right there, fewer than 10 metres off the bow of the boat. But would they come closer and put on a show for the camera? Would they, my general purpose seat. On previous shoots, I've...

In this episode of my photography podcast, you'll hear me talk about my gallery expansion. You'll also hear about the huge prints I'll be able to show on my new first floor, and how one of my large photographs caused...

When Carol, my gallery manager, called me during filming, I knew it was important. So I took the call. I'm glad I did. She had lost her mind. Or so it seemed. Carol was in the gallery with a client...

Organising photo tours is like completing a jigsaw puzzle made out of puppies. You think you have everything in its proper place until you discover that one of the pieces has had a generous bladder evacuation where it shouldn't have...

Let me tell you about one of the great pitfalls of landscape photography: Thinking you have the shot. Here's a story from Dunmore Head, Co. Kerry. I'm as easily seduced by a successful photograph as the next guy. That moment...

When things go to plan on a photo trip, everyone has a terrific time. When things go wrong, they have an even better time, funnily enough. They also often end up with a great dinner party story to tell. Nobody...

What happens when things go wrong on a workshop or photo trip? Well, if it's in Ireland, your clients end up having an even better experience than they had counted on. Find out more in this month's episode of the...

I often get asked about the gear I use. That's understandable. Photography is 50% about taking photographs and 100% about buying gear. Lovely gear. So, to answer the question about the equipment I'm using at the moment, here is an...

Poll an tSéideáin, Inis Meáin, Aran Islands Poll an tSéideáin, Inis Meáin, Aran Islands Sometimes you don't have to travel far to discover and make great photographs. In fact, you don't have to budge an inch. All it takes is...

Imagine having this as your view while you have a business meeting. The monks who lived in these stone beehives on Skellig Michael many centuries ago did. And now people gathering for business at global IT giant Cisco can too....

I've been spending a lot of time in bogs this year. OK... Having read back that opening line, I think I should clarify the kind of bog we're talking about. I don't mean as in 'washroom', as our American friends...

I swear to you that the recording you are about to hear was not planned to go the way it did. It's just one of those coincidences—fed by a particular pair of minds. In episode 7 of A Life in...

Have you heard episode 6 of A Life in the Landscape yet? If you have, you'll know that the most expensive piece of photography gear I own is the size of a Ford 4x4 truck. In fact, it is a...

My new gallery in Killarney, where we had an adventure with the heating Over the course of the winter, it became apparent that the new gallery space was in need of heat. So I brought in a specialist heating engineer...

In the latest episode of the podcast, you'll hear why I was in Dubai, as well as get the latest instalment of the ongoing saga of my drone batteries' journey back to Ireland from Chile. Will I ever see them...

Niall Murphy and I go back a long way. We met in college, a lifetime ago. We have a shared love of photography. In fact, back when the internet was merely an addition to life rather than life itself, Niall...

A very few times a year, the city of Dubai experiences dramatic fog at sunrise. It transforms the already dramatic city into a wonderland straight out of science fiction as the skyscrapers appear to float in the sky When you're...

Frank admission: that headline is total clickbait. I didn't lose 250,000 image files. In a previous life, I was an IT specialist. And one thing I know from those days is this: you cannot trust a hard drive. But you...

Lunar eclipse, Ballingeary, Co. Cork Winter is a great time for landscape photographers in Ireland. It means we don't have to get up five minutes before we've gone to bed to set off for a sunrise shoot. And then there...

The Matterhorn with clouds swirling about its snow-covered flanks Over the holiday break, I had a chance to reflect on the work I produced in 2017. Here is my favourite photograph of the last 12 months: a picture of the...

2017 was a superb year. In this episode of the podcast, I look back at the highs and lows of my life as a landscape photographer in 2017. It's a good life, but not a perfect one, as you'll hear....