Dzogchen Beara is a Tibetan Buddhist Retreat Centre located on the Western tip of the Beara Peninsula in West Cork. I took these photographs early one morning in 2006, while Jason was attending a retreat. The place is breathtakingly beautiful (as is every nook and cranny of West Cork) and very, very peaceful. We went back down for a week in 2010 and picked out several houses and locations that would be ours when we win the lotto. In lieu of that big lotto win we’ll just have to visit on a more regular basis. We’re bombarded with misery here in Ireland on the radio, on the television and in the papers, it’s nice to know peaceful places...

This was a shoot from the hip/upper chest area while trying to look nonchalant in the pub moment. I liked how the man reading the paper was reflected in the small mirror behind the bar. I’m thinking I probably should have cropped out the face in the far right, but it’s posted now.

On a very chilly January day, myself and Jason joined in with Peter Donegan’s Garden Group for our fifth trip out. Peter is a gentleman, a genius and a landscape gardener extraordinaire and has organised all of these trips off his own bat and they’ve all been brilliant. This time the trip was to Skerries Windmills in North County Dublin. The mills in Skerries were used for grinding corn: wheat, oats and barley – wind power complementing water power, particularly in times of drought. At the dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII in 1538, the Canons Regular of St Augustin of Holmpatrick owned c.1000 acres of land...

I took this 2 or 3 years ago on a photowalk in Dublin. It was a really dreary, wet day and we walked around the docks. This rocket was down at The Point / 02, which was being re-designed at the time.

Yesterday I started the day on the beach in Kerry and the weather was so lovely we drove back over to end the day on the beach too. Think I may have partially burned my retina off while taking the picture above, so changed over to camera with smaller lens to get an overview of the scene below....

I’m staying in Listowel for a few days and the weather has been glorious to say the least. Two solid days of summer so far. Went over to nearby Ballybunion early this morning for a nice walk on a near deserted beach.

On this day in 460 A.D., Saint Patrick, Christian missionary, bishop & apostle of Ireland, died at Saul, Downpatrick, Ireland. Now this picture has absolutely nothing to do with St. Patrick and it’s not taken in Downpatrick either, but it just felt like it could be related. It was taken near Crookhaven in Cork.