A photograph taken in the gardens of Kilkenny Castle of the fountain in the middle of the formal rose gardens. This was taken while the sun attempted to burn away the looming raining clouds. The sun did not win in the end.

A photograph of the River Nore flowing past Kilkenny Castle, yes the procesing may not be to everyones taste but I dunno it just kinda made me go wow!

You gotta love summer, and the great news is that Ireland seems to be enjoying a lot of sunshine of late. With this in mind the gardens in Powerscourt had to be visited.

The flower beds are all looking stunning, but I imagine that another visit before the summer ends will be in order to see everything in bloom.

On Sunday I had the pleasure of going to Ireland’s Eye, just of the coast of Howth. The trip was organised by Peter Donegan and a fantastic day was had by all. Many thanks to Peter for organising it and for giving me the opportunity to shoot a bird I had always wanted to photograph out in the wild, the Puffin.

Ireland’s Eye is home to so many different types of Birds and over the next few days I hope to put them up on blog.

I took this picture quite a while ago while out in Howth and have no idea why I never posted it. These seagulls had balls I must say they just stood there holding their ground staring at me, seemed nothing could scare them.

Ok I apologise I do like snow a lot, not sure about this photo since snow actually proves to just give you kinda white images and thats it. Anyhow I do some of you enjoy it like yesterdays image.

Another photo I took at the Hill of Tara on my mini photowalk with Sarah Kavanagh, who by the way has started her own photoblog at slkav.com and is well worth checking out, this time looking back from all the burial mounds towards St Patricks Church with its gorgeous trees surrounding it, the snow gave the whole area a very dreamy look, hence the reason I love the snow so much.

Ok I am trying my best not to put up snow pictures but as I have said I do love the snow and since we seldom see it in Ireland I went a little mad with the camera!

As I have said I love what the snow did to Dublin. Suddenly even Lower Baggot Street, the road where I work, was made look beautiful. Enough Said.

So last Sunday I went into town with plans to take some photos of things without people in them, my reason for this? well of late I have felt a lot of the images I have been posting seem to be of people.

Dont get me wrong people are amazing subjects to take photos of, but I was finding myself getting into a rut of sorts and felt this was all I was able to take pictures of, so Sunday was a challenge.

I failed! but I do love this image taken of the bridge near Capel Street, the reflections of the pedestrians really caught my eye, I do hope you like it too!