This afternoon I sat on the grass of the City Hall in the sun and read a book, during my lunch break. I have never done this before and it felt great. Part of my new plan to be a “better” person. Step one – read more. The last book I read was Johnny [...]

Yesterday I got my wish. I went to the beach.
This has been going on for a good few weeks now – months even – a desire to see other parts of Northern Ireland. Partly the fault of Flickr, particularly the NI group where there are often great photographs by photographers (or people with cameras?) in [...]

Who would possibly refuse an opportunity to go to the beach? When mentioned generally you wouldn’t, would you? Okay so normally the question refers to a beautiful sandy beach in the south of France, or Spain, or maybe Italy, just generally somewhere that people often go for a holiday. Definitely not Northern Ireland.
Of course I [...]

I’ve bought a nice new lens, something most people would consider essential when my only lens at the minute is a fixed focal length (no zoom) 50mm. It is a great lens which I have had lots of fun with in the last 2 weeks and the f1.8 aperture works wonders, though it’s definitely not [...]

These posts are becoming so few and far between, and to make matters worse all I want to write about is something that happened 2 weeks ago. Damn camera destroying my long run of great blog posts (shussh, I think so anyway!).
So as usual – I’m quite happy, its just a running theme at this [...]

I just never know how personal to make this bloggie thingie. I know I really shouldn’t. It’s that whole thing of really wanting to do something, but when it comes to the time of doing it, you realise it just ain’t right. I think thats right in this case, unlike that thing that you really [...]

Each day of the past week has been a joy. Great weather and taking part in enjoyable activities with the best people. I have also taken an average of 300 photographs a day, and had very little chance to even look at many. From gigs to exhibitions, waterfront walks to late-night construction workers even a [...]