Now in its sixth year, Glasgowbury has grown to become Northern Ireland’s greatest outdoor music festival. Through the sun and occasional shower, the bands played and the people slowly got drunk. The overall atmosphere, however, was one of positivity and joy and very few assholes to be found. The lineup was superb, with the best [...]

Having recently been chatting to local sports photographer Russell Pritchard I was invited to have a go at shooting a football match on Wednesday night. Glentoran, where Russell is official photographer, played Maccabi Haifa, from Isreal, at The Oval stadium in East Belfast. With the score already 0-6 on aggregate, the home team gave away [...]

A few images from TwoStep at the Limelight last week. Cutaways The Jane Bradfords Colenso Parade

In Belfast we had our own Scott Kelby World Wide Photo Walk, along with 899 other cities. Although a walk had been pre-arranged for the day as part of Trans, I did my bit to let everyone know about the Kelby side of things through the Belfast Flickr group where the walk was organised. (Photo [...]

This is what I came home to yesterday. Last week this was my parents’ kitchen…

I hate to seem like I’m totally dragging this out, but I’m quite overwhelmed by all the birthday wishes I got yesterday. Who needs birthday cards! 48 twitter messages 15 facebook wall comments 4 blog comments 3 facebook note comments 1 Lastfm message 1 text message Thank you!

Everyone likes a competition, especially when the prize is €2,500! Ruby Card, the Republic of Ireland’s newest pre-paid credit card, have launched a photo competition with Pix.ie to find the winning design for their card. The theme is depicting beauty from around the Republic of Ireland, and your community could be in with the chance [...]

It’s my birthday. No no, it’s ok if you forgot, I’m not making a big deal of it. For a change I had drinks with some friends in Dublin at the weekend. It was a lot of fun. Myself and Lauren went on a Secret Photo walk (for the new Simply Zesty site) followed by [...]

Don’t forget that the World Wide Photo Walk is being held this Saturday, 18th July. This is a photo walk organised by photographer Scott Kelby as a way of getting people from all across the world out on the same day – the images taken will then be uploaded to Flickr, tagged accordingly and the [...]

I am offering a free non-commercial photo shoot throughout the rest of this month and August. This will include one 5×7. Leave a comment or email me at shoot @ philokanephotography .com if you are interested.