My name is Derek O’Brien, and I am an amateur photographer based in the south of Ireland. Not only that, I also have an interest in 3D modelling, app design, and web design.
Thank you for taking the time to check out my website, where you will find interesting pictures that fall into several categories, including landscape, coastal scenery, urban and nightscapes.
You could say that the time of year largely determines the genre of photography I concentrate on, for example, nightscapes during the autumn, winter and spring, when it gets dark eariler.
During the past few months, I have turned my hand to 3D modelling, using the open source 3D package called Blender. I have to say that it is a serious rival to commercial packages, in terms of what you can do with it. With all these features, there is a lot to learn in order to master Blender.
I hope to write blog posts for this website on these subjects in the future.
Why not check out my Youtube video channel, where I will try to upload videos on a regular basis.
7th Dec 2024
To follow on from a climb of Carrauntoohil towards the end of July, and bridging a two-year gap for uploading content on YouTube, I headed down to Torc Waterfall at the end of August. Torc Waterfall is approximately 7km from Killarney, on the N71 between Killarney and Kenmare. The first time I visited there was […]
25th Nov 2024
It was in October 2021, when I climbed Mount Brandon, the highest mountain in Ireland outside the Macgillycuddy’s Reeks. I had climbed Galtymore and Lugnaquilla earlier that year, soon after travel restrictions related to the Covid-19 pandemic were starting to be lifted. I subsequently made videos of these climbs, and uploaded them to Youtube. So […]
11th Jan 2022
It was during the Christmas break, that I decided to go down to Wexford, for a photoshoot after sunset. There is a railway line running along the quay in the town, from Wexford’s O’Hanrahan Railway Station (named after one of the 16 executed leaders of the 1916 Rising), down to Rosslare Harbour. It is along […]
24th Oct 2021
After climbing Lugnaquilla during the summer, the next mountain I had on the list was one higher up on the list of Ireland’s highest mountains. And so it was, having waited for favourable weather conditions since the summer, I had planned to climb Mount Brandon, on the Dingle Peninsula, in County Kerry. This was my […]
2nd Aug 2021
It was in mid June, when I decided to climb the highest mountain in Leinster, namely Lugnaquilla, in County Wicklow. Easing of restrictions imposed due to the pandemic meant that for the first time this year, inter-county travel was permitted. Lugnaquilla has the third-highest prominence in Ireland, with a height of 925 metres. It is […]
5th Jul 2021
It was in May. In the light of easing of travel restrictions that had been brought about at the start of the year, in response to the third wave of Covid infections, I decided to climb Galtymore. At 918m, this is the highest mountain in County Tipperary. Well, on the border between Tipperary and Limerick. […]
27th Apr 2021
Last weekend, I took advantage of the recent easing of travel restrictions in the country, to make a trip to the Clare Glens Waterfalls, situated on the Annagh River, on the border between the counties of Tipperary and Limerick. This is located near the town on Newport, and off the R503 Thurles – Limerick road. […]
29th Mar 2021
Seeing that I have had a Nikon D3000 since 2010, I figured it was time for an upgrade. And so I recently took the plunge, and got myself a new DSLR camera. There are a number of factors that influenced my choice of camera, not least of those the cost. But there are several other […]