My name is Derek O’Brien, and I am an amateur photographer based in County Tipperary, in the south of Ireland.
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 earlier.
I hope to write blog posts for this website on these subjects in the future.
1st Sep 2026
Over the past few years now, the seaside town of Tramore, in County Waterford has been putting on what they call a “Monster Firework Display”, around the third week of August, almost a week before the primary and secondary schools reopen after the summer holidays. I was in Waterford City one day in August when […]
24th May 2026
Few will remember a time before 1983, when Ireland didn’t have any motorways. It was at that time, the 5th of October 1983 to be exact that Ireland’s first motorway, the Naas bypass was opened to traffic. Before then, all traffic heading out of Dublin for Limerick, Cork and Waterford, and going the other way, […]
29th Jul 2025
After nearly four years of work, which one engineer working on the project described as akin to performing an open-heart surgery, but with the patient not only awake and conscious, but playing tennis, the final link on the Dunkettle Interchange was opened to traffic on the 12th February 2024. The Dunkettle Interchange is situated on […]
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 […]