I am a self-taught amateur photographer, being an engineer by profession, and living in County Tipperary.
It all started in 1994, when I was 19, when I got my first camera, which was a cheap compact film camera. It was fine for taking photos of places that I would visit once and would hardly expect to come back to any time soon, or for special occasions. Then in 1998, I got an SLR film camera, and that is when I started taking photos featuring light trails created by long exposures. Back then, digital cameras had started to make an appearance, but the pictures they took were of a resolution good enough to put up on a computer screen, and they were much more expensive than they are now. I got my first digital camera in 2002, it had a resolution of 2 megapixels, it was only a compact camera, but being digital, there was ‘no need to go to the drugstore’, waiting to see how the pictures came out.
And then in late 2010, I got a digital SLR camera, a Nikon D3000, that I have been able to really pursue my main areas of interest, namely landscape, low-light and light trails, which I have included in my Gallery, and some more photos are also available for viewing on my Flickr page.
I’m sure if you have lived in Ireland since the 1970s or 1980s, you will remember that Irish roads have been the laughing stock of Europe. In fact, we have had to wait until 1983 for our first motorway. We’ve come a long way since then, and I have taken many photographs that attempt to convey this progression by featuring light trails from traffic on roads and motorways around Ireland (which the EU/ECB/IMF Troika cannot repossess, by the way), and some of which appear on this site.
I also like to try to convey the drama of moving water, be it coastal areas, rivers or waterfalls. Again, in terms of creativity, one is limited by one’s own imagination.
These photographs can be viewed in the Gallery section.
Thank you for taking the time to visit my site. For me to improve my skills, and the appeal of this site, I would encourage you to leave comments or critiques.