Antrim Coast Road
Built in the 1820s using a lot of dynamite The Antrim Coast Road opened up the towns and villages along ...
Astronomy Talks
I’ve done many talks, usually on astronomical subjects over the last 12 or so years. I’ve filmed a few and ...
Astrophotography for Beginners
It is often assumed that because the stars only come out at night, taking photographs of them must be difficult ...
Astrophotography for Beginners Talk
This is a talk that I've delivered a number of times over the years, hopefully improving with each version. This ...
Atmospherics
Cloud formations, Lightning, Contrails, Halos, Rainbows. All are atmospheric phenomena that can be seen almost everyday and which can make ...
Aurora Borealis
Northern Ireland is not the best place in the world to see the Northern Lights. That would be Norway, or ...
Beaghmore Stone Circles
Here's an interesting place! Beaghmore Stone Circles are up in the Sperrins above Cookstown. A collection of Circles, Cairns and ...
California 2010
In March 2010 we decided to do a bucket list trip, flying into LAX and out of SFO driving up ...
Carnfunnock’s Butterflies
2019 has, for some reason, been a fantastic year for butterflies in Northern Ireland. They have appeared in large numbers ...
China 2009
This was the trip of a lifetime, travelling to China to see the 22nd July 2009 Total Solar Eclipse, the ...
Circuit of Ireland Rally 2022
Here's some footage from the Cairncastle leg of the Rally. Great to see some older cars like the Mk2 Escorts ...
Cosmic 35 – A Soviet Classic
This is a camera that was made in the LOMO factory in Leningrad (now St Petersburg) in the USSR about ...
Eclipse Collection
A particular branch of Astronomy that has always fascinated me is the eclipse. I've seen the Total Solar Eclipse three ...
Film Photography
This of course used to be the only way of doing photography until the digital revolution came along around the ...
Football – Larne v Linfield
Well I had to look this up, but it looks like the last football match I went to was Watford ...
Grand Canyon 1995
Here's a small collection of shots taken at The Grand Canyon in 1995 during a whistlestop drive across the USA ...
Johnson Space Center
Mainly known as the home of Mission Control, Houston, there is much more to JSC than this. We visited the ...
Kennedy Space Center
For a space nut like me, this place is paradise! Positioned on the east coast of the United States, almost ...
Kodachrome 1935-2010
Kodachrome was a superb fine-grained colour slide film made in various speeds from 1935-2010. At this point the combination of ...
Las Vegas and Arizona 2018
This was a Road Trip across some of the most amazing parts of the South-Western United States flying in and ...
Marble Arch Caves
Situated in County Fermanagh, these caves are an absolute must see if you're in the area. Carved out of limestone ...
Micro Four-Thirds Photography
Back in 2012 my photography was at a crossroads. I was really using three sorts of camera. I had my ...
Murmuration of Starlings
This magical event of nature happened, quite spontaneously, while Jude and I were walking along the seafront in Brighton while ...
Noctilucent Clouds
Noctilucent Clouds are very well observed from Northern Ireland during the season from the end of May to the beginning ...
Pentax Espio 928
This was my Zoom Compact camera in the late 1990s. Towards the end of the film era the previous generation ...
Pentax PC35AF-M
This was my compact camera in the 1980s when I was travelling a lot with work, so it has been ...
Portglenone Sunflowers
Pictures from what has become the essential annual pilgrimage to Portglenone's Sunflower field ...
Red Arrows Belfast Flypast
This was a very quick flypast of Belfast at 13:58 on Saturday 15th August as part of the 75th Anniversary ...
Sallagh Brae Bluebells
Normally one might expect to find bluebells in the shaded area within a forest, however it's not always the case! ...
Slideshows – Greatest Hits Collections
I often, at the end of the year, take a look through my favourite snaps of the year and compile ...
Space Exploration Talks
Having been at school during the time of the Moon landings I have always had a special interest in them ...
The Painted Ladies Of Carnlough
This was just a simple afternoon walk up to Cranny Falls from Carnlough, only I happened upon this one bush ...
Tollymore Forest Park
Nestling in the shadows of the Mountains of Mourne, Tollymore is a true paradise with waterfalls on the fast-flowing Shimna ...
Tollymore Forest Park
Tollymore Forest Park was the first state forest park in Northern Ireland, established on 2 June 1955. It is located ...
Vintage Camera – Sony DSC-R1
This was a camera that I quite fancied when it was new in 2005, but it was quite expensive at ...
Vintage Lens – Minolta AF 50mm f2.8 MACRO
This lens was one of those introduced by Minolta in 1985 when they launched the 7000 AF - the first ...
Vintage Lens – Minolta MD W-Rokkor 35mm f2.8
In days of old this would have been considered a moderate wide-angle with a field of view significantly wider than ...
Vintage Lenses
One of the joys of using the Micro Four-Thirds system is that the flange distance - ie the distance from ...
Woking in 2019
Although I had lived in a few places in England during my childhood, by far the longest time was my ...