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Northern Ireland has two regular air shows. One in Portrush and one in Newcastle, Co Down. This is a selection ...

Built in the 1820s using a lot of dynamite The Antrim Coast Road opened up the towns and villages along ...

I’ve done many talks, usually on astronomical subjects over the last 12 or so years. I’ve filmed a few and ...

It is often assumed that because the stars only come out at night, taking photographs of them must be difficult ...

This is a talk that I've delivered a number of times over the years, hopefully improving with each version. This ...

Cloud formations, Lightning, Contrails, Halos, Rainbows. All are atmospheric phenomena that can be seen almost everyday and which can make ...

Northern Ireland is not the best place in the world to see the Northern Lights. That would be Norway, or ...

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Here's an interesting place! Beaghmore Stone Circles are up in the Sperrins above Cookstown. A collection of Circles, Cairns and ...

In March 2010 we decided to do a bucket list trip, flying into LAX and out of SFO driving up ...

2019 has, for some reason, been a fantastic year for butterflies in Northern Ireland. They have appeared in large numbers ...

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This was the trip of a lifetime, travelling to China to see the 22nd July 2009 Total Solar Eclipse, the ...

Here's some footage from the Cairncastle leg of the Rally. Great to see some older cars like the Mk2 Escorts ...

This is a camera that was made in the LOMO factory in Leningrad (now St Petersburg) in the USSR about ...

Dolphin Chase on the Antrim Coast ...

A particular branch of Astronomy that has always fascinated me is the eclipse. I've seen the Total Solar Eclipse three ...

This of course used to be the only way of doing photography until the digital revolution came along around the ...

Well I had to look this up, but it looks like the last football match I went to was Watford ...

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Here's a small collection of shots taken at The Grand Canyon in 1995 during a whistlestop drive across the USA ...

Mainly known as the home of Mission Control, Houston, there is much more to JSC than this. We visited the ...

For a space nut like me, this place is paradise! Positioned on the east coast of the United States, almost ...

Kodachrome was a superb fine-grained colour slide film made in various speeds from 1935-2010. At this point the combination of ...

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This was a Road Trip across some of the most amazing parts of the South-Western United States flying in and ...

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Situated in County Fermanagh, these caves are an absolute must see if you're in the area. Carved out of limestone ...

Back in 2012 my photography was at a crossroads. I was really using three sorts of camera. I had my ...

This magical event of nature happened, quite spontaneously, while Jude and I were walking along the seafront in Brighton while ...

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Noctilucent Clouds are very well observed from Northern Ireland during the season from the end of May to the beginning ...

This was my Zoom Compact camera in the late 1990s. Towards the end of the film era the previous generation ...

This was my compact camera in the 1980s when I was travelling a lot with work, so it has been ...

Pictures from what has become the essential annual pilgrimage to Portglenone's Sunflower field ...

This was a very quick flypast of Belfast at 13:58 on Saturday 15th August as part of the 75th Anniversary ...

Normally one might expect to find bluebells in the shaded area within a forest, however it's not always the case! ...

I often, at the end of the year, take a look through my favourite snaps of the year and compile ...

Having been at school during the time of the Moon landings I have always had a special interest in them ...

Startrails in Lockdown ...

Surfing Bundoran ...

This was just a simple afternoon walk up to Cranny Falls from Carnlough, only I happened upon this one bush ...

Nestling in the shadows of the Mountains of Mourne, Tollymore is a true paradise with waterfalls on the fast-flowing Shimna ...

Tollymore Forest Park was the first state forest park in Northern Ireland, established on 2 June 1955. It is located ...

This was a camera that I quite fancied when it was new in 2005, but it was quite expensive at ...

This lens was one of those introduced by Minolta in 1985 when they launched the 7000 AF - the first ...

In days of old this would have been considered a moderate wide-angle with a field of view significantly wider than ...

One of the joys of using the Micro Four-Thirds system is that the flange distance - ie the distance from ...

Although I had lived in a few places in England during my childhood, by far the longest time was my ...

Woking in 2021 ...