This is the text of a talk I gave accompanying my exhibition of Irish Landscape at Culturlann Belfast in August 2015. Photography is a new medium to me. Normally I express myself verbally or in text. I have been doing that for decades, and I have acquired an ease in doing it, and I am surprised by…

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Is it cheating to reframe your picture with a little creative cropping? I don't think so.

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In Ireland we value the sun more than the rain in summer because we need a respite from three other wet seasons and don't always get it. Yet the rain can do lovely things.

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Please feel free to add tags to my pictures in any language.

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This is a public well in County Clare, just north of Fanore on the coast road.

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I had a fascinating opportunity to interview the journalist Lindsey Hilsum before an audience in Belfast.

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This is the view from my doorstep. I was trying out my new Leica x1.

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Back in the days of printing from film, it was common for a photographer to distribute the light unevenly, to accentuate detail on one part of a picture or another, or to enhance the exposure in darker areas. Now we can do this in a moment with grad filter software and it makes a huge difference - b…

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This is Conamara on a November afternoon.

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They keep walking into this trap, lured by chocolate and peanut butter.

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