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Hey, Look What I Shot, Dublin (2026)

06/01/2020

Taken on New Year's Day from inside the ruins of the Hellfire Club, overlooking Dublin. No idea who the guy is/was. But he seemed to be enjoying the view.

16/09/2018

Some people love graffiti. Others hate it. When it’s done well, and in the right location, it can be very cool. Like this mural in Phibsboro, Dublin 7.

07/06/2018

Not long after I got my first proper camera, I popped along to an exhibition in Dublin by a local photographer called Greg Matthews. He'd just been named 'Street Photographer of the Year' and he was showing off some of his best shots. I found his pictures very inspiring. Most were of Dublin, all of them in black and white. After I'd wandered around the exhibition, I stood and chatted to Greg for a while about his work and he shared tips on how he'd taken the pictures and how he'd edited them afterwards. I was still finding my feet with a camera and very self-deprecating of my own work. Greg asked me to send a link and a few days later he sent me a lovely email back, with some feedback and words of encouragement. I bumped into Greg a few times after that - notably at the People's Photography exhibition, which we both did in the summer of 2015. I found out this morning that Greg passed away earlier this week. He was a lovely guy and took some cracking pictures. I thought I'd share my own personal favourite of his here. RIP, Greg.

06/03/2018

Last week's snowfall in Dublin encouraged me to get back out and about with the camera. Too often these days I find myself just snapping on the iPhone. Nice to be doing it properly for a change! Here's one of my favourites from my wander around the city...

21/12/2016

It's rubbish walking to work in the rain. Shuffling along sodden pavements, dodging umbrellas, skipping around puddles and looking out for those wobbly paving stones that sq**rt a manky load of water up the back of your leg when you step on them.

Sometimes though, when the skies clear and the drops stop falling, wet mornings leave behind big puddles. And big puddles mean reflections. And reflections mean a good opportunity for a unique snap. A bit like this one - of the Spire on Dublin's O'Connell Street.

20/12/2016

Dublin at Christmas, 2016.

You'd think it would be easy getting a festive snap at this time of year. But if it's not the red and white bollards, clumsily covering up the scars of the Luas works, getting in the way, then it's the fear of tripping up the throngs of Christmas shoppers with a stray tripod leg.

I'd spent a couple of hours snapping away fruitlessly around the city centre before I hit upon the idea for this shot. It took me about 30 attempts and my right hand (yes that's my grubby paw) was almost numb by the time I was finished, but the end result doesn't look too bad.

I'm normally not a fan of selective colour in pictures, but I think it works well here (Thanks for the tip Conor McCabe).

Merry Christmas to my small band of followers. As they say back home - have a gid yin!

10/08/2016

People quite often ask me what my favourite picture I've ever taken is. I do have one, but this isn't it. I'll save that for another post some other time.

One of the most intriguing things I've found since I first started showing people my pictures, is how everyone's #1 seems to be wildly different. Last year I asked a a bunch of friends to help me whittle down a few of them to enter into a competition. I got some lovely feedback, but the end result was that my shortlist went from 5 pictures to about 15!

Anyway, what's all of that got to do with the picture I'm posting here? Well, I was having a scan through my Flickr page and was surprised to see that this is my most viewed picture. I found that odd, as I've always thought it to be a little bit 'meh'. But "one man's trash" and all that...

09/07/2016

I took this photo almost 12 months ago to the day, while over staying with my folks in south west Scotland. I was enjoying a glass of wine with my old man when I spotted a pretty spectacular sunset taking place outside the kitchen window.

I grabbed the camera and ran the 500 yards or so to the loch at the bottom of the road. The water was perfectly still and the warm summer sun was blasting its last few rays into a big dirty rain cloud, illuminating the sky over the local houses.

I sent the shot to the local paper and a few weeks later was chuffed when they made it their 'picture of the week'. It was the first time one of my pics had made a printed publication. And the first time my name had been in the local paper without the words 'referred to procurator fiscal' after it!

13/05/2016

A strange but lovely thing happened when I set up to take a picture of the sunset in the Phoenix Park the other evening. I'd bent down to take a couple of test shots, when this little girl whizzed past the front of the camera. I didn't think anything of it until I was looking back at the pictures I'd taken later that night.

Normally test shots get deleted straight away, but there's something about this one that I quite like (I think it's the expression on the girl's face). I've no idea who the little girl is, but I'd love to get this picture to her if possible. It's probably a long shot, but let's see if the power of social media can help it find its way. Please feel free to share or forward on!

10/05/2016

The first hint of summer weather enticed me to venture out with the camera for the first time in weeks last night. With only half an hour or so until sunset, I didn't have time to venture far. But that's one of the beauties of living close to the Phoenix Park.

These fellas looked pretty comfy, sprawled out in the long grass with the fading sun on their backs. I ruined that for them though, poking my lens in their faces (not a euphemism!) and they scarpered just after this was taken. So too did the sun. I just hope that's not the last we'll see of it over the coming months.

05/04/2016

Last week marked two years since an old guy took the notion to drive like a lunatic around Dublin city centre before ramming his car into the old oak doors at the front of Trinity College.

I never heard why he did it. The story at the time was that he'd forgetten to take his meds one morning, jumped in his car and went on a mini-rampage around College Green. Or maybe he just realised it was only Wednesday and there were still three whole working days until the weekend!

Either way, it meant that Trinity's beautiful old doors had to be replaced - at the princely sum of almost €45,000.

Thankfully, whoever made the replacements did a pretty good job. Looking at the front of Trinity today, you'd never really know that the doors were only a couple of years old.

This shot was taken on a day when a thick mist had descended on the city. Looking through the old brown doors felt a little like looking into an old medieval town. People often think this is two pictures superimposed together. But, if you look closely, you'll see the lights of the car and a splattering of colour on the sandwich board just inside the door on the left.

31/03/2016

Quite often a song pops into my head when I'm out taking a snap. I've no idea who the guy in this picture is, but when I spotted him and his dog sitting back and taking in the view of Dublin from the top of Montpellier Hill, I could hear The Verve track 'This is Music' rattling around inside my brain ... "Stood at the top of the hill over my town, I was found".

The guy looked quite at home sitting atop that rock. Although I have to admit I thought he was going to punch me in the face when I asked him if he'd mind if I took a picture. He stared back at me for what felt like about 5 minutes, sniggered, took a drag on his cigarette and then ... finally ... shrugged his shoulders and muttered "go ahead". I felt about three feet tall. But I got the shot.

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