Yes, peaceful. As Eoghan pointed out to me in the car on the way home from a mammoth shopping expedition, merry is nice but isn’t peaceful so much better? Peaceful, as in cut cut each other some slack, as in everyone tries that little bit harder to be less crabby, more patient, to go with [...]

Isn’t this boy a happy camper? He had been off oranges for a couple of weeks due to an upset tummy, and this is him getting stuck back in. Love the big happy mess he makes.

But there are presents under the tree! Nothing beats a bit of brown paper and red twine. {Photo nerd filter: I love the sparkles that shooting with a small aperture gives you, but also adore the dainty bokeh and shallow depth-of-field that shooting wide open allows. So for the top shot I did both, and [...]

Poor Yvonne. She arrives at the apartment carrying a bag of nachos, some dip and a bottle of Diet Coke, innocently thinking that she has come to watch the X Factor final. But see, Yvonne has arrived as the sun does a pretty little golden dance across my balcony, and within minutes she’s out in [...]

What do you do when it’s too cold to go out, too dark to take pictures and there’s nothing good on TV? Cut up some paper, get some duct tape and make some heart-shaped bokeh of course! These, I know, have been done (and done much better) a million times, but it was my first [...]

A couple of pics from Gemma Hayes‘ Crawdaddy gig last Friday. I was utterly exhausted from Thursday night’s celebrations (when KISS picked up the gong for Mag of the Year at the Magazines Ireland awards, go us!) but managed to drag myself across to meet Yvonne at Green Nineteen on Camden Street for a comforting [...]

I know very little about artificial lighting. I’m a massive lover of natural light, but really want to learn how to work with the man-made stuff. Over the past few months, I’ve been saving here and there and have invested in a few pieces and and have discovered a few great resources so I thought [...]

This documentary looks amazing.

I woke up to the pat, pat, pat of two toddler hands on my head. Ethan was up, and had decided it was high time I awoke too. There was really pretty morning light streaming through the window, so I grabbed my camera (I swear, I don’t sleep with it… it just happened to be [...]

Within the Frame by David duChemin Filled with lots of personal insights and simply stunning photography from around the world, this book really stands out from the rest. It’s tough to talk about vision and creativity in a market packed with speedy how-to tomes without losing your reader, but duChemin managed to keep me completely [...]