I'm a self taught Photographer from Dublin, Ireland with a passion for landscape and night sky photography. I loved astronomy before I ever got a camera and I love to teach people about the night sky and the stories about the stars and constellations. My favorite times to shoot landscapes are sunrise and sunset.
To actually get pictures of the sky at night wasn't that easy when I started off about 5 years ago as I had no one to show me how to do it. This was a case of trial and error and going out night after night until I got it right. Now it's one of my favorite things to do.
Shooting during a meteor shower and capturing one on camera going 90,000 km per hour or getting a shot of the milky way from a dark site or the space station passing over or a comet in the sky is just a great feeling. Dublin city is no good for star shots as it has too many lights so I have to travel to find dark skies. I've often stayed out all night and made it back just in time for work the next morning.
Some people say I'm crazy going out to the mountains alone at night and are you not afraid in the dark but it doesn't bother me at all and I'm not always alone. One of my favorite pieces of poetry:
"Though my soul may set in darkness,
it will rise in perfect light,
I have loved the stars too fondly,
to be fearful of the night"
My idea of a perfect day is to go exploring around this beautiful island and go hiking with my camera up mountains and through forests and not see a single person all day. Someone once said to me 'How do you always seem to be in the right place at the right time' when they seen certain photos. It's not that I happen to get a nice shot with perfect light every time I go out, it's that I get out with a camera every chance I get no matter what the weather is like and hope I get something nice. It won't always work out of course.
You can't get a rainbow without a little rain
You can't get stars shining without darkness
You can't get the lightning without the storm
I love to travel and I always have a camera with me. I also love storm chasing as you can get some brilliant shots. For most of my shots I use a Canon 6D and a selection of lenses including the Canon 70-200 mm, Canon 24-70 mm, Canon 18-135 mm, Canon 16-35 mm, Canon 50 mm prime and a Samyang 14 mm wide angle lens. I would often leave the camera running for hours to get a star trail with the wide angle or use my star tracker with the 200 mm lens to get shot after shot of a distant galaxy or nebula.
This is who I am. If you want to know anything else just ask and I hope you enjoy my work.