Most definitely one of the best drives you can do anywhere in Ireland. You drive through the heart of the Beara Peninsula, with it's distinctive mountainous landscape all around you as the road winds it's way around crags and passes, emerging to a dramatic view from the top which ever direction you travel in. I've spent many days, mornings and evenings up here but this image showing the rising sun was just the right balance of drama in the sky which I didn't want to overshadow the drama of the road itself.

The main national route through the National Park in Killarney is bordered by wonderful Oak forests which in late April and early May spring back to life with new shoots of ferns and an abundance of Bluebells and Wild Garlic. I enjoyed many mornings wandering in and around these trees searching for compositions and this image was made just after some prolonged rain when everything just seemed to be springing into life again.

A location I had passed by many times without stopping but on this occasion the late morning light was a real beacon and I parked up nearby and spent a wonderful couple of hours finding compositions amongst the Oaks and moss covered stones. This image is all about light and the wonderful way it draws you into this scene with all it's textures and shapes. Woodland scenes can sometimes be too chaotic but the sun streaming through the gap in the trees in the background softens everything and makes this work really well. A favourite of many in the gallery, bringing the magic of the woodland into your room !

The appropriately named Danger Beach at Derrynane is a beautiful spot but the strong currents here are notorious. For me it's rocks at low tide make for interesting compositions in an otherwise difficult location to portray in an image. Here the green algae covered rock acts as the perfect focal point along with the little tidal pool it sits in. The composition of the rocks frames the distant Lamb's Head nicely and it's all set off with a typically dramatic winter sky in West Kerry.

I’m lucky enough to live only a few minutes away from this magical spot with great access to the coast and view of the Dunkerron Islands. Still mornings are a joy to be out and about here and with this full moon setting right over the bay it made for the perfect image.

Pink Moon - Killarney National Park Being in lockdown has been strangely enjoyable on lots of fronts, but not being able to head out into the hills has been quite frustrating.  Thankfully, I had a consultant's appointment in Tralee which I was going to just cancel, but then realised it was a ticket to freedom for a few hours at least !   So I changed the date by a couple of days, and left early.. stopping off in a completely deserted Killarney National Park on my way. I thought of making this image some months ago and had put it in the diary.  Seeing this beautiful full moon setting on this clear morning in this amazing place was very special, and gave me enough of a hit to carry me through another few weeks of lockdown. The detail in the print is amazing using the Canon 135 TS-E Tilt Shift lens to make the panoramic.  Can't wait to do a huge print of this for the gallery when we open.. but in the meantime you can order the first editions online !

The Bricín Bridge is one of those iconic Killarney Locations, but is very difficult to photograph unless you are on a boat. I choose the shore opposite and combined the lovely reeds and a long exposure for a beautifully moody scene.

If I weren't based in Kerry I would definitely be in Connemara. It's a similar landscape in parts, but it's mountains all seem to be far better placed, back from the roads , in perfect proportion to their surroundings. This scene was another that would be been passed by if it were not for the wonderful light and lingering mist on the mountains. Taken after a wonderful few days spent in Connermara, in Recess on the way back home, it also contains my facination for bogland and all the layers they can contain.

The Black Valley in Kerry is a place of great drama and extremes. Flanked by the highest mountains in Ireland, the McGillycuddy's Reeks, good light is a challenge in here any time of the year. Sometimes it's best when there's no light at all. On mornings where the fog lingers, the trees and winter colours can make for lovely compositions and something very different that what you normally see on other visits. Here , this line of trees is isolated perfectly from the chaotic drama of the craggy mountains rising behind them with the winter colour of the grass , softening the scene nicely.

This iconic location on the Beara Peninsula was one of the first places I visited with my camera many years ago when just starting out on my photographic journey. The waterfall is nestled at the very end of a dramatic valley with lakes, forests and megalithic sits to distract you on the way in to it. Filled from the lake above the flow reacts instantly to rainfall, so to see it at it's best you need to be there soon after a heavy rainfall as I did this day.

The Black Valley is a magical place and Lough Gummeenduff at the end of the valley is one of the most spectacularly situated lakes in Ireland. In summer time the light streams into the valley at sunrise from the north east and on a very still morning such as this, with the lingering mist it's a wonderful sight. I choose a panoramic format for this image to capture the drama of both sides of the valley and include as much of that lovely soft light in the sky as possible. A beautiful still scene with a hint of drama from a magical place.

One of my main goals for the PARKLIGHT book project was to find new views to familiar scenes, and you don't get much more familiar than Ladies View. Although the viewing point is justifiably hugely popular, I've never really found that it provided me with an interesting enough composition. So I began to explore the area around there and managed to find a more northerly and higher vantage point in through the woods above Looscaunagh Lake. It's quite a job to get through the dense and eerily dark woodland but breaking out to this view is always hugely rewarding.