In a nutshell - I'm a 53 year old Photographer who loves to record the landscape of my native Co. Kerry. I spent many years (far too many) working as a photo-journalist producing images to someone elses dictate. Not having editorial control over the images was always so frustrating and caused many a heated debate in editor's office's. But after going to one too many war zones & witnessing too much sufering & torment I decided it was time to take pictures for me.

I have embraced the digital age, but still prefer to shoot my photographs on film. It's just so much more tactile, a physical representation of my endeavours that digital can't give you. Besides, with digital camera's it's just too easy to press delete on the camera's menu. If you have gone to the trouble to create an image it deserves an existance! But I do process my images on the computer, it gives me great editorial control & I no longer have the dissapiontment of getting bad prints from a lab. When I hand in my digital file I know what I'm going to get. And I no longer have to spend long nights in a smelly dark room. (Just even longer night's in front of a computer screen!).

My great goal now is to produce a body of work that will show how I see my environment, it's light, it's weather, it's seasonal changes and hopefully give the viewer some sense of what inspired me to create the record. I have exhibited my work both in group & solo shows. I love watching & listening to people as they wander round a gallery where my work is on show. One day, hopefully, I will publish a book of my work that will be a lasting legacy of my humble efforts.