Tag Archives: Landscape Earlier this year (Jan. 2014) I went to Tromsø, Norway to chase the aurora borealis (aka Northern Lights). Planning a trip like this involved a lot of researching, months of reading, but this was really good as I felt very well prepared when I got there. I decided to write this post in an attempt […]   One of the highlights of my trip to Scotland last week, the Glenfinnan Viaduct is more than familiar to any Harry Potter enthusiast. Located on the West Highland Line in Glenfinnan, Highland, Scotland, the railway 21-arched viaduct was built between July 1897 and October 1898, entirely of concrete, and it’s iconic horseshoe curve is now famous worldwide. The train conductor […]  This weekend I went for the second time to one of my favorite areas here in Ireland – the Dingle Peninsula – and this time I was in the most westerly settlement of the country: Dún Chaoin, anglicised as Dunquin. A small village in west County Kerry where the Irish language is still widely used. It […]  I am delighted to have one of my photos of the aurora borealis (a.k.a. Northern Lights) featured on July’s cover of the Astronomy Ireland magazine! No matter how my photographs are used, I feel like a kid on Christmas Eve, but there is something rather special about a magazine cover. The photograph was taken in a small […]  Nature in as a whole tends to be a profoundly beautiful thing, but there are few things more magical than finding yourself under a canopy of trees in a tree tunnel on some warm summer evening. Whether they’re formed naturally, accidentally, or with a little help from some patient and talented gardeners, these tree tunnels […] |
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