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Is it cheating to reframe your picture with a little creative cropping? I don't think so.

In Ireland we value the sun more than the rain in summer because we need a respite from three other wet seasons and don't always get it. Yet the rain can do lovely things.

This is Conamara on a November afternoon.

This is the view from my doorstep. I was trying out my new Leica x1.

This city can look pretty bleak sometimes.

This is the text of a talk I gave accompanying my exhibition of Irish Landscape at Culturlann Belfast in August 2015. Photography is a new medium to me. Normally I express myself verbally or in text. I have been doing that for decades, and I have acquired an ease in doing it, and I am surprised by the differences in how I emerge as a person in the different media, verbalising and image making. Verbalising brings my cynicism forward while there is no cynicism I think in the photograph…

They keep walking into this trap, lured by chocolate and peanut butter.

Back in the days of printing from film, it was common for a photographer to distribute the light unevenly, to accentuate detail on one part of a picture or another, or to enhance the exposure in darker areas. Now we can do this in a moment with grad filter software and it makes a huge difference - but it feels like cheating, perhaps just because it is so easy.

Poet Ciaran Carson in a reflective mood at the presentation of the Irish Times Poetry prize to Seamus Heaney. Carson was himself shortlisted for the prize.

I wonder why we see so many damaged bikes locked up. Is it that owners of vandalised bikes like to leave them in place to remind the rest of us that there are thugs out there? Or can it be that this poor bike was atacked just moments before I passed?

I had a fascinating opportunity to interview the journalist Lindsey Hilsum before an audience in Belfast.

Please feel free to add tags to my pictures in any language.

This is a public well in County Clare, just north of Fanore on the coast road.