See2be Photography: May 2013

Clara-Louna is my youngest child, and proof that it's never too late to start again. She's now four and a half, and I'm fifty-two going on eighteen. That's men for ya!

Clara-Louna

Amalfi, Italy

What a wonderfully romantic wedding this was!
In a setting like no other!

Wedding on Amalfi coast

Photography has brought me to places in the world and in my heart I never thought existed. Photography has opened my eyes, mind and heart to another way of being and seeing. The long days of running and racing are over, and I'm not talking about "track & field events" either!

Sailing to Aulderney

It's been an education, thankfully a slow one too. It reminds me of what my uncle said to his wife when she accused him of slowly becoming an alcoholic, he said 'I don't want to rush it'!

Burmese Delta flood victim

View from U Bein bridge, Mandalay

Photography is a way of life, a way of seeing and gets me away from the mundane. I get bored quickly and even the good things in life can become mundane very quickly, and that is when I up and leave with my camera. I'm a wanderer by default. I was raised by wanderers, well my father anyway. I guess my mother was a trailing spouse.

Camille with a pearl earring

An actress I met in Paris

Clara-Louna jumping for joy

Live in the moment

And enjoy it!
I do my best, and most of the time thanks to Clara I'm in the moment. She is always in the moment. The moment I say no to a bon bon (sweets), or a gateau she gives me hell, but five minutes later she's singing. That's the way to be!

Always joyful on a swing

No Fear!

There's enough fear going around. I tell Clara to take a risk, not take care!

Any excuse and she'll jump

It was a great craic!

Donegal people are just super sympa as a French man might say. Very good people and very helpful as I discovered during my photography workshop there. They made it special!