new work 2026
new work 2026
This gallery showcases photographs from 2026 both landscape and wildlife. I try to add to the gallery as I go so please check in regularly so that you don’t miss any new work.
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January 2026
A moody start to 2026 at the Berne Salmon Fishery Cottage
A rare snow day at Ballymena, Co Antrim
A snow capped Slemish peeks above the cloud
A wave catches the last of the light on the Causeway Coast
White Rocks
A Blue Tit poses in late afternoon sunshine
A Yellow Hammer brightens the dark bracken at the Inch Wildfowl Reserve, Co Donegal
A rare close sighting of a Great Northen Diver at the Inch Wildfowl Reserve
A beautiful afternoon on the East Strand at Portrush
February 2026
A colourful dusk on Portstewart Strand
The rising sun lights up the marram grass on the sand dunes at Portstewart Strand
Ballylumford Power Station
Time and Tide 1. What looks like an abstract painting is in fact the effect of the elements on the paintwork of an old wooden boat at Ballylumford Harbour.
Time and Tide 2
Time and Tide 3
Time and Tide 4
Down the hatch 1. Redwing. Belfast Boat Club
Down the Hatch 2. Blackbird. Belfast Boat Club
Swan on the River Lagan
Black Headed Gull. River Lagan
Mallard. River Lagan
Curlew. Portstewart
Ruins of Dunseverick Castle
The Ballintoy Sea Stacks
Fulmar. Dunseverick cliffs.
Pairing Up. Fulmar at Dunseverick cliffs
Oyster Catcher rock jumping. Portstewart.
A gentle afternoon at White Rocks
March 2026
Brent Geese, Malahide
Splashdown 1. Brent Goose, Malahide
Splashdown 2. Cormorant, Malahide
Spring Tide 1. Waves are one of my favourite subjects so whenever there are big seas and good light I am often to be found at the coast, especially at Ballintoy.
Spring Tide 2. Sheep Island, North Atlantic
Spring Tide 3, Sheep Island
Dunluce Castle as the sun goes down over Inishowen, Donegal.
The road to Slemish
The Herring Pond, Portstewart
Portstewart Harbour
Passing Storm, Downhill Strand
Storm Passed, Downhill Strand
Downhill Strand with Mussenden Temple
Downhill Strand
Spring Tide 4
Spring Tide 5
Spring Tide 6
Spring Tide 7
Nest Repairs, Buzzard, Antrim Hills
The Ground Beneath our Feet, Disused Quarry, Coleraine
Misty Sunset, Portstewart Strand
Murlough Bay
Murlough Tree
Clearing Fog, Murlough Bay
Sand dunes at Castlerock
Inishowen and Mussenden from Castlerock
Splash. The Barmouth
Dominican College on a storm morning
The Fisherman's Cottage, Portstewart
White Park Bay
Rathlin, Sheep Island and the Secret Beach
The Secret Beach 2
The Barmouth, through a 600mm lens
The Wren, small in stature, mighty in voice
Sheep Island
April 2026
April 2026 began with a trip to visit family in Nashville to celebrate my wife’s birthday. On four occasions I was able to visit the wonderful wildlife haven of Radnor Lake while the birds were raising their young. This explains why the early photos in this month’s collection are almost entirely devoted to wildlife. On my final visit I was rewarded with a fly past by the magnificent Bald Eagle.
Wildlife gives way to landscapes at the end of the month with a long anticipated trip to the Scottish Island of Harris in the Outer Hebrides with longtime photographer friend Kieran Dodds.
If anything the weather was too good, with mostly empty blue skies and flat seas. But this gave good opportunity for drone photography and plenty of walking and talking. A good time.
Mourning Doves, Oak Hill, Nashville
Black Vulture, Radnor Lake, Nashville
Great Cormorant, Radnor Lake, Nashville
Bald Eagle nest with chick
Cardinal, Oak Hill, Nashville
Pond Sliders, Radnor Lake, Nashville
Great Blue Heron, Radnor Lake, Nashville
Redbellied Woodpecker
Radnor Lake, Nashville
Brown-headed Cowbird, Radnor Lake
Turkey Buzzard, Oak Hill, Nashville
Wood Duck, Radnor Lake
Pileated Woodpecker, Radnor Lake. My first sighting of this large member of the woodpecker clan.
Canada Geese
Mockingbirds Face-off
American Robin, Oak Hill, Nashville
Eastern Cottontail, Oak Hill, Nashville
Tree Swallow
Blue Jay
Bald Eagles
Bald Eagle flying low beneath its nest
Bald Eagle causing havoc to a community of nesting Great Blue Herons. Shortly after this it dispatched one with ease.
After three visits the Bald Eagle finally flew my way.
A spot of lunch for the Great Blue Heron, Radnor Lake
The Beast from the Green Slime! A common snapping turtle.
Great Horned Owl. An injured bird that is being cared for in a sanctuary at Radnor.
Red-winged Blackbird, Radnor Lake
Great Blue Heron, Radnor Lake
Eastern Bluebird, Oakhill, Nashville
April Sunset, Portstewart Strand
On the road to Skye. The Falls of Dochart.
Glencoe. Photographed at 50mph!
The Corpach Wreck beneath Ben Nevis
Snow clinging on at Ben Nevis
The Highlands
South Harris
Seilebost and Luskentyre, Harris
Seilebost Beach
The Temple, South Harris
Aerial View of Seilebost
The Edge
Watercolour
South Harris at sunset with the Isle of Skye on the horizon
A raven takes off from the cliffs at Seilebost, showing unmistakable signs of his lunch (a rabbit).
A change in the weather marked our return to the Scottish mainland.
The deep waters of the Minch
On the road to Edinburgh, we stopped at the famous Eileen Donan castle.
The Fourth Bridge
Edinburgh Skyline
Edinburgh
The Scott monument
Carlton Hill
May 2026
More travel this month, first to Donegal, then to Prague and Vienna (more birthday celebrations) and finally back to Donegal, this time to the excellent outdoor Wild Island.
Sandbank, Loughross Point, Donegal
Loughross Point
Asaranca Waterfall, Donegal
Maghera Sanddunes, Donegal
Maghera Beach, Donegal
Glencolmcille Church of Ireland, Co Donegal
Glencomcille, Donegal
Glencolmcille Road, Donegal
One of the finest views in Ireland, with the Glen Head Signal Tower on Beefan and Garveross Mountain, with the point of the Sturrall Ridge showing behind it. Donegal at its best.
Sea Pink, Donegal
The Wishing Arch, Causeway Coast
A portrait view of the Wishing Arch
Golden sunset at Dunluce Castle
Spring Tide 8
The view from the Bridge. Prague and the next trip to celebrate my wife's birthday, visiting our son on location.
The famous Prague Astronomical Clock.
The remarkable Jewish Cemetery, Prague
A panoramic of the old town square in Prague.
On the river. Prague
Meet the family. Egyptian Goose.
Protecting the food for the family
Prague River Rat. The myocastor coypus
Prague. View from our river cruise
The Prague Cathedral
Train to Vienna
Encounter with Picasso
Birds and Insects. Juan Miro.
City ride.
In homage to the great man
Before the concert.
Feeding time. Otter at Wild Ireland
The lazy white fox. Arctic fox, Wild Ireland.
First and only glimpse of the Lynx. Wild Ireland
The beautiful hedge sparrow, sadly a rare sight these days.
Looking sharp. Red fox, Wild Ireland
June 2026
Summer rain, Portstewart Strand
Downhill Demesne
Lupin and Daisies 1
Lupin and Daisies 2
Lupin and daisies 3
An evening stroll on the strand
Layers
Downhill Demesne 2
The road to the Giant's Causeway
Port Na Spaniagh
Lacada Point
The Causeway Coast
Looking down on Lacada Point
The Causeway Coast 2
Sunset light on Lacada Point
Mussenden wild flowers
Rock of Dunamase, with the ruins of a 12th Century castle, rising almost 50 metres above the plain near Port Laois in Co Laois, Ireland.
Barley field
Barn owl. Our first visit to Irish Photography hides. Unfortunately the owl kept its distance and doesn't look its best in the rather harsh artificial light. We tried again the next night but that time the owl didn't show before we needed to catch some sleep!
Cuckoo. Dull overhead conditions meant that flight shots were not possible but it was wonderful to see a cuckoo close up for the first time in my life. Three days after the shoot, his work here done, the cuckoo headed back to Africa, leaving others to care for its offspring!
The cuckoo attempts to deter an approaching bird
The jay wins!
Feeding a big child. The woodland hide attracted a wide variety of birds., including these blackbirds.
Magpies are smart in both senses of the word.
A pool provided additional photographic interest with this Ringed Dove
One of my goals for the year was to photograph the elusive Pine Marten. This handsome creature and his/her mate visited on three occasions providing some wonderful opportunities for photography.
The leap.
The landing
The Buzzard and the Magpie waged a constant battle. Guess who won... Try as it might the magpie failed to deter the buzzard from its lunch.
Incoming. One of many photographs of buzzards at the Woodland Hide.
The beautiful Yellowhammer.
A very smart Bullfinch
The European Jan
Rain greeted us on our final morning at the Irish Photography Hides, adding interest to the small birds that braved the elements, like this Greenfinch.
Goldfinch in the rain
Our final visit was to the Kestrel hide. Once the rain had stopped they swooped in.
Seeing the kestrels close up, including newly fledged chicks, was such a treat.
A sand martin catching insects above the River Bush
Muck Island, off the North East coast of Ireland, and home to an impressive sea bird population.
A group of guillemot. Muck Island
Razorbill. Muck Island
Puffins on Muck Island
More puffins - can't resist!
On our return journey from Muck Island my first sighting of a Peregrine Falcon.
A low flying gannet
Approaching Inishtrahull
Inishtrahull, home to Ireland's most northerly lighthouse. It had a small resident population until 1929 when most departed, largely, it is reported, due to illegal trawler fishing, having only four behind until the lighthouse was fully automated and the last inhabitant left.
Inishtrahull lighthouse
Evidence that puffins may be nesting on Inishtrahull, with a small group of eight clearly visible and two outside what looks like a nesting burrow.
Puffins disturbed by our arrival.
Grey seals and common gulls call this small island their home.
The high vantage point where the ruins of the former lighthouse still stands allows the opportunity to photograph this great black-backed gull head on.
Last man standing. An ageing red deer, last of his kind on the island.
A beautiful orchid, characteristic of the island's flora.
An angry gull, concerned about the threatening presence of a Great Skua.
The Great Skua suddenly took off and flew directly overhead. Great Skua's will attack humans if they think their young are under threat. Thankfully this one left me alone.
At the opposite end of the island I spotted a pair of Great Skua
Taking advantage of the rocky terrain I was able to approach within good photographic distance without disturbing the birds.
Great Skua fly past. This is a large, powerful bird also known in the UK as a Bonxie. It eats mostly fish, either caught in the sea or stolen from other birds, hence also referred to as the pirate of the seas.
Inishtrahull also has a colony of Arctic Terns, noisy, excitable birds that are very graceful in flight.
Arctic Tern
Dancing in the air.. Arctic terns on Inishtrahull.
Fun in the garden with some intentional camera movement.
The cheerful giant daisy.
Summer finally arrives on Portstewart Strand
Sunset at Atlantic Point
Buzzard, Dunadry, Co Antrim