Sometimes you can forget what got you interested in Photography in the first place. It’s easy when you’re doing professional work or in my case trying to build up a portfolio for some stock agencies, to loose heart and loose vision. You can become blinkered by what’s good enough to sell and start to ignore artistic or other possibilities right in front of you. I heard a great piece of advice recently from a professional who said that one of the most important things is to, every now and then, go out and take pictures just for the sake of taking pictures. Take pictures for yourself. Remind yourself of the joy of photography. Forget about what might sell and just go were your eye leads you.

So last weekend, in a rare bout of sunshine here in dublin I did just that. And I enjoyed it more than I’ve enjoyed taking photographs in a long time. Not that there was anything special, but I freed myself from self doubt and commercialism and just had fun. Because at the end of the day thats what it’s all about for me. Anyway, here are some of the shots I found interesting from my walk about in the dublin sunshine

(Incidentally, as an experiment I shot RAW+JPEG on my 5D, using custom picture setting. I normally only shoot RAW, but I was very impressed with the results of the JPEGS. All these are from the in camera Jpeg engine)