I was delighted to find this new edition of what was one of my favorite childhood toys growing up. I was doing some studio shots on Saturday and Snoopy was kind enough to pose for a photo while I had everything set up!

I went out to test out shooting with my LX2 and tripod to see what kind of results I could get I love the way this little camera never ceases to amaze me.I think you’ll admit this result is pretty good

While walking around Dublin on Sunday some of the many wall painting caught my eye. I love the “urban decay” feel from this kind of stuff. Anyway, click the image above for a larger version or visit this link to the flickr set with some of the cool street art I managed to capture.

I was out taking some pictures of the city on Sunday morning taking advantage of the rare break in the clouds to try and get some newer shots of the city center. I was fairly lucky with the weather, and here is one of my favorites from the shoot.

Kelby Training.com has just launched a great new series of online classes from acclaimed photographer and photojournalist Joe McNally. If you want to learn more about flash photography and studio lighting check it out. I subscribed to the whole site on the basis of this alone.

A while ago I bought a Panasonic LX2 because I wanted to always be able to have a camera on me at all times. Every now and then you’re rewarded for this with some amazing strokes of luck, such as last week, when I was walking home from the train I was greeted with some magnificent skies. Luckily I had my trusty LX2 on me and was able to grab these:

Once Again I’ve re-designed my photography site. Using Apple’s iWeb to create the basic Layout and Wordpress for the blog, this is finally going to get off the Ground. It’s surprisingly difficult to get all the elements together to make a site that you’re happy with, to showcase ones photography, but also to have a blog, so you can keep visitors updated and create a narrative. I had been trying to gather the disparate elements together using various bits of open source php and html code, but I am not an experienced coder, so my time was spent in an endless series of frustrating circles trying to get a working site together that still had a strong design

In the end I went with Apple’s iWeb. I had initially dismissed it as too basic, but with a little effort it can do some really neat stuff and pretty quickly. This whole site was put together in the better part of a day, including all the albums and creating he wordpress theme (ok, I modified it from my main blog, but still). I think it works well and I’m happy with it. I would appreciate any feedback anyone has to offer, so please feel free to add comments to this or other posts.

Over the coming weeks I will do my best to blog here regularly. In the mean time, check out the galleries and my Flickr feed. Thanks for visiting.