The Burren is a limestone karst area in the west of Ireland, featuring a very un-Irish landscape and a world renowned flora consisting of...

Blanket Bog, Spiderweb, Sunrise.

Shadows of the past: 4000 years old pines embedded in peat.

Covid-19 Pandemic Lockdown 3.0 and a rare, calm winter morning at Ross Bay.

November is traditionally the start of the stormy season in the west of Ireland (this doesn't mean however that storms can't hit at other...

Autumn in the Burren is beyond words especially on a calm morning like this. The chilly air, the soothing autumn colours and the warmth...

I had been waiting for a morning like this for almost three years. On this September morning a beautiful dawn came together with low...

Nature photography and landscape photography are becoming ever more popular. For some it is a way to reconnect with the natural world,...

Today Ireland is a small island at the north-western edge of Europe. Its origins however lie far away from its current position, on the...

The final weeks of the Silent Spring project became unexpectedly difficult. Having to go out every day and produce a more or less decent...

The spring of 2020 turned out to be of the driest and warmest in years. Many wildflowers started to bloom several weeks early, the most...

Initially my daily "lockdown picture" wasn't much more than a way of killing some time and taking advantage of the good weather Ireland...

February brought a series of storms that battered the country with high winds and heavy rain. In places the amount of precipitation...

Some millennia ago Ireland was covered in vast forests dominated by oaks and pines. A sudden change in climate triggered the rapid...

One of the side effects of climate change: More frequent and more violent storms. In 1088 the Chinese scholar, engineer and philosopher...

Ireland is infamous for its mild and wet climate. The main reason for this is the Gulf Stream which is part of a world-wide network of...