Category Archives: It Can’t All Go Right
Say Cheese
The Durrus Cheese dairy is a little off the beaten track. One of those “left-at-the-crooked-tree-and-straight-on-until-you-meet-the-moonrise” kinda places. Owner Jeffa Gill gives me simple directions over the phone. She tells me to find the post office in Durrus and pick up … Continue reading
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Lapland Wedding – Day 4: The 3200
Yesterday I was in uncharted waters, far outside my comfort zone. Lapland is a dim place this time of year. It is even dimmer when it’s overcast. And that dimness only lasts for six hours or so. Otherwise it is … Continue reading
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Lapland Wedding – Day 2: Disaster?
Apparently, the Finns have 40 words for snow. That’s as may be, but at the moment there isn’t any. Not a flake. And none is forecast before the end of the week either. The locals are scratching their heads. At … Continue reading
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Life Is What You Make It
Life is funny at times. Not funny ha-ha, but funny odd – though of course it is at times funny ha-ha as well. Two weeks ago, my family and I were involved in a car collision. Nobody was hurt. Our … Continue reading
LOOK OVER HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I thought I’d burst an eardrum, such was the roar from behind me. Worse was the fact that the photograph I had been waiting 15 minutes for, crouched down and peering through the railings at the stairs across the landing … Continue reading
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A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Work
Yesterday, I left my cameras in the back of my mother-in-law’s car. I realized this on the 9.30 Cork-Dublin intercity as it passed through Mallow. With every passing moment, I was getting closer to my assignment and further away from … Continue reading
Filed under It Can't All Go Right, Other photographers
The Wall
I suppose it was a fairly predictable outcome. At my age, if you push yourself hard enough, work long enough hours, take on enough projects, drive enough miles, don’t get enough sleep, you will end up running into a mental … Continue reading
Filed under It Can't All Go Right, Personal
Lost in Translation
Being a documentary photographer is all about capturing the truth. Kinda. Sometimes the truth can be a bit slippery. Take this photograph from a recent wedding for instance. What is going on here? Is this a slap or a caress? … Continue reading
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Is Being Unobtrusive A Handicap?
I’m in a bind. A little while ago, I wrote about an experience of being mobbed by other photographers at a wedding. They overran me as if I weren’t there. At another wedding, not that long ago, the mother-of-the-bride came … Continue reading
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Patience
“Have patience,” the reverend said, calmly, reassuringly, with a smile. His timing was perfect. I felt the anger and tension subside; enough, anyway, for my mind to clear and for me to get a grip on myself. The red mist … Continue reading
Filed under It Can't All Go Right, Professionalism
