Day 266

It's snowing. Not only that, but it is snowing incredibly heavily, and the world has turned white. I'd worry for the flowers that thought spring had arrived.

Day 257

A lovely sunny start to the day, and I took a wander around the retail park across the road from me. I was looking for a different view of Three Rock, but I couldn't find a good one. I did however find this image, in a small flood on an abandoned section of the development. By now you've probably realised that I like water and reflections.

Day 249

This shot is exactly as shot: shooting in to the sun, with only a polariser on the lense, and I'm thrilled with this result.

Day 248

Never mind four seasons in a day, it's four seasons in an hour here today. We've had snow, rain, wind and sun in the last sixty minutes.

Day 244

Oh what a miserable day: raining steadily, with heavy cloud on the mountain. Confined to quarters I am, listening to the rain on the roof and giving thanks that I brought an extra book.

Day 241

A cloudy day today in Chamonix, so the resort of choice was down at the bottom of the valley amongst the trees. The forest always looks magical coated in snow like it was today.

Day 237

What a deluge we had this afternoon! There's still snow on the hills, but it was far too wet to leave the house, and anyway I have a lot of packing to do for my trip to France. This photo was made by my new polarising filter, which brought up the reflections nicely.

Day 236

In search of the snow again today: it's amazing how the landscape is utterly transformed within five minutes of leaving home. With snow there are photographs everywhere, but the problem is that there is no longer anywhere to pull in, as all the ditches and verges are snow drifts. So, when I saw what I thought was today's image I had to park and walk back half a mile. Lucky I did too, as although the original image I'd seen didn't pan out, I did see this wool snagged on barbed wire, and otherwise I'd have missed it.

Day 235

Another foray to find the snow, and a successful one this time. Once you get a bit higher it's a winter wonderland. I had quite a nice photo of a couple of lads taking photos of the scene, but they didn't seem too keen on me using it. Luckily at that point a robin redbreast appeared, and struck quite the perfect pose for a snowy day.

Day 234

I went in search of the lovely photogenic snow, but I couldn't find any. But, in the course of my wandering I ended up in Knocksink Wood, and found this wooden walkway to nowhere.

Day 233

It's cold and snowy outside, so why would you do anything other than snuggle up in a warm blanket?!

Day 232

Freezing cold morning in Dublin. I was down in Sandymount with my new ND and Polariser filters, and they resulted in texture in the sky that wasn't really there.

Day 230

What an awful day in Dublin: cold and wet, with sleet as I walked to work this morning. This image captures for me just how grim it was today.

Day 229

Another day back at work, and another day closer to full health. It was a lovely morning this morning for minutes at a time, and Fitzwilliam Square looked like a wonderful oasis in the middle of the city.

Day 227

I'm still not back to full operating capabilities, but today was an improvement on yesterday, largely because I remembered to bring my camera. This is a burnt out house on my way to the Luas: it looks grim when front lit but it makes a nice silhouette.

Day 209

It's not hard to articulate exactly how I feel about this house. It's an empty manor in Curraghchase National Park, and I fell in love with it when I first saw it a few years back. I feel that in many ways it's my ideal house, right down to its "needs some work" nature.

Day 197

First proper day off in a long time, and there was even some winter sun, albeit for quite a short time.

Day 195

We've quite a nice office at the moment: a first floor room in a Georgian terrace on Baggot Street. The only real drawback is that we've the world's coldest kitchen. Today it was actually colder than outside, which really contravenes at least one law of physics. The only redeeming quality is this rather quaint iron window frame; having said that, it may also be a contributing factor to its incredible cold.

Day 194

Today was bitterly cold, and I didn't manage to get out of the office in daylight to take today's photo, so I took a slightly different route home along the canal. I took this on a thirty second exposure at a narrow aperture, and then corrected the orange cast in post.

Day 192

What a beautiful morning: cold, crisp and frosty. The Dodder park was still covered in frost when I passed on the way to work, and the colours in the trees were incredible. A wonderful way to resurface after the madness of the last fortnight.