The pub at Cleggan harbour, west Co. Galway. The ferry to Inishboffin goes from here but when I was there it had already gone. A nice wee town, the plan was to stop for lunch and maybe get some fish ’n chips but the place was heaving so I took some photos and drove on.
Molloys Garage, Co. Galway
Home for a few weeks, enjoying a welcome break from work. And getting a chance to do some photography, the kind I wouldn’t, or couldn’t, do bavk home.
To the Japan Festival in Amstelveen yesterday. I would have loved to stay longer but it was so hot, and so busy. Last year it was 35c on the same day 🥵
This is the best I came away with.
Some light reading for the holidays!
This is one of my favourite photographs.
Taken by Robert Adams, it exemplifies his masterful black-and-white photography, which over the past forty years has chronicled the changing landscapes of the American West. His images, often sparse or entirely absent of people, nonetheless speak volumes about human presence—revealing it through littered roadsides, razed forests, and unfinished homes.
A quiet tension runs through Adams’s work: the stark contrast between the beauty of natural light and land as captured by his lens, and the visible scars left by human interference.
His photographs subtly undermine the romanticised myth of Manifest Destiny, exposing its emptiness. They offer a quiet but powerful critique of the enduring belief that the American West is an inexhaustible resource, free to be claimed and consumed.
Another one from my walk-about in Uilenstede. Very much enjoying the new Nikon Zf!
Getting my Henry Wessel on 📸
I’ve had this idea for a project for some time now, a project about Amstelveen, the town in which I have lived since moving from Ireland. It’s not a desperately nice town, it doesn’t have the amazing architecture of it’s big neighbour, Amsterdam. It’s one of those towns that by sheer luck of location has been subsumed into Amsterdam, with house prices to match. It’s fine though - we live in a nice part of town, far to the south where the houses end and the miles of Polder being and stretch as far as the eye can see. It has a lot of diverse neighbourhoods, most built since the 50s, that have grown up alongside the Beneluxbaan, the road that takes you north to Amsterdam, or south to the airport.
One of those is Uilenstede, where I’ve never really been before. You pass it on your way to somewhere else. But yesterday I had to go there to drop off a UPS parcel and noticed that for a photographer like me, who likes his urban misery served local, there were a lot of good photos to be had. Or taken. So this afternoon I took a drive back in 28c temperatures.
It’s essentially a big residential campus for the Vrije Universiteit a bit further up the road, interspersed with offices, car parks, a squatters camp, and some cheap hotels. And for a Sunday it was very quiet, not too many people around, so for an anxious photographer like me, it was great to be able to just go around taking pictures without drawing too much attention to myself. I’ll post a few in a collection later on, but it was a nice afternoon, and the Nikon Zf is a fun camera to use. Not too sure about the SOOC shots, I just can’t quite get that right. But no matter, I always edit the RAW files, I never bother with JPG’s.
Some photos from Uilenstede, a neighborhood here in Amstelveen. Mainly office blocks and student accommodation, there are now also cheap hotels around making for a strange mix of people and vibes.
Taken with the Nikon Zf, a simply fabulous camera.
6/22/25
A few more images from my trip to NDSM last week. I love the way that despite all the construction work going on, nature still finds a way to blossom.
6/21/25
I bought a new camera last week, a Nikon Zf.
After fifteen years of shooting with Fuji cameras, from an X10, to an X-T10, an X-T20, an X-T2, and finally an X-Pro3, I just fancied a change. From APSC to full-frame. It’s been tremendous fun so far, even if the menu system on the Zf takes a bit of getting uses to, as does the sheer heft of it. It’s quite a big camera, and a quite a bit heavier than the X-Pro3.
But I am happy with the first results - I took it down to NDSM, an old shipyard turned into a trendy location for artist (the national graffiti museum is also there).
I can never understand why I still get new followers even though I haven’t posted anything on Instagram since April. Twelve this week alone. I mean, thanks and all that, but yeah. Don’t expect too much from me.
Some images from our trip to Austria last year, that I’ve just gotten around to editing :-)
Looking forward to the weekend. Nothing special going on, it’s just not work 😝
Sometimes I wonder if I have any talent for photography at all. After yesterday’s walk around the marathon that was taking place in the town, going in with a plan (“a documentary look at a marathon”) and coming back with two SD cards of crap images, I can’t help wondering if photography is for me…
I took a picture.
With everyone out, or at work, or asleep I went out for a short walk around the polder behind the house. I didn’t bother taking the camera, instead relying on the mobile phone. Listening to The Photowalk, a brilliant podcast about, well, photography…
Today, I have mostly been listening 🎵 to **Slowdive ** and The House of Love. Yeah, it’s been one of those days
Still trying out this micro blog thing, and photos in particular. Any good photography-themed people to follow out there? I’m on Insta and have my own blog (check out the ‘About’ page for details. Or not, also possible 😉).
This was in Galway a few years back. Likes the blue, so .. {snap}
Up early this morning. I don’t do lie ins - any longer than about six hours in bed and my back is destroyed. So, up early with the birds. Coffee on, radio on, heating on, time for breakfast. While I wait I’m continuing my trawl through Lightroom in an effort to put some order into it all.
Ignore this, I’m just experimenting with photo uploads. This one was taken at Downpatrick Head in Co. Mayo, Ireland.
