The reason I treated myself to a new camera in 2011 was a request to do the photography at a friend's wedding, held in a Big House in the west of Ireland one sunny day. It had everything - people, an Irish wolfhound, donkeys, marauding children and late night spontaneous music sessions. I won't bore you with pictures of people you don't know but the occasional thing caught my eye without being entirely dependent on you having a relationship with the subjects. I don't usually do portraits and I don't like dogs: most of my people shots are taken at distance, unawares because poses – unless utterly stylised – remove all the personality. Still, some of these work OK.
Piercing blue eyes are a feature of Kerry people
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| The enormous, placid wolfhound |
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| Donkey |
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| Despite hating smoking, smokers always make good subjects |
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| Children and animals…sickeningly sentimental |
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| More sickening sentiment |
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