Reluctant Irishman’s Guide.
Foreword:
As often happens when you enter your fifties you start to consider your life and what you would like to achieve on the final run in. I have always been fascinated by landscapes and scenery and have found peace when I am lost somewhere in the wilderness.
I took up photography over the last ten years to capture the various scenes and also the peace I have experienced when immersed in the surroundings of a location.
I regard myself as an amateur photographer. I have no desire to become an expert. I have the basic skills and I have worked with editing software at a basic level, but I have captured some thought provoking scenes, which have given some pleasure to me and those around me.
I have spent some time with experienced photographers and the skill I really admire and respect the most is how they immediately see a picture and identify the best composition.
Anyway that is how this project developed and I have now decided that my adventures should be documented and will hopefully bring some information and joy to those who have similar interests.
Why the Reluctant Irish Man? I am an Irishman and proud of our little country. I have followed the Irish Soccer Team to many destinations and to two World Cups.
I however hold a British passport as I was born in Liverpool, England when my parents lived there for a short period in the sixties.
The application for the British passport was a matter of expediency when aged twenty-one. I had to obtain a passport quickly for my first foreign holiday. The British Embassy in Dublin could guarantee a quick turnaround.
Over the years I never got around to applying for an Irish passport and a friend of mine referred to me a number of years ago as the “Reluctant Irishman”.
I hope you enjoy the details of my adventures which will be accompanied by my best photographs from these travels.
During 2017 I purchased a VW Transporter and have had it converted to a Camper Van to encourage more travel with camera and drone.
Enjoy and your comments would be appreciated.
I will apply for my Irish passport soon!!