Landscape and Nature Photography
I live in Northern Ireland’s Mid Ulster region, and the majority of the photos on this site were taken there, with the exception of a few places further away, such as Belfast, Derry, and Portrush. So, there is nothing fancy or exotic here! 🙂
My photography hobby began in the summer of 2003, when I purchased a Canon PowerShot A70. It was my second digital camera, but it was the first ‘proper’ camera that could take excellent pictures at the time, with 3.2 megapixels, enough to print anything up to A4-sized photo paper (which I rarely do!). Its battery life with four AA batteries was excellent if I used rechargeable batteries.
In early 2001, I bought my first digital camera, a Samsung Digimax 800K, and my first computer from PC World. The camera had an 800K resolution (0.8 megapixels) of 1024×768 pixels, which was larger than most 800×600 monitors at the time. Its image quality was poor even in good lighting, and it drained two AA batteries as soon as you filled the memory card with only 11 images, from what I recall, on a 2 MB SmartMedia memory card, sometimes even before that, so I had to bring an extra set of AA batteries. It was a battle to preserve as much battery life as possible. I have never seen a device like this Samsung camera draining two AA batteries in a matter of minutes before!
Digital camera technology was in its infancy in the early 2000s, but to be fair, I bought a Samsung Digimax 800K for £100ish, which was basically at the bottom end of the camera range!
I am more interested in capturing colours, lighting, and composition. I enjoy the slower, simpler, less cluttered aspects of life, which are frequently overlooked in today’s fast-paced world. However, most of the time, I simply document nature, places, etc., as well as everyday life and the colourful climate we have here in Northern Ireland.
I could showcase my photos on Instagram or Facebook, which I do on occasion, but the problem with these platforms is that they cannot be organised into categories, months, years, seasons, and so on, so this is where my photography website comes in, and I hope it will help me better organise/categorise my photos! Furthermore, Instagram and Facebook have set image ratios that occasionally crop portions of my photos.
I hope you enjoy my landscape and nature photography here. And sometimes urban, although I’m starting with them first!