Early morning, Venice

St. Mark's Square, Venice, captured just after sunrise on a misty May morning, this is one of the few times of day when this area is free of tourists and you can feel the history in the buildings around you.

Clear Atlantic Air

A hot summer day in The Burren, Co. Clare, Ireland. Memories of crystal clear air, vibrant green grass, myriad wild flowers blooming between the limestone paving, sun sparkling off the Atlantic and the scattering of the Aran Islands, low mounds rising out of the blue green waters.

Italian Days

An image captured in a hotel room in Tuscany, I just loved the way the light poured through the window .

Timeless

The Poulnabrone Dolmen, the Burren, Co. Clare, Ireland. These stones of this burial chamber are
reckoned to have stood here for over 5000 years withstanding the elements that come straight off the Atlantic in this beautiful wild area in the west of Ireland.

Step back in time 2

Further along the same street in Lucca was this little jewellery shop.

Step back in time

This Coffee bar in Lucca, Italy is a fabulous remnant of a bygone era with its polished wooden frontage.

Jewelled Web

The delicate tracery of a spider's web in ultra close up. This was captured early one morning in the garden, I love the way the dew has formed tiny drops along the strands of the web, minute strings of diamonds sparkling in the light.

Ethereal Trees

The pattern of light and shade on these lichen covered trees just took my fancy as I walked through St Anne's Park in Dublin. The sunlight was bouncing off the white path below the trees, flooding the shadow with light.

Winter Mist and Frost

A scene from near where I live, a beautiful cold and frosty December day. The fields were covered with sparkling white frost and the late afternoon sun shone gently through the mist.

Reflections

Reflections in the River Liffey, Dublin, Ireland. A still, grey day, the buildings were swaying gently in the water, their colours muted in the soft light.

Full Moon

I was waiting for the light to fade, to capture some floodlit buildings. Whilst I waited this full moon rose out of the orange purple haze, the birds just flew into place.

Shadows

Something about the light coming through these windows appealed to me, the large empty room, the solitary chair and the shadows on the floor.

Welcome to the stolen moment

This blog is for images of mine which do not fit into any particular category. They are just pictures I have taken during my wanderings because the subject appealed to me at the time. This is a picture taken on a beautiful spring day in Sefton Park, Liverpool. As a colour image it is quite ordinary but as a black and white picture it seems to come alive.