One of my images has been picked as the cover of a new book on Irish birds. Its published by HarperCollins and authored by David Cabot.

Back in 2007, I began the process of chasing FIAP acceptances, awards and the badges that go with that. For those not familiar with FIAP and the process, I will take a few words to give some context. FIAP or Federation Internationale Art Photographique to give it its full name is the UNESCO world body for photographic art.

I'm a big fan of Lightroom, particularly for it asset management features and I have built my workflow around its features. This have been working well since the early days of Lightroom and would still be working well as a complete workflow if I had stayed with Canon's camera system.

Dharmanagar is a village and Village Development Committee in Bara District in the Narayani Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2,934 persons living in 478 individual households. Its about 160km south of Kathmandu and  right on the border between Nepal and India. The village is a mainly rural village with people generating income from agriculture. Our connection with this village is Action Aid and its child sponsor program. The child were are sponsoring, Sujit live here with his familySEE DETAILS

Update: – I’ve installed a gallery manager called Envira and it seems to be extremely responsive, in addition, I have dramatically changed the menu structure for the galleries.  To check it out, please have a look  under  “My photography”. All of the Morocco and Nepal galleries are build with the new gallery manager.I have held off updating the galleries on the site as I’ve not been happy with the operation or performance of the current gallery manager – Nextgen. I have finally settled in a new gallery manager and willSEE DETAILS