New Year, new name…
Salty Dog Picture Library is born… After several years I’ve decided to re-brand my picture library, from now on it will be known as Salty Dog Picture Library or www.saltydogpictures.com Why Salty dog? it’s the product of a thought shower (apparently it’s illegal to say brain storm in the uk, seriously google it) with my…
They call me Willy Wonka…
Okay, they don’t, but I thought it was a good title for a blog. It’s probably not a great idea to be photographing chocolate when your wife has you on a health kick! But I’m man enough to deal with the smell of melting chocolate. I had a few days when I wasn’t working for…
We are at the centre of the golf universe…
Apparently Northern Ireland is now the centre of the universe… as far as the golf world is concerned, a world superpower! Three major golf Championships in 13 months, that’s some going for a country with one and a half million people. The last time a golfer from Northern Ireland won a golfing major was Fred…
Opps…
Like most photographers when I go to a wedding it’s normally to take the official pictures. This time I was going to be a guest at my cousins wedding, the first time in about 40 years! The last time I was a wedding guest I was about four. There was one other time on New…
Who doesn’t like fresh food?
I was walking through St Georges market in Belfast, surrounded by nothing but people and food. Smells were everywhere; freshly baked breads, earthy smells from the freshly dug vegetables, the smell of the sea from the sea food caught hours earlier by the fishermen from Portavogie. Some of it still moving! The place was full…
Yes it’s 1st April…
and no it’s not an April fool’s joke! That’s right, it’s a blog update! I’m embarrassed to say it’s something approaching 170 days since my last blog update, but there is a good reason….okay it’s not a great reason. I have been migrating The Stock Library to a new hosting company – yep that’s all…
Where it all began…
Modern man that is. Without cutting and pasting the entire Wikipedia we are all reported to have evolved from Africa, many moons ago. For me, there is something magical about Africa, from the lush plantations in Tanzania in the wet season to the dry arid desert in Namibia not to mention the creatures that call…
Rainy Season…
It’s summer here in Northern Ireland, in April all the talk was of a long hot summer, lots of BBQs where planned, sunblock was purchased and road trips in the offing. May and June showed a lot of promise, yep, it was going to a great long hot summer. I managed to get out and…
