Wildlife- Ireland
"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children"
Ancient Indian Proverb
" We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from the universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilisation surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompletenesss, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move more finished and complete, gifted with extensions of senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethern, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth."
Henry Beston. The Outermost House, 1928
All of my images are of animals in their natural, wildlife environment. There are no images of captive, domestic or Zoo animals.
Ancient Indian Proverb
" We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from the universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilisation surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompletenesss, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move more finished and complete, gifted with extensions of senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethern, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth."
Henry Beston. The Outermost House, 1928
All of my images are of animals in their natural, wildlife environment. There are no images of captive, domestic or Zoo animals.
Puffin portrait

Puffin in the evening light

Puffin silhouette

Puffin with sandeels, Saltees

Feed for the young

Puffin dreams

Puffin on the Saltee Islands

Just chillin'

Portrait in the rain

Snuggled in the grass

Sunset blaze

Resting Gannet

Gannet couple

The call

Simplicity

Three's a crowd

In the clouds

The greeting

The return

Always watching

Gathering nesting material

Too close!

The couple

Bills

Tenderness

Amongst the crowd

Feather check

Guillimot with catch

Razorbill couple

Razorbill with sandeels

Razorbills at sunset

Razorbill with catch

Sunset reunion

Oyster catcher

Shag at sunset!

Rock pipit with catch

Rut

Fox in the nettles

Urban fox cub

Sleeping duck

Fallow deer
