All Grown Up.

This is my gorgeous goddaughter Lucy, who was 18 last week, on her birthday. We all went out to dinner to celebrate and the very next morning she jetted off to Guadalajara for eight weeks. And I remember her in nappies as if it was only yesterday.....

Jimmy's Garden Party

After Fionnuala & Donncha's wedding in Marlfield House, we popped down the road to Ferrycarrig where it was my Uncle Jimmy's 60th birthday. My last visit was in 1976so things had changed quite a bit since then. Jimmy is a fine horticulturalist, so between the showers on Saturday evening I had a little stroll around his beautiful garden, before quietly celebrating the big birthday.

In gardens, I like to handhold the camera, get in close, and focus on details with a shallow depth of field - all things the textbooks on plant/macro photography tell you not to do.