Delighted to finally be back to work, kicking off with the Uttlesford Business Awards last night.

Here we come a-wassailing…
Thaxted, Essex
Ye olde twelvey
Song, music, noise-making and mulled cider

I may not currently be available for assignment work but it didn’t stop me capturing a scene mid dog walk.
3 hours later, the frost was all gone

What a start to 2025 last night!For around an hour, the sky was filled with the light of the Aurora Borealis…if you were lucky enough to have clear skies, as here in West Cork.
Will there be a repeat tonight?
So far the geomagnetic activity isn’t showing signs of something happening.

Wishing peace, health and happiness for 2025 from a wet and very windy West Cork
No work assignment for me tonight. Isolating prior to himself going for surgery next week.
Starting the New Year on a knife edge!

Nothing more special than the evening walk on a beautiful still winter evening and being accompanied by the call of the curlew

Baltimore, West Cork.
The quietness today broken only by a flurry of activity for the teatime ferry to Sherkin - residents going home with poinsettias, and the ferry from Cape Clear - workmen returning to the mainland.
Meanwhile, featured in tonights Masterchef, Dede’s door was firmly closed

In the aftermath of Storm Darragh, the regular beach clean threw up fishing line, fishing nets, net repair trimmings, plastic bottles, shotgun cartridge cases. All the usual suspects.
Meanwhile, the sea was flat calm.
Blue bags supplied and collected by Cork CC Clean Coasts Initiative

Whilst Storm Darragh moves in on the British Isles, here in South West Cork, it is a little more protected from the north west winds but still the rain drives in and we have power down.

A trip down the N71 to Cork South-West, in the aftermath of the Irish Election.
Posters for the candidates can still be seen tied to poles, although some now are being removed.

Good morning Dublin!
(Note to self - give the windscreen a clean 🤦🏼‍♀️)

Hello all!
New to this platform so here is a quick and random dip into what I can get up to photographing in north Essex.
(Other locations are accessible)