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South Bar & Grill in Sandyford in Dublin was part of the Town Bar & Grill group back in the day. Things change. Then it opened up as Pinots last year, quite an ambitious place, big floor area, big operation. And I pitched them for photography which they were delighted to avail of and I …

I missed Mothers’ Day again, didn’t I? Cocoa Atelier on Drury Street in Dublin makes the fine chocolate and edible rose petal chocolates. Rose petal tastes about as odd as odd goes and that’s why I love it.

Two covers six days apart. Day and Night magazine – free with the Irish Independent, and The Dubliner magazine – now free with the Evening Herald. So actor Robert Sheehan cuts a fine figure and sits happily on any cover with cheekbones like that. His new flick Killing Bono is obviously, and quite possibly deservedly …

Doing lighting tests on yourself is excruciatingly embarrassing when someone walks in and just sees you with a load of photo gear taking pictures of yourself in a hotel.

I worked with the uber talented and mischievous Brian Coldrick in my tenure at Totally Dublin. Much to my delight and little Enda’s caught his new Eurospar ad on the tellybox over the w’end. Fab stuff, love the detail – as that’s where God is apparently – dogs running away with the butcher’s sausages.

This is turning out to be a very distracting editing process… Going through the rather wonderfully delicious shoot from last week and while I’m trying to make rather rudimentary decisions in post-production, there’s small drool puddle forming on my desk.

Would you believe me if i told you this was an accountant’s seminar? Neither would I, but I suppose it wasn’t what I would have expected at an accountant’s seminar

So, we had to put the Bahamian odyssey on hold and make do with Fairview. The two upstarts Stephen and John from Archipelago were looking for something quite different for their press launch shots, so I managed to convince them to hang out in the cold. The clue is in the name, and they aren’t …

insert gratuitous self portrait here… So just trying out some new techniques for a shoot scheduled for Monday evening. Been really diggin the LightPaint Tumblr crew (which is down, so no links right now). Anyways I managed to convince the two gents from Archipelago to let me do something a bit more creative for their …