I have been away for a while now, nearly a year.
It has been a difficult time, caring for my elderly mother took time and mind space. A wonderful woman who lived a rich and varied life, leaving Japan to live in Ireland in the early 1960s. I am very lucky to have received so much from her. She passed away earlier this year and it has taken a while for me to come to terms with her departure, celebrate the richness of what she left behind and come back to my photography.
In that time one of the most memorable experiences that I had was the chance to see and photograph the murmuration of starlings in County Kilkenny in Ireland. It was a break and yet it felt like a fortuitous counterpoint to all I was feeling and quite spiritual. I will write more about these images in a subsequent post.