These time lapse sequences were shot while I was photographing in various counties, usually when I was waiting for the weather to change, having breakfast, trying to decide where to go next. That sort of thing. They have become a sort of video diary of the trip. They usually span about an hour of real time, though some are longer.

Looking roughly northwest from Ben Gorm over Doo Lough and toward Mweelrea, Connaught's highest mountain. I stopped climbing just below the cloud layer (since it's hard to take good photos in dense fog!) and huddled in the shelter of some boulders, ate chocolate, watched the wind blow down the valley and waited for the cloud to lift.

This time lapse sequence was taken at dusk while I was shooting in Co. Leitrim. I had driven up a long, narrow and very rutted boreen that wound its way into the hills to reconnoitre possible locations for the next day. It was a long way back to the nearest house and I'd come close to getting the car stuck a few times, so when I found somewhere wide enough to turn around, I stopped and watched the light die in the sky, before retreating back to civilisation.

While shooting in Limerick I decided to hike up to Galtee Mór, in the Galtee Mountains range. I started before dawn, thinking I could be comfortably up and down this small range by mid-afternoon. But what with the amazing colours, and stopping every ten minutes to set up the tripod, by early afternoon I was only halfway along the ridge and it gets dark early in mid-winter in Ireland. To cut a long story short I didn't make it to the snowy summit of Galtee Mór but I did see a beautiful mountain hare up close, get caught in a snowstorm and manage to make it back down just as complete darkness closed in. I shot this time lapse while having lunch, watching the ravens play in the updrafts and the clouds rolling in and clearing.

I had spent the previous day from dawn to dusk hiking in the magnificent Glenveagh National park. I had been out from before dawn scouting and photographing, and my route had led me back to the edge of the park again. I had a late breakfast and watched the sun and shadows chase across the valley while I debated the merits of hiking up the mountainside near me.

A significant part of Ireland's electricity needs are now being met with wind power. In every county I've been in so far, there has been at least one, and more often several large wind farms. In Cavan I photographed some turbines at dusk, then decided to sleep beside one of them because I liked the sound of the 10m blades whooshing through the air overhead. And since I wasn't going anywhere I thought I'd time lapse nightfall and daybreak on the hill top. I slept well, but had to keep waking up to reset my intervalometer.

This was shot in the week the Ryan Report was released in Ireland. I parked in the grounds of the church half an hour before mass started and set up my camera directly opposite the main doors. I wanted to photograph the people arriving. It amazes me that anyone still goes to mass in Ireland, after what the Catholic Church has done in this country.