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It seems to happen to most people, and I am as guilty as anybody else; when you live somewhere you tend to take it for granted. There are New Yorkers who have never visited the Statue of Liberty, Egyptians who see the Pyramids nothing more than a pain in the ass or a way of making a quick buck, and here is an Englishman living in Ireland bemoaning the constant rain and shear plain boringness of the sights and landscapes of the land I live in.
I find that while home in Ireland, I find it hard to be inspired photographically, the whole ‘been there, done that’ mindset makes its hard to see in the same way that a visiting tourist would. Those quaint, cramped narrow streets that the visitors find so endearing, are instead scratched paintwork, broken wing mirrors, and little to no parking spaces. The lovely emerald green of the Emerald Isle is a by product of the seemingly constant rainfall we have to endure.
In reality this is a very harsh review of Ireland as Ireland has some fantastic scenery; We have fabulously rugged mountains, lonesome islands, fantastic beaches with great (but cold) surfing, those narrow streets and quaint fishing villages. We have cities with character and we have pubs with craic. And for brooding moody photographs the low dark clouds of Ireland are perfect.