Where is Patrick?

Hi everyone. If you follow me on RSS or visit my site from time to time you’ll have noticed that I haven’t posted any blog posts in quite some time (sorry!). I just wanted to pop my head above the water to explain why. I haven’t fallen out of love with photography, the main reason is that my wife had a baby girl in September. And as anyone who has children knows they’re very time consuming! Kate is almost 5 months young now, she’s a smiling, happy toddler. So we now have 3 children and are kept very busy. This is a photo from when Kate was 7 weeks young:

I’m not sure if Instagram is a reason that I’m posting less here but it could be. I only post photos from my smart phone to Instagram whereas the vast majority of photos on photoblog.ie would be taken with my Dslr or compact camera but it’s an outlet for me to ‘publish’ photos & I tend to get more comments on it compared to on photoblog.ie. I find it’s so quick and easy to post a photo on Instgram compared to posting a photo on a website. As I mentioned in a previous blog post you can find me at https://instagram.com/photoblog.ie/. I’ve had an account for a while but it was ‘hibernating’. I’ll be posting similar photos to what I post here- abstract, abstract and more abstract. Oh, and some other stuff too- patterns, everyday smiley faces and more. Everything that I post on Instagram is taken from my smartphone, if I love an Instagram photo I might post it here too.