Can you ever tire of photographing a river? I now have a whole folder of images from the Lower Bann, that majestic river that flows from Lough Neagh out into the Atlantic Ocean at Coleraine.

Many of them are made from the western side of the river, accessed by The Fisherman’s Walk, and on those occasions I have looked across the Bann to a small jetty, about half a mile or so upriver, on the other bank.

On Monday, 5th May 2025,Janette and me (and Lottie the sausage dog) walked down to that jetty through the beautiful, bluebell covered Portglenone Forest, and I got a view from ‘The Other Side.’  

Photographed with the Fujifilm X-T5 camera, on Acros film simulation mode, with red filter, – giving that pleasing cloud effect in the blue sunlit sky.

What do you think?  Too much river? Anyway, here’s some more images from the forest…