Pauline Christies photographs capture aspects of light and colour that last for seconds. She is in awe of our vast skies.

The ‘Long Clouds over the Reeks’ look like great ships floating on a huge ocean with Irelands highest mountains making a pimple impression on the landscape.

‘Angel Light, Inch’ is a scene illuminated from heaven. Where else could that light be coming from? And it so effectively blends sky, mountain and sea. Person and dog give scale to the vast scene.

‘Red Sky over Killarney’ marks a dramatic close to the day. What stories could that day tell? As numerous and varied as the cloud and shade in the sky and the trees and mountains silhouetted along the skyline?

These huge panoramas of endless variation are so vast you would imagine that our eyes would have difficulty seeing the landscape. And yet so often we see only the land - as if there was no sky. How can that be?

But skies are far from Christies only fascination. She finds light and colour in a whole range of subjects.

The relentless power of the tide in ‘Waves, Clogher’ is brought vividly to life in the evening light that gives a steely silver cloak to the sea and highlights the spray in a golden hue.

The calm evoked by endless blue in lake and sky creates an infinite peace in ‘Winter Sun at the Lakes’. This is emphasised by the boat on the still water in the middle of the picture. The Scots Pine gives depth to the huge scene. Shadow stresses the ruggedness of the rocky shore and bright sun focuses the steely snow capped peaks.

Christie generally portrays an ageless landscape. The domestic animal closest to that is reflected in ‘Horses, Killarney’.

‘Boathouse, Killarney’ is a world at ease with itself. Calm water reflecting the colour of door and roof. Boats waiting at waters edge. Green conifer and bear deciduous tree motionless in the winter sunshine.

The intricate detail of early Spring in ‘Ferns Sepia’ highlighted by sunshine against a dark background.

Pauline Christie is a landscape photographer who has been based in Kerry since 2003.

 After graduating in graphic design and photography from the College of Marketing and Design, Dublin Pauline worked in graphic design for a number of years.

She also painted and had a very successful exhibition in Dungarvan in 2005.

But perhaps following the influence of her father, Pat Langan - a photographer with the Irish Times until his retirement - her real interest has always been in photography.

The natural beauty of Kerry has inspired her to do full-time landscape photography.

- Frank Lewis