Balloons in Cork
Posted on 10 March 2010 | 1 response
A balloon seller on Daunt Square in September 2009, during one of our photowalks. A shopper takes her ease in the foreground.
Unhappy in Dublin
Posted on 3 March 2010 | 3 responses
Grim faced people walking along O’Connell Street in Dublin a month ago.
River Island Skateboarder
Posted on 26 February 2010 | 14 responses
River Island used one of my photos on a tshirt. Without telling me. I never got around to calling them out on it at the time and the tshirt has since disappeared from their clothing range but I want to post this anyway.
The first I knew that a tshirt had a photo of mine on it was when Dan, the skateboarder in the photo, contacted me and asked why a member of Irish band “The Script” was wearing a tshirt with his image on it. The band were interviewed on RTE and the interview ended up on Youtube where he saw it. I tried to get in touch with the band without any success.
Some time after, Dan got in touch again. He had spotted that River Island were selling the tshirt with my photo! At the time he was very upset and angry, and so was I. Unfortunately I was in Canada at the time and didn’t follow up with River Island when I got back.
It boggles the mind that such a large clothing chain would use an image without permission. It really does. It makes me wonder how often other multi-national companies do it.
(Thanks Alan for encouraging me to post about this!)
False dawn of the city
Posted on 23 February 2010 | 1 response
As you may have already guessed, that’s not the dawn. It’s the lights of Cork City (and Blarney) shining and into the sky in a long exposure shot I made last August.
I had meant to mention this sooner but 2 weeks ago I was shocked to hear about the death of Debbie Metrustry (@debbiemet), a wonderful person I had the pleasure of conversing with by tweet and by email over the course of the last year or so. She even won a print on this blog last year, but between this and that I never got around to sending it to her. I hope I can get in touch with her family at some stage and offer it to them instead.
Debbie’s blog on WordPress.com is still there and will be as long as the service is there (which is forever, right?), I’ve seen to that.
If you knew Debbie you might like to read the reaction from other people who knew her.
- Sabrina Dent
- Peter Donegan
- Phil O’Kane
- Grannymar
- There was a BTW in honour of Debbie on the 16th.
RIP Debbie.
It’s wheely grass
Posted on 19 February 2010 | 1 response
One of the wheels of a boat trailer in Baltimore, County Cork.
All wrapped up
Posted on 14 February 2010 | No responses
Petrol pumps sit idle at the same derelict station I shot this flo gas photo.
One of my photos will be auctioned off today as part of Bid For Haiti in the Metropole Hotel in Cork. Paul O’Mahony is organising it but my brother Donal is helping to get prints together.
Check out #bidforhaiti on Twitter!
Reach For The Sky
Posted on 10 February 2010 | No responses
Bare trees reach for the sky by the Atlantic Pond and Marina in Blackrock, Cork.
Shot in April 2008.
woof woof woof woof woof woof woof woof woof….
The Jedward Angel
Posted on 6 February 2010 | No responses
Bishop Lucey Park in Cork City was the location of a wonderful display of angel statues. They were decorated in all sorts of ways and even had one dedicated to Jedward!
Adam had a great time running around them, and had loads of fun playing with another boy named Nathaniel. They went crazy chasing around and screaming as loud as they could at the pigeons who had an unexpected bout of exercise!
Five Arches
Posted on 1 February 2010 | 2 responses
The bridge spanning the river outside Abbeystrowry Cemetery near Skibereen in County Cork.
My wife was driving, I was able to enjoy the scenery! 
Gates of the Dead
Posted on 28 January 2010 | 1 response
The roofed gates of Abbeystrowry Cemetery near Skibereen in County Cork.