Entries written in May 2006

Written May 21, 2006 in Beach, Cork, Inchadoney, Ireland, Nature, Photos

A tiny sun bleached crab on Inchadoney Beach, Co. Cork.

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We bought 2 hot dogs here and enjoyed them in the Peace Park where..

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Sausages ready to be cooked and then consumed by people like me! Yum!

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Written May 19, 2006 in Cork, Ireland, Nature, Photos, Sky, Trees, Urban

I was sitting on the ground photographing a group practising Capoeira in the Peace Park when I spotted a fly hovering right in front of me! Needless to say I tried to shoot him and this is the result!

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Written May 18, 2006 in Cork, Festivals, Ireland, People, Photos, Street, Urban

This could be Graduado Popeye, an instructor in Capoeira in Cork (I never asked, but a leaflet handed to me has his name on it). He was able to jump up and forward, twist himself around mid-air and come down facing the way he had come! He was accompanied by other students of this Brazilian martial art and performed other manoeuvres. Impressive!

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It wasn’t exactly cold, or warm either but this gentleman must have been more than a little warm wearing a big jumper like that!

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Makes a statement doesn’t he? He was great fun to watch and listen to!

Fourth shot in this series of World Book Day Photos.

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Serenading a passer by. Some women loved it, others got a fit of the giggles and some ran away!

Third shot in this series of World Book Day Photos.

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“I’m a show boy” - he certainly is!

Second shot in this series of World Book Day Photos.

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Written May 13, 2006 in Photography, Words

For the next two weeks posts will be automated. It’s not possible to future post photos to Flickr so I had to write a small shell script to email Flickr with my photo, a subject, and a description every night.
Check out “mpack” which is the heart of the script. Hopefully I’ll upload the script here when I come back and have time to explain how it works!

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