Squashed in on St Patrick’s Day.
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Children look out of an upstairs window in Merchants Quay shopping centre. When I took this shot I didn’t even see them!
I was concentrating on the kids in the foreground with their flags. I think they frame the street sign rather nicely and ties in with the name of the day too.
Check out some great photos of Inchigeela from the 1960’s on textlad’s set. Thanks Katie, they’re wonderful!
This reminds me of someone at Mallow Camera Club who showed a number of slides he had bought or got off a priest who had served on a mission in South America. The images were from decades ago and the priest was dead and buried by now. Pictures were still as good as ever, but they’re languishing in a slide box now. I’d love to see them uploaded to Flickr and made public.
Tags: Architecture, Candid, Canon 20D, children, Cork Photos, flags, Irish photos, irishblogs, kids, Look up, People, Photos, Sigma 18-200, St Patrick's Street, St. Patrick's Day, St. Patrick's Day 2008, Street, UrbanIf you’re going to sit up on a high wall wearing a funny hat you could at least look happy that you have a great position to see the St Patrick’s Day Parade. No, I didn’t see this fella smile at all.
A year before the wall was taken over by photographers but alas, the excellent vantage point was wasted this year.
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Tags: Candid, Canon 20D, children, Cork, Cork Photos, girls, Ireland, Irish photos, irishblogs, Look up, People, Sigma 18-200, St Patrick's Street, St. Patrick's Day, St. Patrick's Day 2008, Street, tricolour, UrbanA flavour of the St Patrick’s Day festivities and people who attended the Parade in Cork yesterday.
Some of the Special Olympics Team took part in the parade and as I said yesterday, it was strange to see only them on the street with nobody else about. Everyone cheered them on however and clapped as they passed! The next group took at least 5 minutes to appear leaving me to wonder if the parade had already finished.
You normally don’t see Irish people waving flags about unless it’s a special occasion. St. Patrick’s Day is one of those times when the the Irish Tricolour comes out!
If there’s a buck to be made ..
Crowds lined Patrick’s Street in Cork to watch the Parade. It was crazy! To get any sort of shot I had to either hold my camera in the air and shoot blind or grab quick shots with the zoom from between the bobbing heads of those in front of me. If you were in any way uncomfortable with crowds then it wasn’t the place for you.
More tomorrow and for a few days probably.
Tags: Candid, Canon 20D, Cork, Cork Photos, Ireland, Irish photos, irishblogs, Panna, People, Photos, Sigma 18-200, St Patrick's Street, St. Patrick's Day, St. Patrick's Day 2008, Street, UrbanA young girls waves her Irish flag in the air after spotting part of the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Cork approaching.
I shot several decent shots but it’s late and I’m tired. I was quite disappointed with the parade and left after half an hour. Like previous years there were huge gaps between some of the groups partaking in the parade.
It was strange to see the Special Olympics group striding up Patrick’s Street all alone with no other group in sight. They proudly showed off their medals and the crowd cheered and clapped for them. I’ll have a photo of them up here later in the week.
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You can read more about the church and mass times at the The Lough Parish page on the Diocese website.
Tags: Architecture, Canon 10-22, Canon 20D, church, Cork, Cork Photos, corkphotowalk, decoration, Flowers, Ireland, Irish photos, irishblogs, Look up, Lough, Photos, red-brick, The Lough, UrbanThis was shot from a precarious position. I jumped up on one of the concrete posts dotted around the pond and very carefully snapped a couple of shots. I just about managed to balance there for a few minutes! See the two black swans everyone else was shooting?
From left to right: Donal, Ryan, Kevin, Katie and Sean spotted me and started shooting the biggest birdbrain there ..
Tags: Birds, black swans, Candid, Canon 10-22, Canon 20D, Cork, Cork Photos, corkphotowalk, Ireland, Irish photos, irishblogs, Lough, People, Photos, photowalking, swans, The Lough, Urban, WaterI was setting up a shot by placing that wheel cap leaning on the bus shelter when these two teenagers ran across the road carrying a football goal between them!
Anyway, there’s the Murphy’s stout advert I wanted to shoot. I wonder if they advertise anywhere else in the country?
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Too tempting. I had to chase after them and encourage them to fly a little. Some of them need the exercise!
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