The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) is the world’s oldest futures and options exchange. It was established in 1848 and since 1930 has operated out of this building on 141 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago according to this Wikipedia page. Possible Batman “The Dark Knight” spoilers ahead. Don’t read on if you’re going to watch the [...]
2008Thu31Jul
Chicago Board of Trade
Filed in Architecture, Canon 18-55, Canon 20D, Chicago, Look up, Photography, Photos, United States, Urban
2008Thu31Jul
The Thieving Duck Photoshoot
Filed in Canon 18-55, Canon 20D, Chicago, Everything, People, Photography, United States, UrbanMany moons ago I posted the infamous Thieving Duck that went viral when someone robbed it, added a funny story and emailed it around. Apparently it’s been seen all over the world which is kinda cool. It even made it to snopes.com too! Anyway, I can finally reveal a few more shots from that photoshoot [...]
2008Wed30Jul
Looking for a parking space
Filed in Architecture, Canon 10-22, Canon 20D, Cork, Grand Parade, Ireland, Look up, Photography, Photos, Signs, Street, UrbanYou’re in town and desperately looking for a parking place. Where do you go? All the on-street parking has either been removed because of road works or taken by everyone who went shopping at 9am. Just look up. There’s a multi storey carpark somewhere near you. Probably. Front of the car park on The Grand [...]
2008Tue29Jul
Western Star Cork
Filed in Architecture, Canon 20D, Cork, Ireland, Photography, Photos, Sigma 18-200, Signs, Urban, Vehicles, Western RoadThe Western Star in Cork was a favourite haunt of UCC students for many a year but now it looks like it’ll be demolished! Looks like development has been on the cards for quite a while: Permission was granted to Tom O’Riordan carry out development namely, permission for part demolition of existing public house and [...]
2008Mon28Jul
Ryanair’s bumpy landing
Filed in Canon 20D, Cork, Ireland, Look up, Photography, Photos, Sigma 18-200, Sky, VehiclesWill Ryanair face a bumpy landing this year? Shots taken at Cork Airport of a Ryanair flight coming in to land. There are two small cottages just down the road from where I stood with children playing in the garden of one. I guess you get used to the engine whine after a while.
I’m surprised I haven’t blogged about The GIMP FX Foundary before. It’s a huge collection of GIMP plugins that have been updated to work with the latest GIMP. All the plugins were already available in the GIMP Plugin registry or elsewhere but not all of them survived the changes to Scheme in the latest versions [...]
2008Sun27Jul
Pobal ar Aire
Filed in Bantry, Black and White, Canon 10-22, Canon 20D, Cork, Ireland, Photography, Photos, Street, UrbanPobal ar Aire. Community on Alert. This is (was?) a scheme designed to help neighbourhoods help themselves by volunteering to keep an eye out for trouble makers or lawlessness. The local police are then informed. It seems to work well, these signs are dotted all around the country, but in Bantry it looks like they’re [...]
2008Sat26Jul
The shop is closed Today
Filed in Black and White, Canon 10-22, Canon 20D, Cork, English Market, Ireland, Photography, Photos, UrbanA corner shop in the English Market has a simple but effective way of shutting up shop for the day. Put a broom stick across the entrance! The English Market is completely roofed over and locked tight at night so I guess traders feel reasonably safe with minimal security precautions. That’s what’s wonderful about the [...]
2008Fri25Jul
A child’s bloody nightmare
Filed in Canon 10-22, Canon 20D, Cork, Ireland, Photography, Photos, Street, UrbanA page from a child’s “colour in the picture” book provides a stark subject for this photo. Is that red blood on the wheels of that car? Spotted on the ground somewhere in Cork City.
2008Thu24Jul
Let’s celebrate with a few drinks! Hic!
Filed in Bantry, Black and White, Canon 10-22, Canon 20D, Cork, Ireland, Photography, Photos, UrbanBoth Phil and Geraldine listed this blog in their “Arte y Pico” award list which gave me a warm glow because (other than the River Lee photos earlier in the week) comments have been far and few between here for quite a while. Unfortunately I’m going to break the chain and not link to the [...]
