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Black and white photography has been around for years but it continues to be popular. I love black and white pictures because the color doesn’t distract from the light, shape and texture of the subject.
15 March 2010 - 1964 Morris Minor
A Morris Minor, registered in 1964, parked in Bantry town in County Cork. Pictured in September 2008 while on holiday there.
After reading the Wikipedia page on the car this is probably a Minor 1000.
03 March 2010 - Unhappy in Dublin
Grim faced people walking along O’Connell Street in Dublin a month ago.
26 February 2010 - River Island Skateboarder
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!)
24 January 2010 - Abbeystrowry Cemetery
Abbeystrowry Cemetery is located near Skibereen in County Cork. It is the site of some of the mass graves used in the area during the famine around 1845.
I didn’t know, or had forgotten there was a famine in 1740/1741 when 400,000 people died. That many people died on this little island of ours in such a short time? The mind boggles.
07 January 2010 - Frosty morning in Blarney
Another frosty morning in Blarney, County Cork. I’m glad I work from home. The roads are deadly now. Snow fell in Dublin yesterday and the city practically came to a stand still. It hasn’t snowed in Blarney yet but the roads have been bad. We had a Christmas Day adventure when the car didn’t make it up the hill to our house. We had to leave it on the main road.
Two days ago I did a handbrake turn on the ice to do a turnabout. Wheels were turned right, hand brake was still partially on (by accident!) and when I pressed the accelerator the back wheels stayed in place while the car rotated in place. Thumbs up for front wheel drive cars!
Here in Ireland we’re not prepared for this type of weather going on for so long. Must be almost a month now. So, next year councils, buy boats and dingies for the floods in November, and stockpile salt and grit for the ice and snow in December and January. Please.
04 January 2010 - An Bhlarna
The sign points the way to Blarney or Blarna in Irish. If you’re interested, that’s pronounced “blawrnah”
“Secrets”, an adult store, occupies the building at the centre of this photo.
31 December 2009 - The half finished Opera Lane
The new Opera Lane in Cork City separates the gleaming buildings of the new development that was built right in the heart of the city and completed this year. Back in July it was a rugged dirty construction site, and this photo is a fitting end to 2009, and the Noughties. Not much construction work going on anywhere in Ireland now. Just lots of debt.
I’ll post a photo tomorrow, but I’ll be posting every 3 days after that to give myself a little more free time. This blog gets a third of the traffic of Holy Shmoly! yet takes far more time to update. Traffic isn’t the reason why you should blog, but a photoblog is a very public display of creative work by it’s owner. Without feedback from new visitors it’s hard to maintain an enthusiasm for it. The unfortunate thing is that it’s very difficult to attract visitors to a site like this because of the minimal amount of text for search engines to index.
I know myself it’s easy to scan photoblogs in a feedreader. One quick look, and on to the next one. I’m guilty of that myself!
To end on a high note, I’ll have more time to prepare posts, and polish the photos I upload so I hope both are even better next year!
Happy New Year!
29 December 2009 - The chains that bind
A disused chain lies forgotten on the ground near the lighthouse on Mizen Head, County Cork.
27 December 2009 - More Naked
Look up and see naked branches cover the sky with their evil and treacherous appendages, and then walk straight into some dog sh*t that an uncaring owner neglected to clean up.
16 December 2009 - Strong Shadows
Strong shadows in exceptionally bright sunlight in May 2008 in Blarney.