Posts Tagged ‘holiday’

Checking the prisoner

Thursday, November 16th, 2006 by Donncha

“I’m so tired. They’ve had me locked up here for years. I’m in solitary confinement for my sins. I was set up I tell you! It wasn’t me!”

A looks in on a in in the solitary confinement wing. Luckily I was able to walk out immediately. Not a pleasant place.
Besides the main subject of this image, it’s the small details I like. That barely noticed on the far right grabs me by the shoulders and screams, “you don’t know the half of what I’ve seen!”

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A resident of Alcatraz

Saturday, November 11th, 2006 by Donncha

Island is now inhabited by the and I presume security staff but I think the have a better life with all the tourists around hefting lunches and sandwiches from the mainland.

Imagine the scene, me and a few of the others scrambling to get a shot of this . I had my wide angle lens fitted so I had to lean forward for the to fill the frame! It’s a sign of how tame they are that we got this shot even if he did eye me suspiciously.

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Looking onto Freedom

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006 by Donncha

A young talks on her mobile phone while looking out a barred window in , . Walking through the was quite an experience, especially as tourists like myself took and listened to the audio tour while wandering. It was easy to imagine how awful incarceration must be looking out the windows and through the of cells.

This was shot in the canteen and I rotated the image on purpose to add a little interest.

No thank you - gulp!

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S.S. Jeremiah O’Brien

Sunday, November 5th, 2006 by Donncha

The Liberty Ship S.S. Jeremiah O’Brien lies anchored at 45, Fisherman’s Wharf, . It’s visible to all the tourists boarding the ferry to and is open to the public.

I didn’t get a chance to look inside, but ssjeremiahobrien.org makes me wish I did. She was one of the ships used in D-Day 1944 and made eleven crossings of the English Channel.

The small writing on the forward gun reads, “Miss Jerry O’Brien”. That looks like a shamrock behind the young lady accompanying the signature. Is there an connection?

In June 1943 the Liberty Ship S.S. Jeremiah O’Brien slid down the ways at the New England Shipbuilding Corporation in South Portland, Maine. Shortly thereafter she entered service, operated by Grace Line for the War Shipping Administration. Named for the first American to capture a British naval vessel during the Revolutionary War, the O’Brien made seven World War II voyages, ranging from England and Northern to South America, to India, to Australia. She also made eleven crossings of the English Channel carrying personnel and supplies to the Normandy beaches in support of the D-Day invasion. After the war, she was “mothballed” and laid up in the Reserve Fleet at Suisun Bay, north of .

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California, San Francisco CA

Saturday, November 4th, 2006 by Donncha

, a in near where we were staying last August.
This was taken after a great lunch in a nearby restaurant with some of the WordPress guys in a Burmese restaurant - Mark Jaquith, Markr (the support guy formally known as Podz), Andy and of course Matt. Excellent food and company.

I like this: Aaah! les galettes… - almost a painting. Great art.

Nice - in Couple Dancing, Cory Parris does a great job on a first dance shot.

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Looking down from on high

Thursday, October 19th, 2006 by Donncha

Looking down on a in . You wouldn’t want to be afraid of heights walking around on top of a building!

We all want to see what the are up to and living in a high building is the perfect opportunity of peeping-toms everywhere. You can see all sorts of things - a parasol with lounger across the , garden furniture, a tree; all invisible from level.

The postman has been and delivered 100 minicards from .com! I ordered 100 duplicates in the order as well so I hope they’re on the way too. I got in touch with their customer service just in case and am waiting on a reply from them now. Later - I got my reply. The duplicate cards are a separate order and were shipped separately. Should be here in a day or two!

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Have bike, will travel

Sunday, October 15th, 2006 by Donncha

As you can imagine, I was quite tired by the time I got to !

Picture above was taken just down from my Bird flying by photo. I know there are lots of awkward lines in this shot but the line of the Golden Gate is just about horizontal.
had it’s first meeting of the week a few yards from here in the glorious sunshine. Some of us suffered sunburn but it sure beat sitting around some dusty old conference table!

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Bird flying by

Saturday, October 14th, 2006 by Donncha

A flies off after an inconsiderate photographer runs after it to shoot it. Beats having the kids do the running eh? They might fall!

This was taken in , and that’s The Golden Gate in the background. I went through my shots from my August trip a few days ago and selected around one hundred images for processing. I’ll mix in a few shots over the next few week’s posts. There’s everything from bridges, and furniture, Memphis Minis and so plenty for all tastes.

Note to self - when traveling to a new timezone, change the time on your camera!

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Pog Mo Thoin san Daingean

Friday, October 6th, 2006 by Donncha

“Kiss my ass!” That’s what “póg mo thóin” means. This is from a shop display in , Co. . The town, also known by it’s name, An Daingean, is in an speaking part of the country collectively known as An Gaeltacht.

If you’re interested, you’d probably pronounce “póg mo thóin” in English as “pogue mahone”.

Interesting trivia - The Pogues got their name from this short phrase.

Both Ryan and Daragh got their free mini cards from .com but I’m still waiting on mine. They have been shipped so they’ll arrive soon I hope. Check out Daragh’s shot of his cards for an imaginative way of photographing them!

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Happy child in the water

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006 by Donncha

A very runs through the incoming tide at , Co. . The tide came in suddenly forcing all the adults back but it brought a big smile to this youngster’s face!

Originally shot in colour with the sun behind the , I had to brighten the image significantly to get any detail in the . That blew out the brighter parts of the image so I made it into a image and I’m very with the result.

It was competition night in Mallow Camera Club last night. The standard was amazingly high, but then again, a number of old hands, and pros are members as well as newbies like myself. I had to select 15 images for entry and with some difficulty whittled 30 images down to that number. After all that, there was some mix up with the projector and my images weren’t shown anyway. I don’t mind because the deadline for digital images had been during the week, not on the night, and I think images had been copied into the wrong directory. This photo would have been one of those images shown.

Just got an email from Shutterstock, my check’s in the post! Woo!

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