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Hank Wedel and Friends in Charlies Pub Cork

Donncha — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:37:16 +0000

Way back in 2009 we went to see Hank Wedel and other musicians play in Charlies Pub, Cork. It was a great night of music as far as I remember and it’s about time these photos see the light of day!

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Aperture	ƒ/5
Camera	Canon EOS 40D
Focal length	48mm
ISO	400
Shutter speed	1/60s

Braving the water at Garrettstown

Donncha — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:37:59 +0000

The weather for the first 3 and a bit months of this year have been miserable. It’s been raining, and cold and windy and miserable. The sun has poked through the clouds for a few days at a time, or more usually in between rain showers it would brighten slightly before the clouds gathered for another onslaught.

So, even though there was a good possibility of rain and the forecast said there were 54km/h winds yesterday I decided we should go to the beach! Luckily it wasn’t freezing but the wind was almost enough to blow us off our feet and it whipped the sea up into a churning mess of white flecking waves and foam on the rocks. Sometimes I couldn’t even take a photo before the wind blew against my zoom lens so much it was hard to hold steady!

It didn’t stop others either. There were well over 20 cars down there, most people sitting in their vehicles watching and listening to the wind howl. Some braved the waves.

Photo Info
Aperture	ƒ/5.6
Camera	Canon EOS 40D
Focal length	162mm
ISO	200
Shutter speed	1/1600s

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Red Heart

Donncha — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 17:34:04 +0000

A model walks down a catwalk in Union Square, San Francisco, July 27th 2007.

I was in the city with Automattic and we stayed in a nearby hotel so Union Square was a good spot to get photos. Can’t remember what occasion this fashion show was on for. I think it may have been some fashion school or something!

Photo Info
Aperture	ƒ/5.6
Camera	Canon EOS 20D
Focal length	162mm
ISO	100
Shutter speed	1/250s

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Hank Wedel and band in the Castle Hotel, Blarney

Donncha — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 10:42:54 +0000

Hank Wedel and band at the Castle Hotel in Blarney on Sunday night. The band played a blinder despite the fact there was next to no room for them. These photos weren’t me walking up to them and sticking a camera in their faces, I had to lean back!

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Aperture	ƒ/8
Camera	Canon EOS 40D
Focal length	24mm
ISO	400
Shutter speed	1/50s

The Camel Riders

Donncha — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:45:11 +0000

Here’s Lenny, Kevin and Eoin (l-r) of Polldaddy fame riding on camels in Marrakesh, Morocco a few weeks ago.

The ride was through wasteland adjoining a rich neighbourhood of Marrakesh where celebrities have their homes. When you hear that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are in town they’re not staying in the Medina, that’s for sure!
The wasteland was surreal. Dusty rubble strewn ground dotted with palm trees and you may see a tractor pulling a water tank for the trees. The houses for the most part are surrounded by tall walls and are gated but from the back of a camel you can look over (and see more palm trees, I guess they like their privacy!)

The camels move at walking pace, and the 3km journey took almost an hour, about twice as long as I’d like it to be but our balloon journey that morning had to be cut short so maybe they were trying to make up for that. No injuries from biting but Chris’s camel did try to take a chunk out of Lenny’s camel a couple of times.

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Aperture	ƒ/8
Camera	Canon EOS 40D
Focal length	21mm
ISO	200
Shutter speed	1/125s

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The Construction of The Grand Parade Cork

Donncha — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:45:38 +0000

Six years ago the Grand Parade in Cork was a major building site. I can’t remember how long construction lasted but it went on for quite some time as they tore up and changed the road layout, widened the pavements and generally made the street look a hundred times better than it was before!

I’ve also posted photos of the construction before, with some of these photos appearing in older posts:

Seven years. That’s a long time to be running a blog and still updating it. I’ve been running Holy Shmoly! even longer but this blog is full of the photographic memories of a city and life over that period.
Most of the time taking photographs is a trade off between being there and looking through a lens. If you’re a photographer you’ll know the feeling. You may have attended a significant event but all you’ll remember was the pain of shooting at high ISO in bad light. When I can dig up old photos for a post like this it makes me glad I took my camera that day into town and snapped a few photos!

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Aperture	ƒ/8
Camera	Canon EOS 20D
Focal length	10mm
ISO	200
Shutter speed	1/160s

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The St Patrick’s Day Parade 2013 in Blarney

Donncha — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 21:44:55 +0000

Just a few photos from the short but colourful and noisy St Patrick’s Day Parade in Blarney this year. This parade proved more popular than other years as cars parked as far away as the park I live in. I don’t remember that ever happening before!

Well done to everyone who took part!

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Aperture	ƒ/8
Camera	Canon EOS 40D
Focal length	40mm
ISO	200
Shutter speed	1/125s

A woman and her phone

Donncha — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 11:49:36 +0000

A young woman concentrates on her phone in a London Tube station while our train was momentarily stopped.

Photo Info
Aperture	ƒ/7.1
Camera	Canon EOS 40D
Focal length	40mm
ISO	400
Shutter speed	1/100s

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To home on the bike

Donncha — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 09:19:32 +0000

To say there are many motorbikes in Marrakesh is an understatement. We arrived at dusk and watched shell shocked as small motorbikes wove back and forth between traffic and around corners with little evident care for safety. As a pedestrian here you must have eyes in the back of your head!

With that sorted out and explained the picture above might not be too surprising and it’s a not an uncommon sight to see 3 people on a motorbike. It looks like three generations here: son leaning forward on the handlebars, mother driving and grandmother sitting on the passenger seat.

We haven’t seen any accidents yet but this old post from 2009 says accident rates are rising.

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Aperture	ƒ/7.1
Camera	Canon EOS 40D
Focal length	21mm
ISO	400
Shutter speed	1/100s

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Hot Air Ballooning over Marrakech

Donncha — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:07:03 +0000

Yesterday brought the news that 19 tourists died in Egypt when their hot air balloon crashed. It almost made us rethink our activities today because we were planning to go up in a balloon here in Marrakech! The chance that our balloon would crash just because a balloon in Egypt crashed is minuscule. They’re unrelated events but I guess it was a reminder that the activity is not without risk. Many people did cancel their trips yesterday and our pilot thanked us for not doing the same.

It was a wonderful experience, spoiled slightly by the low hanging clouds but floating through the clouds was surreal for a few moments. Then the wind blew us towards Berber villages as we descended. People watched and children ran as we eventually came to ground. The wind had been carrying us towards the mountains and we’d pass above powerlines that snaked across the valley so the pilot took us down about 200 metres from those cables.

Definitely worth trying out!

Photo Info
Aperture	ƒ/4
Camera	Canon EOS 40D
Focal length	21mm
ISO	200
Shutter speed	1/1000s

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