Posts Tagged ‘silhouette’

Great ball of flame

Sunday, April 20th, 2008 by Donncha
Great ball of flame

over a few days ago. There was a thin layer of on the horizon that nicely blocked out much of the light of the allowing me to capture this early .

It’s amazing to think that the light we see takes 8 minutes to travel the immense distance between the and Earth. What’s even more remarkable is the thousands of years a photon can spend zinging back and forth inside the before emerging as heat and light.

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Silhouettes in the club

Friday, March 30th, 2007 by Donncha

Some of the audience who gathered to take part in the Stanley Super 800 video of Gatecrashing silhouetted against the bright lights around the band’s equipment.

I underexposed on purpose so the silhouettes of the in the image contrasted with the stage lighting. Shot during a break in performances when most were outside getting some air!

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Shadows of prison and freedom

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007 by Donncha

A crow flies off into the freedom of the air with a crumb of bread he found on the pavement. The railings of nearby houses are like those of a prison keeping humans in and trapped and closed off.

Who is free?

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Is it Bank of Scotland(Ireland) or Halifax?

Saturday, October 7th, 2006 by Donncha

Bank of Scotland() are changing their unwieldy name to the much shorter “”. The bank is a major player in the UK market, but the name change could yet backfire because isn’t very well known in . I presume a slick marketing campaign will take care of that.

The building across the is the branch of the bank on the Grand Parade. I love how the picked out the bright white of it’s walls and the bike in the foreground was in shadow beneath a tree.

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