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  • The Last Mass at St. Augustine’s

    It was announced a few months ago that St. Augustine’s Church in Cork City would close on July 12th, with a final mass at 11:30 that morning. I arrived around 11:20, curious to see what it would be like, only to see every space on every bench taken and people standing at the back of the church. And people were still arriving as we left a moment later.

    One wonders if churches around the city noticed a drop in attendance yesterday. It’s been a long time since Irish churches were this packed for a regular mass.


    Apertureƒ/1.7
    CameraGalaxy S23 Ultra
    Focal length6.3mm
    ISO400
    Shutter speed1/100s

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  • Working the Façade

    The manager had the best spot on the street: feet planted, hand on hip, watching three other men do the actual work.

    Two were up in a green cherry picker prodding at the glass of the HSBC building, and a third leaned on a rail inside and watched them. That’s two layers of supervision for one stretch of façade. I stood behind the manager and watched the lot of them. His vest said “Manager”, in case anyone on Queen Victoria Street was unclear on the hierarchy.

    We walked on towards South Bank.


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    CameraILCE-7RM5
    Focal length24mm
    ISO100
    Shutter speed1/500s

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  • Casting Off the Pier

    Two anglers cast off the end of Ballycotton pier as the sun set. The harbour crane stood black against the sky, and one man’s rod bent back mid-cast, blurred by the long exposure. The cloud broke into pink and orange over the headland to the west, with the houses along the shore already lit. It was a warm, still August evening.


    Apertureƒ/8
    CameraILCE-7RM5
    Focal length26mm
    ISO100
    Shutter speed1/13s

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  • The Tide Coming In at Youghal

    A long-exposure photograph of a line of weathered wooden groyne posts receding into a calm sea at Youghal beach; incoming water blurs into soft streaks over brown sand, with the nearest posts capped in green weed and a pale blue sky above.
    A long-exposure photograph of a line of weathered wooden groyne posts receding into a calm sea at Youghal beach; incoming water blurs into soft streaks over brown sand, with the nearest posts capped in green weed and a pale blue sky above.
    A long-exposure photograph of a line of weathered wooden groyne posts receding into a calm sea at Youghal beach; incoming water blurs into soft streaks over brown sand, with the nearest posts capped in green weed and a pale blue sky above.
    A long-exposure photograph of a line of weathered wooden groyne posts receding into a calm sea at Youghal beach; incoming water blurs into soft streaks over brown sand, with the nearest posts capped in green weed and a pale blue sky above.

    A line of old groyne posts runs out into the sea at Youghal, the nearest ones capped in green weed, the far ones worn down to stubs. I used a long exposure to smooth the incoming water into streaks across the brown sand. The evening was flat and quiet, the sky a soft blue turning to yellow as the sun set. The posts have been here long enough that the sea has taken most of them.


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    CameraILCE-7RM5
    Focal length58mm
    ISO100
    Shutter speed4s

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  • The Day Before the Championships

    A large ash tree beside a calm reservoir under a clear blue sky, with green fields rising on the far bank, four rowers carrying an upturned racing shell overhead across the grass, a white marquee marked "Control Commission" near the water's edge, and racks of white and red hulls lined up on the right.
    Rowers and volunteers walking along a gravel path at a regatta, a woman in a yellow bucket hat and a maroon "COLÁISTE IOGNÁID ROWING CLUB" singlet carrying an upturned single scull on her shoulder and a blade in her hand, another rower in an orange "VOLUNTEER" shirt carrying blades ahead of her, a blue "SHANNON ROWING CLUB" gazebo and boat racks to the left, and a white Audi with the registration "GY17 WKM" parked on the right beneath a tractor further up the path.
    A long line of boat trailers stacked four high with white racing shells beside a reservoir, the nearest hulls marked "mj flood" and "ITALIA", with crews working on riggers in the middle distance and red, green and blue club gazebos marked "BANN ROWING CLUB" and "Commercial Rowing Club" pitched along the gravel path on the right.

    The 114th Irish Rowing Championships begin tomorrow at the National Rowing Centre in Inniscarra, and today Farran Woods was all trailers and trestles. Shells were stacked four high along the path, riggers half bolted on, blades leaning against gazebos from Shannon, Bann, Commercial and a dozen other clubs. A rower in a yellow bucket hat carried a single scull on her shoulder in one hand and a blade in the other, past a tractor waiting to get through. Down at the water a crew lifted an eight overhead and walked it to the bank, and the reservoir was flat and blue behind them.


    Apertureƒ/4
    CameraILCE-7RM5
    Focal length28mm
    ISO125
    Shutter speed1/60s

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  • North Main Street, in Yellow

    On North Main Street the two buildings split the frame: grey-blue on the left, worn yellow on the right, with Barnardos and the old Edward B. Sheehan shopfront underneath.

    A man in a yellow T-shirt walked past the charity shop, a few paces in front of a woman in a yellow cap, phone in hand. The man is about to walk over yellow paving stones in the ground, the woman is walking in front of a yellow building.

    The bollard between them has a yellow band too.

    I had just parked the car and come out of the car park nearby when this happened. A nice start to the day!


    Apertureƒ/2.8
    CameraILCE-7RM5
    Focal length24mm
    ISO320
    Shutter speed1/1600s

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  • Evening Sails at Kinsale

    A grey evening in Kinsale, with a fleet of small boats out on the harbour for what looked like club racing. Most of them carried red sails, Squibs I think, a class Kinsale Yacht Club is well known for, with a few white ones mixed in. The water was almost flat, and the crews sat low and quiet as they worked their way across it. Behind them, the wooded shoreline climbed up to fields and houses on the hill, and a single dark-hulled yacht sat moored off to the side, sails down for the night.


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    CameraILCE-7RM5
    Focal length240mm
    ISO1250
    Shutter speed1/1000s

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  • Legs Crossed, Work Paused

    Two decorators taking a break against a shop hoarding on a London street.

    I love all the legs. 🙂


    Apertureƒ/1.8
    CameraSM-G998B
    Focal length6.7mm
    ISO80
    Shutter speed1/500s

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  • Cork Wash

    The brushes spin past in blue and yellow while a black Micra sits in the middle of the cycle. This was 2005, so the driver had a newspaper open across the wheel to fill the couple of minutes it took. Water beads across the bonnet and the Cork plate, 98-C-6325, reads clearly through the spray. A small wait, before mobile phones took over that kind of dead time.


    Apertureƒ/5.6
    CameraCanon EOS 20D
    Focal length88mm
    ISO200
    Shutter speed1/50s

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  • A Long Trans Flag Across the City

    A cyclist with a speaker, marchers in a high-visibility vests holding a banner reading "Trans+ PRIDE CORK", "#BreakTheBinary", "#PrideIsAProtest" and "transpridecork.com" on a paved Cork street, with a crowd carrying trans flags behind and a "Cork PRIDE" tote bag on the left.
    Photo taken from within a marching crowd seen from behind, with trans flags and a red flag reading "www.icoi.info" raised above; a person in the foreground wears a pink t-shirt with "LOVE" printed in purple, and the "three fools" shopfront is visible ahead.
    Photo of a cluster of trans pride flags, a Palestinian flag and an Irish tricolour raised above the heads of a crowd, in front of pale and blue period buildings with a "Lovisa" shopfront on the right.
    A rally gathered around a paved plaza under a bright blue sky, with tall trans pride flags raised and a large trans flag laid flat on the ground; a steward in a yellow "Trans" high-visibility vest stands at the left as people listen to speakers.
    A speaker in a purple "Trans PRIDE CORK" vest addressing a rally from a low stage, with a long trans pride flag rolled out across the pavement and banners reading "LINC Ireland — LBQ Women T&NB Inclusive", "gender rebels — Trans Peer-Support Network" and "WE'RE WITH YOU UKRAINE"; a large "PURE CORK — PURECORK.IE" mural fills the wall behind.

    We marched with a great crowd through the centre of Cork today for Trans+ Pride Cork. A trans flag big enough to need a dozen pairs of hands was carried down the street, past the shops on Grand Parade, St. Patrick Street, Winthrop Street and then up Oliver Plunkett Street to Grand Parade again. Pink and blue flags were raised the whole way along.

    The march ended at a rally where speakers stood on a low stage and the flag was rolled out across the pavement in front of the Pure Cork mural. Banners for LINC, Gender Rebels and others lined the back of the plaza. Good company, great atmosphere, and a warm afternoon for it.


    Apertureƒ/8
    CameraILCE-7RM5
    Focal length24mm
    ISO320
    Shutter speed1/1000s

  • The Boats of Ballycotton

    A harbour at dusk with a white dinghy and its Yamaha outboard motor in the foreground, a blue fishing boat marked "POULL COUM CORK" behind it, and an orange RNLI lifeboat and other small craft moored among red buoys under a soft evening sky.
    A red-and-white fishing boat named "Infairness II" moored in a calm harbour at sunset, with a hillside of houses to the left and small boats and buoys scattered across the water beneath a broken, glowing sky.
    Small fishing and pleasure boats moored in backlit harbour water, a blue-hulled boat marked "C311" in the foreground and others named "Yassy" and "Westend III" behind, red and yellow buoys and a perched seagull dotting the scene.

    Ballycotton harbour late on a summer evening is one of those places that is rewarding to visit. The working boats had all come in, Atlantic Chief, Excelsior and Prolific were rafted tight against the wall, hulls bobbing in calm waters. The setting sun cast long, side-on shadows and clouds streaked across the sky.


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    CameraILCE-7RM5
    Focal length24mm
    ISO100
    Shutter speed1/200s

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  • Nobody’s Buying Peanuts Right Now

    The nut seller had clearly decided the crowd could wait. Some behind him caught his attention and the crowd passing in front wasn’t buying his roasted nuts.


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    CameraILCE-7RM5
    Focal length24mm
    ISO100
    Shutter speed1/500s

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