Remember how impossible it was to get a hair cut during lockdown? Afterwards for some time the barber or hair dresser would have to wear a mask while grooming your hair. This was in February 2022, when we were still paranoid about COVID-19.
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 24mm |
| ISO | 8000 |
| Shutter speed | 1/500s |
Mask pulled down to the chin, cigarette on the go is the small, very 2022 contradiction I couldn’t resist framing.
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 16mm |
| ISO | 2500 |
| Shutter speed | 1/500s |
A young woman blew the smoke from a vape into the air as I walked past.
| Aperture | ƒ/1.8 |
| Camera | SM-G998B |
| Focal length | 6.7mm |
| ISO | 50 |
| Shutter speed | 1/500s |
A single weather-beaten log, marooned on the foreshore. It was nudged back and forth by the waves coming in and out but in the moment this photo was taken, the sky was reflected in wet sand and the log was beached. Safe from the incoming waters.
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | ILCE-7RM5 |
| Focal length | 24mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1.6s |
This is a small section of O’Sullivan’s Cascade in Kerry. The lovely sound of the water falling through the rocks is soothing. The picturesque scene in front of me does the opposite as I worry about composition and, “Did I get a good photo of that?”
| Aperture | ƒ/11 |
| Camera | ILCE-7RM5 |
| Focal length | 62mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1/5s |
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 28mm |
| ISO | 640 |
| Shutter speed | 1/500s |
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | ILCE-7RM5 |
| Focal length | 62mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1/25s |
Last night was our second time seeing Showdown – The ELO Experience play at Cyprus Avenue, and I think they might even have been even better than the previous time!
| Aperture | ƒ/5 |
| Camera | ILCE-7RM5 |
| Focal length | 24mm |
| ISO | 10000 |
| Shutter speed | 1/250s |
A calico cat sits in the sun in Playa Blanca, Lanzarote on a warm January afternoon in 2017. The charity, Freddy’s Cat House, erected the feeding house you can see in the background.
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 6D |
| Focal length | 73mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1/500s |
The massive Eiffel Tower glows golden as it is viewed from the Trocadéro nearby.
| Aperture | ƒ/4 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 26mm |
| ISO | 640 |
| Shutter speed | 1/25s |
Groynes in the sand as the water rushes away to do battle with another wave coming in. The ever-present push and pull of the tide, defeated for some time at least by these wooden posts.
| Aperture | ƒ/7.1 |
| Camera | ILCE-7RM5 |
| Focal length | 24mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 2s |
Two days of unbroken Cork sunshine had to end somewhere, and they ended like this. I was in the posh Dunnes in Bishopstown and when I came out the sunny sky became a brooding wall of cloud piling up overhead just as a jet lifted off.
From the ground it looked tiny, but that’s distance playing tricks; it’s almost certainly a 737, already well into its climb and dwarfed by a sky that had spent 48 hours stewing in the heat and finally decided it had had enough. I watched it pick along the edge of the dark stuff before slipping into the brighter side. Got the shot, the rain started before we got to the car with the shopping.
The heatwave was officially over, thankfully.
| Aperture | ƒ/1.7 |
| Camera | Galaxy S23 Ultra |
| Focal length | 6.3mm |
| ISO | 10 |
| Shutter speed | 1/900s |
