Every tourist in London has a photo of Big Ben, so here’s another one. 🙂
| Aperture | ƒ/5 |
| Camera | ILCE-7RM5 |
| Focal length | 62mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1/640s |
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It’s Big, Ben!
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The Sacred and the Street: St. Augustine’s Before It Closes
The news broke at the end of last month that St Augustine’s Church in Cork would be closing later this year.
Despite walking past there hundreds of times while out walking I’ve only been in there a couple of times. I happened to call in about a week before that announcement and took the photos above.
The building has been featured here before. Jeremiah Cronin sold the Echo in this porch for many years until he retired during the pandemic. He passed away in 2022.
I wonder what will happen to the building now?
Aperture ƒ/1.8 Camera ILCE-7RM5 Focal length 50mm ISO 12800 Shutter speed 1/800s Fediverse reactions
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The Wheels Go Around
I love when I spot something like this happening on the street. It happened near the London Eye where there’s a novelty photo booth shaped like a bus. Two kids were at the back, with one pointing at the wheels, and then they go and spin the wheels!
Aperture ƒ/4 Camera ILCE-7RM5 Focal length 29mm ISO 100 Shutter speed 1/640s Fediverse reactions
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Going Underground at Piccadilly Circus
Every photographer who visits London takes a shot of Piccadilly Circus. It’s practically a rite of passage. The neon screens, the crowds, and the Eros statue somewhere off to the side are iconic. So is the famous UNDERGROUND branding seen all over the city so I wanted to get a mix of the two in this photo.
Aperture ƒ/8 Camera ILCE-7RM5 Focal length 24mm ISO 400 Shutter speed 1/500s Fediverse reactions
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Arms Wide, Knives Out
The audience at Covent Garden really appreciated this knife juggler. He’d just been throwing knifes in the air above the body of a willing volunteer. I’m not sure if I’d have volunteered!
Aperture ƒ/8 Camera ILCE-7RM5 Focal length 63mm ISO 1600 Shutter speed 1/500s Fediverse reactions
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A Sea of Heads and a Sky of Lanterns
This is what Chinatown in London looks like on a Saturday evening in July. A sea of tourists as far as the eye can see, which isn’t very far unless you’re tall.
Aperture ƒ/4 Camera ILCE-7RM5 Focal length 24mm ISO 640 Shutter speed 1/500s Fediverse reactions
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19:22 on a July Evening in Chinatown
Chinatown was our last destination in London last year, but I think from the photo it’s obvious where we were. Lanterns and the T-shirt this woman was wearing make that clear!
Aperture ƒ/4 Camera ILCE-7RM5 Focal length 24mm ISO 1000 Shutter speed 1/500s Fediverse reactions
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Tan on Tan
A tan jacket, tan Timberland boots and Adidas tracksuit pants.
Aperture ƒ/4 Camera ILCE-7RM5 Focal length 24mm ISO 400 Shutter speed 1/500s Fediverse reactions
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Silhouette at the Harbour Mouth
There’s a narrow window just after sunset when the sky goes absolutely wild, when the sun has dropped below the horizon but the light is still bouncing around in the atmosphere, and you get these incredible bands of colour stacking up from warm orange through pink into deep purple and navy.
The navigation beacon at the end of the pier in Ballycotton hadn’t come on yet so it provided a subject for a silhouette against this gorgeous sky on a lovely August evening last year.
Aperture ƒ/8 Camera ILCE-7RM5 Focal length 150mm ISO 100 Shutter speed 1/13s Fediverse reactions
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Run! A Stag Defends His Harem
Last October we spotted a herd of deer, both stags and hinds, in a field. It wasn’t long before another stag wandered in and decided to break up the party.
After running around for a bit, the stag ran through the group of hinds and then walked away, trailing 3 of them!
Aperture ƒ/6.3 Camera ILCE-7RM5 Focal length 600mm ISO 3200 Shutter speed 1/1000s Fediverse reactions
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Silk and Moss in the Kerry Woods
Everyone knows Torc Waterfall in Killarney, but O’Sullivan’s Cascade is a hidden gem at the other end of the Lakes of Killarney.
There is a popular legend surrounding the cascade that it was once owned by Fionn MacCumhal and whiskey rather than water flowed from it. O’Sullivan of Tomies is said to have been the only person brave enough to stand up to Fionn MacCumhal and shared a drop of the delightful whiskey. The legend continues that when the English invaded Ireland many years, the whiskey changed into water and became known as O’Sullivan’s Cascade.
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Aperture ƒ/8 Camera ILCE-7RM5 Focal length 24mm ISO 200 Shutter speed 1/25s Fediverse reactions
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Pink on Pink in London
Sometimes the photography gods just hand you a gift, and this was one of those moments. I was walking through central London when I spotted this woman standing at the kerb in a pink striped shirt — and directly behind her, as if placed there by a set designer with a very specific sense of humour, sat one of London’s famously over-the-top pedicabs, absolutely dripping in hot pink and white faux fur.
The colour match was uncanny. She had no idea, of course.
Aperture ƒ/8 Camera ILCE-7RM5 Focal length 24mm ISO 2500 Shutter speed 1/500s
The long road (2008)
Daffodils in the Snow (2009)
Football on the beach (2011)
Oscar in the Park (2015)
Cork City Hall in Red (2016)
Cube Street (2017)
Chatting on a Busy Street (2018)
Creamy Sea (2019)
The vines stretch on (2021)
The London Skyline (2022)
A Man and His Cigarette (2023)
Making Plans in London (2024)
A Four-Legged Historian (2025)