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  • The Sacred and the Street: St. Augustine’s Before It Closes

    Photograph taken from inside the entrance porch of St Augustine's Church on Grand Parade, Cork, looking out through the open dark blue panelled doors onto the street. A yellow CAUTION WET FLOOR sign stands on the tiled floor of the porch. Beyond the doorway, pedestrians walk past on the pavement, a pigeon stands to the left, and the shopfronts of Phelans Pharmacy and other businesses are visible across Grand Parade. Bare winter trees and a bus shelter are in the middle ground.

    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?


    Apertureƒ/1.8
    CameraILCE-7RM5
    Focal length50mm
    ISO12800
    Shutter speed1/800s

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  • The Wheels Go Around

    Photograph of people gathered around a red novelty photo booth shaped like a small vehicle on a London street. Three women wearing white headscarves stand at the booth's curtained entrance, one in a pink top and jeans, one in a long blue dress, and one in a pink outfit. A boy in a grey hoodie and a younger boy in a green cap and grey jacket plays with the red wheels on the side. Other pedestrians stand nearby. A London landmark backdrop is visible through the booth's window.

    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!


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    CameraILCE-7RM5
    Focal length29mm
    ISO100
    Shutter speed1/640s

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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.


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    CameraILCE-7RM5
    Focal length24mm
    ISO400
    Shutter speed1/500s

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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!


    Apertureƒ/8
    CameraILCE-7RM5
    Focal length63mm
    ISO1600
    Shutter speed1/500s

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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.


    Apertureƒ/4
    CameraILCE-7RM5
    Focal length24mm
    ISO640
    Shutter speed1/500s

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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!


    Apertureƒ/4
    CameraILCE-7RM5
    Focal length24mm
    ISO1000
    Shutter speed1/500s

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  • Tan on Tan

    A tan jacket, tan Timberland boots and Adidas tracksuit pants.


    Apertureƒ/4
    CameraILCE-7RM5
    Focal length24mm
    ISO400
    Shutter speed1/500s

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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.


    Apertureƒ/8
    CameraILCE-7RM5
    Focal length150mm
    ISO100
    Shutter speed1/13s

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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!


    Apertureƒ/6.3
    CameraILCE-7RM5
    Focal length600mm
    ISO3200
    Shutter speed1/1000s

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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.

    Destination Killarney

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    Apertureƒ/8
    CameraILCE-7RM5
    Focal length24mm
    ISO200
    Shutter speed1/25s

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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.


    Apertureƒ/8
    CameraILCE-7RM5
    Focal length24mm
    ISO2500
    Shutter speed1/500s

  • Waders Descend on Harper’s Island

    It was my first time visiting Harper’s Island and unfortunately no birds came anywhere near any of the hides, but I loved to see flocks of birds swoop through the air in synchronised flight.


    Apertureƒ/6.3
    CameraILCE-7RM5
    Focal length600mm
    ISO800
    Shutter speed1/2000s

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