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  • Under the Insurgents’ Memorial

    Shot from below, the memorial’s three bronze wings blot out most of the sky. A man in a grey hoodie sat on the granite wall at the base, hunched over something in his lap, tiny against the thing behind him. He’d picked the one spot where the monument stops being a monument and turns into somewhere to sit.

    Take him out of the frame and you’d have no clue how big it actually is.

    The Silesian Insurgents Memorial‘s three wings stand for the three Silesian Uprisings of 1919, 1920, and 1921, when Polish-speaking Silesians rose against German rule after the First World War. It was designed by sculptor Gustaw ZemΕ‚a, unveiled in 1967, and is 61 tonnes, assembled from 350 parts, with the tallest wing reaching 14 metres.


    Apertureƒ/4
    CameraILCE-7RM5
    Focal length30mm
    ISO100
    Shutter speed1/640s

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  • St. Patrick’s Night on the water

    The fireworks went up from a barge moored out in Cobh harbour, and the launch point sits right there at water level, a small fountain of sparks and smoke below the main burst. Unfortunately the barge drifted with the current, and it ended up quite far down the town, probably away from the main crowds!


    Apertureƒ/5.6
    CameraILCE-7RM5
    Focal length38mm
    ISO320
    Shutter speed1s

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  • The Last Days of the Loretto Extension

    The ugly monstrosity that was an extension to the Loretto School in Youghal, in 2023. It was finally demolished in January this year.


    Apertureƒ/10
    CameraILCE-7M3
    Focal length24mm
    ISO100
    Shutter speed20s

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  • Pop In, I Can Help

    The pharmacist in the window is beaming and offering to help. “Pop in, I can help & advise.” I don’t think this man checking his phone is a customer.


    Apertureƒ/4
    CameraILCE-7RM5
    Focal length24mm
    ISO320
    Shutter speed1/2000s

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  • Lucky Leprechauns

    The performing leprechauns are back, sitting next to the new raised flower beds that were installed by Cork City Council recently.

    They love the attention but they are loud.


    Apertureƒ/9
    CameraILCE-7RM5
    Focal length24mm
    ISO320
    Shutter speed1/500s

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  • Old Port, New Skyline

    The stone warehouses along Custom House Quay have sat behind their green doors for as long as I can remember. Behind them the glass offices construction of the Railyard Apartments tower climbs up, with two cranes over the work.

    Two eras. Old and new.


    Apertureƒ/8
    CameraILCE-7RM5
    Focal length24mm
    ISO100
    Shutter speed1/100s

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  • Three People, Three Phones, One Street

    A woman in an olive green parka with a black tote bag standing on a paved street outside a shop window, head down and thumbing at a phone, while behind the glass a poster reads "Say YES" and "SUMMER of all ...ERS", with a mannequin in a white jacket and blue jeans to the right and small icons labelled "Click & Collect" and "Shop app".
    Photo taken through a bright window with a green Starbucks siren logo above it, showing a woman in a dark jacket sitting on a green metal chair against a yellow wall, earphones in, holding a paper cup in one hand and a phone in the other, with reversed lettering reading "TOPSHOP TOPMAN" on the glass.

    Opera Lane on a Tuesday morning, and three people in a row are looking at their phones.


    Apertureƒ/2.2
    CameraSM-G998B
    Focal length2.2mm
    ISO160
    Shutter speed1/500s

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  • This Way Up

    Three red things line up in this one. First the red arrow, a sticker on one of the big cardboard boxes in the Arnotts window display, pointing across at her. Then a red and white stick taped to the glass at an angle, aimed down at her too. And the red case on her phone, which she’s looking at with her head down, ignoring all of it.

    None of it was arranged. She was just checking her screen while the window pointed a couple of arrows her way.


    Apertureƒ/8
    CameraILCE-7RM5
    Focal length24mm
    ISO400
    Shutter speed1/500s

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  • Christmas Eve on the Lee

    Christmas Eve in Cork, and the fog had settled over the south channel of the Lee and stayed put all morning. It was 2005, and the banks of the river looked very different. The old tax office still stood on Sullivan’s Quay, and the Peace Park opposite still had trees and overgrown shrubs hanging over into the river.


    Apertureƒ/3.5
    CameraCanon EOS 20D
    Focal length18mm
    ISO200
    Shutter speed1/500s

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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 FaΓ§ade

    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 faΓ§ade. 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.


    Apertureƒ/4
    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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