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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…
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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…
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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. Aperture ƒ/6.3 Camera ILCE-7RM5 Focal length 600mm ISO 800 Shutter speed 1/2000s