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Diego in Town
Dogs don’t need to wear masks around people, thankfully. He hates being left at home. As soon as he has an inkling that we’ll be going out he will sit by me looking directly at my face. If I’m not looking at him he starts jumping up looking for attention. He’s a small dog, but…
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Cork in Covid-19 Lockdown
I barely used my camera in April. I took one photo with it and it was a test shot of my office window. My first time taking the camera out was May 9th when we had to go into town to do some shopping. Not many people were wearing masks then, but social distancing was…
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Comet NEOWISE over Blarney
On Thursday night I went out with my son to photograph Comet NEOWISE. This is a comet that was only discovered a few months ago on March 27 by NASA’s NEOWISE telescope. Comet nuclei are cosmic snowballs of frozen gases, rock and dust that orbit the sun. They can range in size from a few…
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The Daphne Caruana Galizia Memorial
Flowers, candles and tributes to Daphne Caruana Galizia left at the foot of the Great Siege Monument, opposite the Law Courts in Valletta. Daphne Caruana Galizia was assassinated on October 16th, 2017 when a bomb exploded in her car close to her home. She was an investigative journalist in Malta who, “revealed controversially sensitive information…
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The ATM has Legs
Fixing the ATM in Bank of Ireland, St. Patrick’s Street. Aperture ƒ/2.4 Camera SM-G965F Focal length 4.3mm ISO 50 Shutter speed 1/160s
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The Rebel Burger Co
At Glow Cork last Christmas. Seems like a million years ago now! Aperture ƒ/4 Camera ILCE-7M3 Focal length 16mm ISO 12800 Shutter speed 1/250s
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Clannad 50th Anniversary Farewell Tour in Cork
Clannad, the Irish band that is this year celebrating 50 years together began the year with a Farewell Tour. They played in the Opera House in Cork in early March when I saw them and they were great. I didn’t know much of their music beyond the obvious themes to Robin Hood or the Harry’s…
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Social Distancing with a Locker
Porto, Portugal, November 2019. Long before SARS-CoV-2 hit Europe. Street photography feels like a forbidden art now that we are all at home and we’re not allowed on the streets in any numbers. * You obviously should not walk around with a locker like this. STAY AT HOME! Aperture ƒ/4 Camera ILCE-7M3 Focal length 16mm…
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The MacCurtain St Construction Site
If you’ve driven along MacCurtain Street lately you’ll have noticed a few lanes are blocked and York Hill is completely closed. A 73-bed “micro-sleeper hotel” is going in there which I presume means rooms will be a little bigger than the capsule hotels in Japan.. Aperture ƒ/8 Camera ILCE-7M3 Focal length 16mm ISO 100 Shutter…
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Flash Harry at the Opera House
This was my fourth time seeing Flash Harry perform, and third time in the Cork Opera House and they brought the house down as they always do. The first half was sedate with a good mix of well known and more obscure Queen songs. I loved their rendition of ’39. After a brief interlude where…
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Landing in Lanzarote
Lanzarote Airport sits right by the coast. There’s a beach at one end of the runway where you can get great photos of the landing planes. I wonder what the pilots think of the onlookers watching at this dangerous stage of a flight? Aperture ƒ/8 Camera ILCE-7M3 Focal length 31mm ISO 500 Shutter speed 1/250s
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The Ferris Wheel in Cork
The Ferris Wheel on Grand Parade. Christmas 2019. It’s gone now, I presume. Aperture ƒ/4 Camera ILCE-7M3 Focal length 34mm ISO 125 Shutter speed 1/2000s