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Wings Up on Cornmarket Street
A crow lifted off the top of the barrier around the old Paintwell shop on Cornmarket Street, Cork, as I approached to get a closer shot. Its friends had already departed, but this one was cleaning its feathers and only looked up a moment before this photo was taken.
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A Break in the Doorway
I spotted someone sitting in the doorway of a food truck in Rory Gallagher Place, Cork, and liked the contrasting colours of what I saw.
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Two Pairs of VEJA
Two people walked by wearing VEJA runners. I didn’t notice at first, but it was only later at home I noticed the matching shoes.
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Two in bronze, two in cotton
Two bronze women sit on a rock outside the National Theatre. Two people stand in front of them reading an inscription on the ground. The sculpture is Frank Dobson’s London Pride, originally made from the 1951 Festival of Britain, made from plaster. It was only cast in bronze decades later and put back in the…
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A Wheelie on South Bank
The wheelie held for a good few seconds, front wheel up level with the rider’s chest as he rode past the person on the bench and then sped on by my side and on towards Waterloo Bridge on South Bank, London. I don’t remember seeing this in a guidebook.
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Guarding the Beacon
I walked up to photograph the Beacon and found a cow there first. It watched me carefully, judging if I was worthy of visiting the Baltimore Beacon. Or maybe it was just resting in the hazy sun of a warm afternoon in West Cork.
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Flowers on Wires
Opera Lane has flower balls and wire butterflies strung on wires above the street, but I guess everyone else is used to them or didn’t notice them, looking down at their phones or walking along. I noticed, and my neighbour walking the street noticed too.
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Gilding the Door on Popes Quay
A man is repainting the front door of St Mary’s Dominican Church on Popes Quay. It can be easy to forget that massive buildings that have been there all the time need constant maintenance.
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The Photographer and the Cliff
The cliff below the Baltimore Beacon drops a long way, and the only way to show that was to put a person at the top of the frame. Luckily, a fellow photographer was busy doing the same thing I was doing. I walked over afterwards and spoke to him and his wife. They are Swiss,…
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The Drinks Queue
The Cure came on in full sun, which is not the weather anyone associates with them. While waiting for the line for the bar to move on, I turned round to photograph the crowd. A sea of people stretched all the way to the distant trees and a manor in the background. Wow.
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The Beacon Through the Gorse
I got down low in the gorse to photograph the Baltimore Beacon, so most of the frame is flowers and wire rather than the beacon itself. A few groups came and went as I photographed the Beacon, but I don’t think any of them stooped down low and put their camera in the gorse!