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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!
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Evening Light on Sheep’s Head
Sunset on the north side of Sheep’s Head last night, looking over towards the Beara Peninsula. I didn’t expect much colour, but a break in the clouds let the light through. It was gone within minutes, but not before I had shot it dozens of times!
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Sitting in the Sun at Bantry Market
The van was parked side on to the sun on a warm February day in Bantry last year. Sun shone for a brief moment and I caught a moment where he looked up from his phone.
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The Stones Arches of Ballydehob
The tide was full, and the water had gone completely flat, so the stone arches came out twice in the frame. We were lucky. The weather back home in Blarney was atrocious, with rain falling from cloudy skies.
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Shandon from the Dunnes Stores restaurant
The best view of Shandon in the city centre is from the restaurant upstairs in Dunnes Stores on St Patrick’s Street, above the trays and the tea urns. I stared out the window, above the building site that is the Crawford Gallery.