Category Archives: Black and White

A Selfie in Madrid

I loved staying in Madrid. There’s a great buzz there and the streets were packed with people. Great for street photography. Not so great in this pandemic world.

Aperture ƒ/1.7
Camera SM-G935F
Focal length 4.2mm
ISO 80
Shutter speed 1/100s

Pre-Covid Life

I remember being amused at the amount of vapour that comes from e-cigarettes in the past but now it just shows how much droplets and vapour spread out from a person’s mouth and nose when they breathe deeply.

Aperture ƒ/8
Camera ILCE-7M3
Focal length 31mm
ISO 400
Shutter speed 1/500s

The Taoiseach has let us down badly

Debenhams, a large retailer in the UK and Ireland closed last year with the loss of thousands of jobs. Workers in Ireland were promised 4 weeks pay per year of service rather than the statutory 2 weeks as that had been agreed between the company and their union, Mandate.

The workers are seeking redundancy terms of two weeks’ pay per year of service, plus statutory redundancy entitlements of two weeks per year of service. The workers say this matches an agreement between the retailer and trade union Mandate made in 2016.

For updates check their page on Facebook or Twitter.

Aperture ƒ/2.4
Camera SM-G965F
Focal length 4.3mm
ISO 64
Shutter speed 1/100s
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