Just a few photos from the short but colourful and noisy St Patrick’s Day Parade in Blarney this year. This parade proved more popular than other years as cars parked as far away as the park I live in. I don’t remember that ever happening before!
Well done to everyone who took part!
| Aperture | ƒ/7.1 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 40D |
| Focal length | 179mm |
| ISO | 400 |
| Shutter speed | 1/250s |
Christmas is upon us again and the lights and decorations are going up around the city. This is on Patrick’s Street, Cork a few days ago when we wandered around.
| Aperture | ƒ/20 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 40D |
| Focal length | 21mm |
| ISO | 125 |
| Shutter speed | 4s |
I took part in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade here in Blarney today along with my son and wife. We walked with the Community Preschool group and I am utterly amazed at the stamina of young kids! Little 3 and 4 year olds walked around Blarney and still had energy left to play with bubbles at the end!
What a wonderful day. I’m exhausted. Here’s a few photos I took.
Edit: more photos here and here, uploaded by Blarney Blog.
| Aperture | ƒ/4 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 40D |
| Focal length | 10mm |
| ISO | 400 |
| Shutter speed | 1/1000s |
One of the carol singers featured a few days ago singing her heart out on Patrick’s Street, Cork.
| Aperture | ƒ/5.6 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 40D |
| Focal length | 162mm |
| ISO | 800 |
| Shutter speed | 1/125s |
My neighbours decorate their houses with lights and decorations at Christmas time each year. Here’s a few snapshots of their efforts.
Happy Christmas! Have a great day today!
I think it’s safe to say this was the biggest smile of St. Patrick’s Day Parade 2008 for me. Nobody in the crowd was smiling anyway. They were all too squashed in or straining to see over the heads of those in front.
| Aperture | ƒ/7.1 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 20D |
| Focal length | 144mm |
| ISO | 200 |
| Shutter speed | 1/200s |
Some people go to all lengths to watch the St. Patrick’s Day Parade as these kids show.
Congrats to my friends John and Ann on the birth of their son Caelin yesterday. You’re lives are going to change *so much* but you’re going to have a great time with the little guy!
PS. Just upgraded almost all my blogs to WP 2.5, please leave a comment if you notice anything odd!
| Aperture | ƒ/5.6 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 20D |
| Focal length | 106mm |
| ISO | 200 |
| Shutter speed | 1/125s |
Squashed in on St Patrick’s Day.
| Aperture | ƒ/5.6 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 20D |
| Focal length | 144mm |
| ISO | 200 |
| Shutter speed | 1/100s |
Children look out of an upstairs window in Merchants Quay shopping centre. When I took this shot I didn’t even see them!
I was concentrating on the kids in the foreground with their flags. I think they frame the street sign rather nicely and ties in with the name of the day too.
Check out some great photos of Inchigeela from the 1960’s on textlad’s set. Thanks Katie, they’re wonderful!
This reminds me of someone at Mallow Camera Club who showed a number of slides he had bought or got off a priest who had served on a mission in South America. The images were from decades ago and the priest was dead and buried by now. Pictures were still as good as ever, but they’re languishing in a slide box now. I’d love to see them uploaded to Flickr and made public.
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 20D |
| Focal length | 106mm |
| ISO | 200 |
| Shutter speed | 1/250s |
If you’re going to sit up on a high wall wearing a funny hat you could at least look happy that you have a great position to see the St Patrick’s Day Parade. No, I didn’t see this fella smile at all.
A year before the wall was taken over by photographers but alas, the excellent vantage point was wasted this year.
| Aperture | ƒ/7.1 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 20D |
| Focal length | 200mm |
| ISO | 200 |
| Shutter speed | 1/250s |
A young girl leans on a traffic light where she has a bird’s eye view of the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Cork.
| Aperture | ƒ/7.1 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 20D |
| Focal length | 200mm |
| ISO | 200 |
| Shutter speed | 1/250s |
A flavour of the St Patrick’s Day festivities and people who attended the Parade in Cork yesterday.
Some of the Special Olympics Team took part in the parade and as I said yesterday, it was strange to see only them on the street with nobody else about. Everyone cheered them on however and clapped as they passed! The next group took at least 5 minutes to appear leaving me to wonder if the parade had already finished.
You normally don’t see Irish people waving flags about unless it’s a special occasion. St. Patrick’s Day is one of those times when the the Irish Tricolour comes out!
If there’s a buck to be made ..
Crowds lined Patrick’s Street in Cork to watch the Parade. It was crazy! To get any sort of shot I had to either hold my camera in the air and shoot blind or grab quick shots with the zoom from between the bobbing heads of those in front of me. If you were in any way uncomfortable with crowds then it wasn’t the place for you.
More tomorrow and for a few days probably.
| Aperture | ƒ/11 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 20D |
| Focal length | 33mm |
| ISO | 200 |
| Shutter speed | 1/200s |
