Listening to music in Bishop Lucey Park, Cork.

Fintan Lucy and Niall O’Carroll entertained the crowds with great music and an occasional joke at the market in Blackrock village yesterday morning.

Some photos I took in Cork City yesterday as part of the June Photowalk with Cork Street Photography “in the Style of Garry Winogrand”. I only used a wide angle lens all day, and in processing I mostly avoided cropping the photos, although I did use the lens correction tool in Lightroom that straightens photos…

Outside the Apple store in San Francisco, 2007.

Tomorrow I’ll be braving the streets with Cork Streetphotography taking photos in the style of Garry Winogrand. I’d never heard of Garry but a quick Google brought me plenty of digest. First this documentary, filmed in 1982, that showed his technique and friendly nature: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RM9KcYEYXs Then I came across this excellent blog post about the…

I honestly don’t know how he was going to get that board on to his bike, but he must know a way. Spotted in San Diego in 2012. This was my entry into Blarney Photography Club’s league competition last night on the subject of transport. Unfortunately it didn’t do too well, but I still really…

Worth waiting for!

St. Patrick Street, Cork. April 2015.

TTIP is the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. It’s not something I’m too familiar with but it seems there’s lots of anger about it in certain quarters. This was a protest that took place on Grand Parade last Saturday. They’re anti GMO too. I learned that animal feed in Ireland now contains genetically modified ingredients…

Michael O’Regan is a well known sight on St. Patrick Street, Cork, selling the Evening Echo for over forty years from a couple of spots on the street. Ten years ago I took a photo of him and promised I’d make a print for him. It took some time but last weekend I handed him…