A Momentary Smile
All smiles in Lisbon.
Sky Blue on a cold day
The front of the casino on Winthrop Street is coloured an unusually calming sky-blue or cyan colour. Not the type of colour I’d expect somewhere that wants customers to get excited about losing money to use. Luckily, Deliveroo uses the same colour and a delivery guy just walked past while I was fishing for a…
They’re watching you!
The mannequins are watching you, you know? Look away and they move! Don’t blink!
Parisian Tourists
Tourists flock on to the road near the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Admittedly, I was one of them, but I was just walking across the road at the pedestrian lights.
Dogs of the Protest Rally
Two of the dogs at the regular rally supporting Gaza that happened in Cork yesterday. Another large crowd gathered, but these dogs weren’t bothered by the noise and people around.
Feeling Slightly Disjointed
The mirrors of 123 Champs-Élysées reflect a broken view of the world, making passers-by smile and laugh.
Human imitates statue
The Jeunesse d’Aristote is a statue made by Charles Degeorge and is currently in the Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Sometimes, we humans, unintentionally imitate others, even inanimate objects. Or maybe it’s just a comfortable way to sit. Degeorge captured that amazingly well in his work here.
Armed Soldiers patrol around Montmartre
Four soldiers climb the steps of Montmartre up to the Basilique du Sacré-Cœur de Montmartre on a warm August afternoon. They slowly walked up the steps, without comment or conversation. Walked around the fountains above and up the steps to the Basilica. It was unnerving, but months later, tourists were being stabbed and violently robbed…
Quickly on the flat hill
When is a hill flat? It’s much easier to walk along, that’s for sure.
The Ballincollig Regional Park Weir
The weir in Ballincollig Regional Park collapsed in 2014, but this photo was taken many years before that, in 2003. Repairs to the weird have been delayed over and over again, unfortunately.
We thought the summer rain was bad..
Remember when people thought the rain in late July and August 2023 was bad? What about Storm Isha yesterday, eh? Another storm on the way too. The start of June was blisteringly hot. It was so hot I preferred to stay inside out of it. Nobody seems to remember that. Oh, the photo above is…
Ian Bailey and The West Cork Way
Ian Bailey, the man accused of murdering a French woman, Sophie Toscan du Plantier, died today. Here he is in 2019, when he was selling his book, “The West Cork Way”, at a market in Skibereen.












