Cork, June 2020.
Aperture | ƒ/9 |
Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
Focal length | 30mm |
ISO | 2500 |
Shutter speed | 1/500s |
I was there too
Cork, June 2020.
Aperture | ƒ/9 |
Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
Focal length | 30mm |
ISO | 2500 |
Shutter speed | 1/500s |
The anti-mask crowd make a lot of noise but despite them people are still protecting themselves and others by wearing masks during this pandemic.
Aperture | ƒ/3.5 |
Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
Focal length | 28mm |
ISO | 125 |
Shutter speed | 1/500s |
Cork, August 1st, 2020.
Aperture | ƒ/3.5 |
Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
Focal length | 28mm |
ISO | 125 |
Shutter speed | 1/500s |
I was reminded yesterday by this post on Reddit that the fire that gutted the carpark in Douglas Village Shopping Centre was on August 31st 2019. Also yesterday, the owners of the shopping centre announced that they are still on track to reopen in November.
I was in Douglas eight days after the fire and took some photos of the crane taking cars from the roof of the car park. I wonder if any of them were road worthy afterwards since the surface of the lower levels had buckled and folded with the heat of the flames. At the very least the smoke damage must have been awful.
Remember when Quinnsworth was the main tenant there and it had a huge flat car park in the 80s? These photos of Douglas in the 80s will bring back memories if you were around then.
Aperture | ƒ/10 |
Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
Focal length | 21mm |
ISO | 100 |
Shutter speed | 1/100s |
Dogs don’t need to wear masks around people, thankfully. He hates being left at home. As soon as he has an inkling that we’ll be going out he will sit by me looking directly at my face. If I’m not looking at him he starts jumping up looking for attention. He’s a small dog, but he makes his presence known!
Aperture | ƒ/3.5 |
Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
Focal length | 28mm |
ISO | 100 |
Shutter speed | 1/800s |
I barely used my camera in April. I took one photo with it and it was a test shot of my office window. My first time taking the camera out was May 9th when we had to go into town to do some shopping.
Not many people were wearing masks then, but social distancing was happening. The city was still mostly shut down and there weren’t that many people about.
It was a sign of the times that an advertisement for a movie released in mid-March was still showing on a bus at the start of May. The country had ground to a halt.
Masks become mandatory today in shops and public transport. The next phase of unlocking the economy has been put on hold. Pubs were supposed to open on August 10th but that won’t be happening.
Aperture | ƒ/8 |
Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
Focal length | 35mm |
ISO | 500 |
Shutter speed | 1/250s |
Flowers, candles and tributes to Daphne Caruana Galizia left at the foot of the Great Siege Monument, opposite the Law Courts in Valletta.
Daphne Caruana Galizia was assassinated on October 16th, 2017 when a bomb exploded in her car close to her home. She was an investigative journalist in Malta who, “revealed controversially sensitive information and allegations relating to a number of Maltese politicians and the Panama Papers scandal.” Her investigative work was continued in the Daphne Project.
Her memorial at the foot of the Great Siege Monument was being removed every night and supporters replaced it in the morning but recently that has changed and, as of January this year, it had remained intact for a month. Later, in March a court ruled that the removal of the monument violated protesters’ right to freedom of expression.
The Council of Europe report (mirror) [PDF] quoted in the picture reads:
Even after her death, there remains an appearance of government hostility towards Ms Caruana Galizia. People outraged by her assassination, who were determined to keep her memory alive and campaign for the masterminds to be brought to justice, began placing flowers, candles and written messages as an informal memorial at the symbolic site of the ‘Great Siege Monument’ opposite the court of justice. Dr Bonnici, in his capacity as minister for culture, ordered that the memorial be removed every night, and closed the monument for three months for restoration work (compare that to the 11 days it took to restore the Arc de Triomphe in Paris after it was extensively vandalised during ‘gilets jaunes’ demonstrations). One is left with the impression that the government would prefer that Ms Caruana Galizia be erased from the public memory.
Aperture | ƒ/8 |
Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
Focal length | 25mm |
ISO | 5000 |
Shutter speed | 1/500s |
Fixing the ATM in Bank of Ireland, St. Patrick’s Street.
Aperture | ƒ/2.4 |
Camera | SM-G965F |
Focal length | 4.3mm |
ISO | 50 |
Shutter speed | 1/160s |
At Glow Cork last Christmas. Seems like a million years ago now!
Aperture | ƒ/4 |
Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
Focal length | 16mm |
ISO | 12800 |
Shutter speed | 1/250s |
Porto, Portugal, November 2019. Long before SARS-CoV-2 hit Europe. Street photography feels like a forbidden art now that we are all at home and we’re not allowed on the streets in any numbers.
* You obviously should not walk around with a locker like this. STAY AT HOME!
Aperture | ƒ/4 |
Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
Focal length | 16mm |
ISO | 320 |
Shutter speed | 1/500s |
If you’ve driven along MacCurtain Street lately you’ll have noticed a few lanes are blocked and York Hill is completely closed. A 73-bed “micro-sleeper hotel” is going in there which I presume means rooms will be a little bigger than the capsule hotels in Japan..
Aperture | ƒ/8 |
Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
Focal length | 16mm |
ISO | 100 |
Shutter speed | 1/160s |
The Ferris Wheel on Grand Parade. Christmas 2019. It’s gone now, I presume.
Aperture | ƒ/4 |
Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
Focal length | 34mm |
ISO | 125 |
Shutter speed | 1/2000s |