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  • Flying the Irish Tricolour on the QE2

    The Queen Elizabeth 2 is a British ship, and it’s likely that many of the passengers were British too. I spotted one large Union Jack flag draped over a railing and people on the ship waved mini Union Jack flags too. That sort of gets under the skin of many Irish people.

    A huge crowd had gathered on the quayside at Cobh. A band was playing and people cheered and waved as the ship departed. The atmosphere was great but when the Irish Tricolour appeared on the roof of the ship, being waved by a young man, the crowd let out a huge cheer, and whistled and clapped in appreciation.
    They were still waving the Irish flag as the ship left the harbour. I spotted them after she turned!

    Aperture ƒ/6.3
    Camera Canon EOS 40D
    Focal length 88mm
    ISO 100
    Shutter speed 1/100s

  • QE2 Leaving Cork

    The Queen Elizabeth 2, or QE2, flagship of the Cunard Line, docked for the last time in Cobh yesterday and left this evening just after 6pm. Here she is after turning in Cork Harbour and seconds before she increased speed and left the harbour for good.

    In 2009, she will become a floating hotel in Dubai. A fitting ending for a luxury ship that has plied the waters of the world for the last 39 years.

    I took over 300 shots of the Queen Elizabeth 2 today and filled almost 4GB of space with RAW images. In hindsight, many of the images would have been fine as Jpeg files but I had the space, so I used it. I hope to upload a gallery of my favourite images tomorrow.

    Aperture ƒ/5.6
    Camera Canon EOS 40D
    Focal length 18mm
    ISO 100
    Shutter speed 1/80s

  • GIMP 2.6 out and I’m looking for the Ubuntu package

    Hot news this afternoon is that GIMP 2.6 is now out. The release notes are the first place to look for a list of what’s new in this image editing software.

    From the my perspective, there may not be anything mind blowing, but they have started integrating GEGL and there’s an option to enable it, so it might be possible to edit images in 16bit mode. I’ll have to start dumping my RAW files to gigantic tiff files once that happens. High quality Jpeg is great, but it’s 8bit. Most of the time I don’t notice, but on images with lots of blue sky it’s possible to see ugly banding of the blue that isn’t there in the RAW file.

    I’m waiting for the Ubuntu Linux .deb, as are others and hopefully it’ll make it’s way to getdeb.net sooner rather than later. Meanwhile I’ll try my hand at compiling it myself.

    PS. Welcome all from People’s Republic of Cork. Your visits are appreciated!

  • Tir na nOg ar Oilean Chleire

    Tir na nOg is the house on the right of this photo. It’s a house that Colaiste Ciaran, an Irish summer school on the island, rents during the summer and where I spent a number of weeks years and years ago. The long, low building attached to the left is a canteen.

    An Oige have a large hostel further down, near the stony beach. I remember looking with curiosity and longing at the kayaks in a nearby shed. Us students never got anything quite as exciting as those!

    Aperture ƒ/9
    Camera Canon EOS 40D
    Focal length 18mm
    ISO 100
    Shutter speed 1/200s

  • Jetman Yves Rossy lands, who is the photographer?

    Matt reminded my wife that the National Geographic Channel were showing the Jetman documentary last weekend. Yves Rossy flew across the English Channel from France to the UK last week while strapped to a rocket powered wing. I finally got to watch it last night and enjoyed it immensely. It’s a great achievement. Slightly mad perhaps, and very risky, but I have one question though.


    Who is this photographer who managed to get snapshots of Yves seconds after he landed? I’d say it’s a compact camera he has in his hand so he’s not a pro, and the commentator was heard to say something like, “close friends are running up to..”

    Jetman
    Seconds later, a security guard rushed up and pushed the photographer away and that was the last we saw of him. Was he arrested?

    The next scene was a crowd of press photographers, with DSLRs and video cameras pushing around Yves. I bet they’d have given anything to get a close up shot of the Jetman landing..

    More details and a video can be found in this Times article.

    Aperture ƒ/2.8
    Camera N73
    Focal length 5.6mm
    ISO 125
    Shutter speed 1/53s

  • General Michael Collins

    Michael John (“Mick”) Collins (Irish: Mícheál Seán Ó Coileáin; 16 October 1890 – 22 August 1922) was an Irish revolutionary leader, Minister for Finance in the First Dáil of 1919, Director of Intelligence for the IRA, and member of the Irish delegation during the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations. Subsequently he was both Chairman of the Provisional Government and Commander-in-chief of the National Army. He was shot and killed in August 1922, during the Irish Civil War. (Wikipedia)

    A memorial I spotted pinned to the wall of the Eldon Hotel in Skibereen, Co Cork. The hotel itself is run down now and I thought it was actually closed until I saw the cork-guide.ie website. Anyone been in there recently?

    PS. Ciara has posted a few photos from the Women’s Mini Marathon on Sunday. Looks like they had great fun!

    Aperture ƒ/8
    Camera Canon EOS 40D
    Focal length 10mm
    ISO 100
    Shutter speed 1/160s

  • San Francisco 4884m

    San Francisco is 4884nm (nautical miles?) from Cape Clear in Co Cork. Have you noticed the misspelling yet? I never did until a few minutes ago!

    Aperture ƒ/14
    Camera Canon EOS 40D
    Focal length 24mm
    ISO 400
    Shutter speed 1/320s

  • Angela’s Shop in Fountainstown

    Angela’s Shop and Coffee Dock in Fountainstown Co Cork. This shop has been at the beach in Fountainstown for the last 20 years (according to the owner) but I had never ventured inside until today. We were served lovely cups of tea which we enjoyed outside in the blazing sun.

    I had hoped to shoot the women’s mini marathon earlier in the day but we had a busy morning with the baby and weren’t ready to leave the house until 1pm. Sorry Ciara, would love to have seen you and the girls in wedding dresses!

    Aperture ƒ/14
    Camera Canon EOS 40D
    Focal length 22mm
    ISO 400
    Shutter speed 1/320s

  • No Through Road

    Construction work on the building site between Emmett Place and Patrick Street in Cork continues at a pace. Despite the slow down in the economy high rise cranes can still be seen on the city skyline and are more prominent than the recently opened Elysian.

    Aperture ƒ/4
    Camera DMC-FZ5
    Focal length 6mm
    ISO 80
    Shutter speed 1/160s

  • Tractor at Allihies

    A tractor in the carpark at Allihies Beach in Co Cork.

    Aperture ƒ/10
    Camera Canon EOS 20D
    Focal length 10mm
    ISO 100
    Shutter speed 1/250s

  • Cottages in decay

    Two tiny cottages sit on the quayside in Cape Clear’s North Harbour. You might have missed them when you arrived because they’re off in the opposite direction most people take.

    I was quite taken with the contrast between both cottages. While both are obviously old and have seen better days, the left one has a new roof and a PVC door and window. I wonder if anyone lives there?

    Aperture ƒ/8
    Camera Canon EOS 40D
    Focal length 88mm
    ISO 100
    Shutter speed 1/200s

  • New Age Folk in Bishop Lucey Park

    The hippies were out in force in Bishop Lucey Park on Saturday as the new age folk made their presence felt at a “Peace in the Park” mini festival. I have to admit to being just a little cynical at events like these. Thankfully tarot readers or aura photographers were nowhere to be seen, although some guy was pontificating about what the “ordinary person didn’t know”, etc etc, and there was a Shell to Sea stall manned by a lonely girl clutching her baby. Even Frank was there and just as surprised as us by it. It wasn’t publicized at all.

    Just behind the Onion Seller was a wigwam with people beating drums inside, and up at the other end near the fountain a stage was set up and music could be heard all over the park.

    A comment on the Onion Seller post above makes the point that Bishop Lucey Park is not actually the same park as The Peace Park. I knew this park had been named after Bishop Lucey, but thought it was given the name, “Peace Park” as a nickname. This article clears things up. The Peace Park is on the Grand Parade, I presume down by the National Monument although there’s hardly any grass left there, if at all?

    Ah, my wife Jacinta has the answer. It’s that patch of grass between South Mall and Grand Parade where there’s a monument to fallen soldiers (I think). It’s currently a building site which is why I had forgotten it.

    Aperture ƒ/3.5
    Camera Canon EOS 40D
    Focal length 10mm
    ISO 400
    Shutter speed 1/100s
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