• Marlboro

    Clothes pegs in a textured cloth bag, Marlboro branded plastic bag, 1993 calendar. Shot at my parents-in-law house.

    I love the texture of the clothes bag, but that wasn’t what attracted my attention at first. It was the calendar and the Marlboro bag. Since cigarette advertising is now banned it’s unusual to see any sign outside of shops.

    Aperture ƒ/4
    Camera Canon EOS 20D
    Focal length 18mm
    ISO 100
    Shutter speed 1/60s
  • Housing market slow?

    The Irish housing market is slowing down but sales are still being made.

    A tiny house down the road from this one in Blarney sold a few weeks ago even though I’m sure you could hardly swing a cat in it …

    Aperture ƒ/4
    Camera Canon EOS 20D
    Focal length 10mm
    ISO 800
    Shutter speed 1/15s
  • You’re a star

    So that’s what happens to reality tv show judges when they retire. They go off to Dingle and work on a trawler!

    In the background is an old burned out trawler that has been tied up to the quay in Dingle for at least the last 18 months. I have photos of it from last year too!

    Aperture ƒ/4.5
    Camera Canon EOS 20D
    Focal length 11mm
    ISO 100
    Shutter speed 1/1000s
  • Towering over the Elysian building site

    It’s amazing how much this building site has changed in the last few years. This was taken last May. Now if you took this picture much of the sky would be blocked out by the 3 or 4 storey building work on this side of the site.

    Aperture ƒ/6.3
    Camera Canon EOS 20D
    Focal length 10mm
    ISO 100
    Shutter speed 1/100s
  • The Stanley Super 800 crowd

    The crowd went mad cheering and shouting when filming of Stanley Super 800’s Gatecrashing video finally stopped.

    You wouldn’t believe how many takes a music video takes but they were as vibrant and cheerful at the end as at the start! Amazing!

    Image processed through the “Urban Acid” plugin that appeared on the GIMP Users mailing list last week. Nice effect!

    Aperture ƒ/5.6
    Camera Canon EOS 20D
    Focal length 10mm
    ISO 200
    Shutter speed 1/30s
  • Think Superwoman!

    Chalk graffiti on the temporary hoarding in front of the old Dunnes Stores store on Patrick Street, Cork.

    THINK!

    Aperture ƒ/4
    Camera Canon EOS 20D
    Focal length 10mm
    ISO 400
    Shutter speed 1/30s
  • The green chair

    Are you comfortable sir? Please sit down and the lift will descend in a moment.

    A chair sits in a service lift on the sidewalk outside my hotel in San Francisco. The chair looked so out of place in the urban environment I had to shoot it!

    Aperture ƒ/7.1
    Camera Canon EOS 20D
    Focal length 10mm
    ISO 100
    Shutter speed 1/100s
  • How much is your camera worth?

    On Saturday I took my Canon 20D into a camera shop here in Cork and asked how much they’d give for it as a trade in against a Canon 40D.

    After a few minutes I found out the disappointing answer. €300. Depreciation is a bitch isn’t it? The Canon 40D body is €1200 here. I need to start saving.

    In other camera news, the M/AF switch on my wide angle Sigma lens fell off! I noticed it gone this afternoon and can’t find the switch anywhere. Hopefully it won’t be too expensive to replace.

  • Winter Leaves

    It’s cold out there and the trees are almost bare. Some leaves still hang on however!

    Aperture ƒ/4.5
    Camera Canon EOS 20D
    Focal length 10mm
    ISO 400
    Shutter speed 1/50s
  • Randles Court Starlights

    We stayed in The Randles Court Hotel in Killarney, Co. Kerry last February and one night I wandered out to take a few shots.

    This was a long exposure shot, with the aperture closed down as much as possible to f/22.

    Lovely hotel too!

    Aperture ƒ/22
    Camera Canon EOS 20D
    Focal length 10mm
    ISO 100
    Shutter speed 30s
  • Boy in his woolly hat

    A small boy waits outside Brown Thomas with his dad while I presume his mother shops inside.

    I had plenty of company while I waited!

    Aperture ƒ/4
    Camera Canon EOS 20D
    Focal length 21mm
    ISO 200
    Shutter speed 1/500s
  • The hand that holds the phone

    Waiting outside Brown Thomas on Patrick Street in Cork and texting. She’s waiting for someone.

    Aperture ƒ/6.3
    Camera Canon EOS 20D
    Focal length 200mm
    ISO 400
    Shutter speed 1/125s