• Andy in the car

    Andy Skelton pictured in the back of Matt’s car here in San Francisco!
    This is an experiment in iPhoto because I can’t ssh home!

    Andy took a photo of me in the airport as we waited for Podz. I was wilting and falling asleep on my feet.
    Note to everyone – don’t pack your shoes in your luggage. If you’ve walked through fertilized grass in the previous year, the US security scanners will detect it as an explosive! My bag arrives tomorrow..

    Aperture ƒ/5.6
    Camera Canon EOS 20D
    Focal length 10mm
    ISO 800
    Shutter speed 1/60s
  • Child Asleep

    A child sleeps while the rest of his family mill about.

    Taken in the same market as yesterday’s music posters in Dublin.

    Aperture ƒ/4
    Camera Canon EOS 20D
    Focal length 10mm
    ISO 200
    Shutter speed 1/400s
  • Love messages

    A brick wall with graffiti on it.

    Messages of love scrawled on a wall in Dublin.


    Apertureƒ/8
    CameraCanon EOS 20D
    Focal length10mm
    ISO200
    Shutter speed1/640s

  • Music Posters

    Music posters for sale in a market in Dublin a few weeks ago.

    Aperture ƒ/4
    Camera Canon EOS 20D
    Focal length 10mm
    ISO 200
    Shutter speed 1/400s
  • Cork College of Commerce

    The main entrance and sides of the Cork College of Commerce on Morrison’s Island, Cork.

    Aperture ƒ/8
    Camera Canon EOS 20D
    Focal length 10mm
    ISO 200
    Shutter speed 1/320s
  • Hop On, Hop off the Spire

    The infamous Dublin Spire with a tour bus in the foreground.

    “The Dublin Spire is one hundred and twenty metres tall, making it by far the tallest structure in Dublin city centre. It is three metres wide at the base and tapers to a 15 centimetre wide beacon at the top. The top section is perforated and lit by small LEDs.”

    I like these: What Goes Up and Rosie and Nora.

    Aperture ƒ/16
    Camera Canon EOS 20D
    Focal length 10mm
    ISO 200
    Shutter speed 1/250s
  • Aon Am – At Any Time

    A no-parking and disabled parking sign on Fr. Mathew Quay.

    I like this: 010design.it

    Aperture ƒ/8
    Camera Canon EOS 20D
    Focal length 10mm
    ISO 200
    Shutter speed 1/1000s
  • Holy Trinity Church

    Holy Trinity Church on Fr. Mathew Quay, pictured from just outside a side gate on a beautiful Saturday afternoon.

    The church and attached friary are run by the Capuchins who have been in the city since at least 1637. The church above dates from early eighteenth century.

    Aperture ƒ/8
    Camera Canon EOS 20D
    Focal length 10mm
    ISO 200
    Shutter speed 1/500s
  • Middle East War Protest

    On Saturday afternoon, Cork Alliance Against War held a protest against the war in Lebanon.

    After reading this story about the Kudsi family I have a lot more sympathy for them. Their house was bombed early one morning and most of the household was wiped out.
    “In the early hours of the next morning, as Rayan, 30, slept near her daughters Alice, 6, and Celine, 3, an Israeli warplane dropped two one-ton bombs on their house in Hoshe, a village south of Tyre.

    Rayan, her girls and her 78-year-old grandmother Um Zuheir were killed, probably when the first bomb struck the villa’s concrete roof just after 4.30am. The family’s tenants, a United Nations official from Ghana and his wife, also died.”

    Branedy says it better than I could. Israel really has lost the war.

    Aperture ƒ/10
    Camera Canon EOS 20D
    Focal length 20mm
    ISO 200
    Shutter speed 1/100s
  • Three Daisies

    Daisy Daisy,
    Give me your answer do!
    I’m half crazy,
    All for the love of you!
    It won’t be a stylish marriage,
    I can’t afford a carriage,
    But you’ll look sweet on the seat
    Of a bicycle built for two!

    Aperture ƒ/5.6
    Camera DMC-FZ5
    Focal length 6mm
    ISO 80
    Shutter speed 1/400s
  • Ladybird’s spots

    Oh so high! When you’re tiny a few inches off the ground can appear like a huge drop to you.

    The ladybird scurried away after this shot to get some peace and quiet from the camera toting freak in the garden! 🙂

    Aperture ƒ/4.5
    Camera DMC-FZ5
    Focal length 6mm
    ISO 80
    Shutter speed 1/400s
  • Lady in the grass

    A ladybird in the grass of my back garden.

    Taken with my Panasonic FZ5. Almost run out of pre-prepared images. I’ll need to fire up the GIMP this weekend.

    Aperture ƒ/4
    Camera DMC-FZ5
    Focal length 6mm
    ISO 80
    Shutter speed 1/400s