The setting sun makes the sky glow a lovely yellow before the day ends in darkness.
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 240mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1/500s |
Mushrooms on an old tree
Light speeds on the road
A bus and other traffic speed along the road at night.
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 24mm |
| ISO | 320 |
| Shutter speed | 2.5s |
Flooding in Fitzgerald Park
Fitzgerald Park in Cork City is a bit flooded after the recent rain. The children’s play area is totally flooded, as it’s lower than the surrounding ground, and the pond is overflowing onto the surrounding path.
They were waiting for the River Lee to overflow about an hour later!
| Aperture | ƒ/4.9 |
| Camera | Galaxy S23 Ultra |
| Focal length | 27.2mm |
| ISO | 64 |
| Shutter speed | 1/50s |
Vertical tiling on an old house
I spotted this house in Kinsale and it reminded me of a house on Grand Parade in Cork that has the same vertical tiling or tile hanging on its walls.
I also saw the same tiling on a house opposite that one in Grand Parade in a painting called Skellig Night on South Mall 1845 by James Beale. There’s a fabulous high-resolution image of that painting at the URL above. I thought it was unusual to see two buildings with that distinctive decoration opposite each other like that. I’m not sure if the one on Grand Parade existed in 1845. The artist’s viewpoint was looking away from it, down South Mall.
| Aperture | ƒ/9 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 134mm |
| ISO | 250 |
| Shutter speed | 1/8s |
The Red House
A red house in Kinsale. Observant readers will recall I posted another photo of this house a few months ago.
| Aperture | ƒ/9 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 40mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1/4s |
Pink Roses
Pink roses stood out against the dark bushes and overgrowth over a wall in Kinsale last summer.
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 78mm |
| ISO | 4000 |
| Shutter speed | 1/320s |
Fab in the Sun
Not so much real sun, but Sun, the newspaper. A man reads it on St. Patrick’s Street, Cork. He’s probably doing the crossword.
| Aperture | ƒ/2.8 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 24mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1/800s |
Photos at the Vatican
After the crowds have gone on a cold November day in 2017, I visited St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican for some photos, and came across two women taking advantage of the quiet for some photos.
The sun had already set, and it wasn’t 5pm yet, but it was nice to be in such a normally crowded area with hardly anyone about.
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 6D |
| Focal length | 17mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1/6s |
A grey wagtail looking for food
A grey wagtail pictured in Ballincollig Regional Park during the summer. He was hopping around in the bushes next to the River Lee, when Rory spotted him, got a few photos and called me over to see. I’d never have seen him otherwise, as he’s tiny.
| Aperture | ƒ/6.3 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 571.8mm |
| ISO | 4000 |
| Shutter speed | 1/1000s |
To be a stag in October
We went to Killarney National Park this morning to photograph the annual rutting. This is when stags come down from the mountain and look for romance and court any nearby female deer. And they’re quite vocal about it.
This particular guy was on one side of the tarmac path occupied by us human photographers, and it didn’t occur to us that he wanted to get to the other side, where a large group of younger stags and some does had gathered.
In frustration, he bellowed, pawed the ground, and ripped grass from the ground.
When we finally realised what he wanted, we made a hasty exit to the side. We watched this huge, powerful creature walk over ground we recently vacated.
Unfortunately, the other deer, male and female, all ran from him. None stayed around to challenge him. If you look carefully, you’ll see his right eye is weeping and injured. He has lost the use of that eye, whether through infection or injury, but it hasn’t slowed him down.
| Aperture | ƒ/6.3 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 473.2mm |
| ISO | 1600 |
| Shutter speed | 1/1000s |
