After the horses parade, the jockeys mount their horses for the coming race. Ice cream is always popular, even on a cold hilltop on race day. 🙂
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 24mm |
| ISO | 500 |
| Shutter speed | 1/500s |
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Bunched up at Dawstown
I attended the point to point horse racing this afternoon at Dawstown, Co. Cork, with others from Blarney Photography Club. We were lucky with the weather, even if it did become cold later on.
There was a good crowd there, and I recognised some faces from last year. If the shouting from the crowd is anything to go, they enjoyed the day too!
Aperture ƒ/6.3 Camera ILCE-7M3 Focal length 383.9mm ISO 1600 Shutter speed 1/1000s -
An empty street in Seaside
This is something you won’t see often in The Truman Show, it’s an empty street.
It’s not the same road as the one with the traffic jam in the movie, but it’s similar. It’s surreal walking around the town of Seaside in Florida after seeing The Truman Show.
Aperture ƒ/13 Camera Canon EOS 40D Focal length 106mm ISO 400 Shutter speed 1/640s -
Steam from the Brewery
Steam rising from the Heineken brewery in Blackpool is a common enough sight, with the accompanying smell familiar to anyone who lives near a brewery.
Aperture ƒ/9 Camera ILCE-7M3 Focal length 113mm ISO 3200 Shutter speed 1/500s -
Llafranc at Night
The Spanish coast of the Mediterranean is a sea of artificial light, making astrophotography pretty difficult to do, but it does make for interesting panoramas.
The original merged image is over 9,000 pixels wide and full screen, it’s great to zoom in and scroll around.
Aperture ƒ/8 Camera ILCE-7M3 Focal length 48mm ISO 400 Shutter speed 5s -
Another lap at the races
A rider and horse at the Dingle Races completes one lap of the track in August 2022.
Aperture ƒ/8 Camera ILCE-7M3 Focal length 132mm ISO 800 Shutter speed 1/1000s -
Transparent Legs
On a busy street in Valencia, I took photos of the passing traffic under a cloudy sky lit by the setting sun. Another tourist decided they wanted to photograph the same scene and somehow failed to see me crouched near my camera. It wasn’t until his companion shouted at him to move that he obliged and moved!
Aperture ƒ/16 Camera ILCE-7M3 Focal length 35mm ISO 100 Shutter speed 10s -
Pigeons take flight
I heard him say, “sorry”, when his dog barked and scared all the pigeons, but he did me a favour. The pigeons in Bishop Lucey Park weren’t doing much!
Aperture ƒ/8 Camera ILCE-7M3 Focal length 24mm ISO 1250 Shutter speed 1/500s -
Met him eating mushrooms
Bishop Lucey Park in Cork is now a building site, but on this July day in 2023 it was just a quiet day in the city, with some cyclists, obviously.
Aperture ƒ/8 Camera ILCE-7M3 Focal length 75mm ISO 8000 Shutter speed 1/500s -
It’s mine
A man walking past the site of the old tax office on Sullivan’s Quay in Cork, last July.
Aperture ƒ/8 Camera ILCE-7M3 Focal length 75mm ISO 200 Shutter speed 1/500s -
Please, I can’t breathe
A mural on a wall in Santa Barbara shows George Floyd, and his words, “PLEASE, I CAN’T BREATHE”.
The mural was painted by Griffin Lounsbury and Chad (Chadillac Green) Westmoreland. Here’s an article about the mural by a local newspaper.
Aperture ƒ/8 Camera ILCE-7M3 Focal length 32mm ISO 1600 Shutter speed 1/500s -
Damrak by Night
The Damrak in Amsterdam is a street in front of the main railway station of the city, where you can see the beautiful reflection pictured here.
If you’re lucky, the water will be as still as it was the night I photographed it. The reflections of the houses there are eye catching!
Aperture ƒ/8 Camera ILCE-7M3 Focal length 36mm ISO 200 Shutter speed 4s Fediverse reactions
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From the Cork-Dublin Train (2016)
Temple Hall at Sunset (2017)
A flash of red (2018)
Walking The Dog (2021)
Lanzarote Santa in April (2022)
A walk by the office (2024)