• Malaga Street Artist

    A street artists in Malaga works on a portrait. Other portraits sit on the path near his feet.

    A street artist draws a portrait while other finished work sits on the ground near his feet. He works on the street next to the cathedral in Malaga, Spain.


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  • Castlerosse Park Resort Cottage

    A small cottage surrounded by a neat lawn and hedges with trees in the background.

    Situated at the edge of the woods behind the Castlerosse Park Resort golf course is this small cottage. We walked by it a few weeks ago when we were in the area to photograph the rutting.

    There was a car parked directly outside, so it’s occupied, but it’s so solitary and in a secluded area, it was like finding a magic cottage in the wood.


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    CameraGalaxy S23 Ultra
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  • Painting a Malaga Mural

    A mural of a woman in a blue dress. A man on a raised platform checks his phone and takes a break from painting.
    A couple look at a mural of a woman in a blue dress on a street.

    I spotted this mural being painted in Malaga a few weeks ago. A few people gathered around to watch. The mural is a striking painting of a woman in a blue dress, sitting in front of a landscape and a sunset.

    The painting is called, “Brisa Estival” or “Summer Breeze” by the artist, Lalone, according to this report.

    Brisa estival es el título de esta segunda obra creada por el artista Lalone, un especialista en murales urbanos, y que se integra dentro del proyecto Atardeceres Larios. El artista propone una interpretación contemporánea de la obra Días de verano realizada por el pintor Vicente Palmaroli en el año 1885 y que se expone en el Thyssen malagueño.

    (Brisa summer is the title of this second work created by the artist Lalone, a specialist in urban murals, and which is integrated within the Larios Sunsets project. The artist proposes a contemporary interpretation of the work Days of Summer by the painter Vicente Palmaroli in 1885 and which is exhibited in the Malaga Thyssen.)

    The translation above was done by Firefox, but Google Translate translated the name of the mural differently. You can find the painting, “Summer Days” by Vincente Palmaroli here.

    It’s a fabulous mural. If you visit Malaga, it’s well worth seeing.


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  • Construction at Sunset

    Cranes loom over apartments and hotels near Malaga as the sun sets on a lovely October evening

    From the top of the hotel I was staying at, I saw this lovely sunset happen and had to capture some images of it before the colour disappeared. Cranes dot the landscape, a sign of continued expansion in the Spanish tourist industry!


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  • The sunset glow

    A yellow sky just after sunset. The silhouettes of street lamps, a tree and the horizon.

    The setting sun makes the sky glow a lovely yellow before the day ends in darkness.


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  • Mushrooms on an old tree

    Mushrooms on an old tree, with moss growing everywhere.

    Mushrooms cling to an old tree trunk in Killarney National Park.


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  • Light speeds on the road

    Light streaks of passing traffic on a street.

    A bus and other traffic speed along the road at night.


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  • Flooding in Fitzgerald Park

    A red bench on a flooded path.

    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!


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    CameraGalaxy S23 Ultra
    Focal length27.2mm
    ISO64
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  • Vertical tiling on an old house

    Vertical tiling or tile hanging is a method of putting tiles on a wall. Here are two windows with tiles on the walls surrounding them.

    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.


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  • The Red House

    A red house with cream colour window frames and front door.

    A red house in Kinsale. Observant readers will recall I posted another photo of this house a few months ago.


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  • Pink Roses

    Pink roses stand out against the dark bushes they're growing from.

    Pink roses stood out against the dark bushes and overgrowth over a wall in Kinsale last summer.


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    CameraILCE-7M3
    Focal length78mm
    ISO4000
    Shutter speed1/320s

  • Fab in the Sun

    A man reading the Sun newspaper on the street. He wears a baseball cap, and is probably doing the crossword as he has a pencil in his hand. The word "Fab" is seen on an inside page of the paper.

    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.


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    Focal length24mm
    ISO100
    Shutter speed1/800s