I was there too
The wrapper of a Rizla rolling papers packet lies on the ground behind a pub in an East Cork town I can’t remember the name of right now.
More on the Wikipedia page of course.
| Aperture | ƒ/10 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 40D |
| Focal length | 10mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1/200s |
The white sands of Cuminole Strand glisten on a lovely June day in 2009.
This photo almost makes me want to reach out and tilt it as my eyes are drawn to the curve of the land…
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 40D |
| Focal length | 20mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1/60s |
A balloon seller on Daunt Square in September 2009, during one of our photowalks. A shopper takes her ease in the foreground.
| Aperture | ƒ/3.5 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 40D |
| Focal length | 18mm |
| ISO | 400 |
| Shutter speed | 1/5000s |
As you may have already guessed, that’s not the dawn. It’s the lights of Cork City (and Blarney) shining and into the sky in a long exposure shot I made last August.
I had meant to mention this sooner but 2 weeks ago I was shocked to hear about the death of Debbie Metrustry (@debbiemet), a wonderful person I had the pleasure of conversing with by tweet and by email over the course of the last year or so. She even won a print on this blog last year, but between this and that I never got around to sending it to her. I hope I can get in touch with her family at some stage and offer it to them instead.
Debbie’s blog on WordPress.com is still there and will be as long as the service is there (which is forever, right?), I’ve seen to that.
If you knew Debbie you might like to read the reaction from other people who knew her.
RIP Debbie.
| Aperture | ƒ/4 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 40D |
| Focal length | 10mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 384s |
We called over to a friend’s house yesterday evening and even though I had heard there would be an eclipse I completely forgot about it. My Dad even texted me at 6.25pm that it’d be happening between 7pm and 8pm but I still forgot. Lucky he rang my wife and she reminded me of the event!
Unfortunately I only had my Sigma 18-200 zoom. The Canon 75-300 was at home so this is a severely cropped shot of the moon. I thought there was going to be a full eclipse but it wasn’t to be and only a shadow fell across the face of our nearest celestial neighbour.
| Aperture | ƒ/6.3 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 40D |
| Focal length | 200mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1/160s |
The new Opera Lane in Cork City separates the gleaming buildings of the new development that was built right in the heart of the city and completed this year. Back in July it was a rugged dirty construction site, and this photo is a fitting end to 2009, and the Noughties. Not much construction work going on anywhere in Ireland now. Just lots of debt.
I’ll post a photo tomorrow, but I’ll be posting every 3 days after that to give myself a little more free time. This blog gets a third of the traffic of Holy Shmoly! yet takes far more time to update. Traffic isn’t the reason why you should blog, but a photoblog is a very public display of creative work by it’s owner. Without feedback from new visitors it’s hard to maintain an enthusiasm for it. The unfortunate thing is that it’s very difficult to attract visitors to a site like this because of the minimal amount of text for search engines to index.
I know myself it’s easy to scan photoblogs in a feedreader. One quick look, and on to the next one. I’m guilty of that myself!
To end on a high note, I’ll have more time to prepare posts, and polish the photos I upload so I hope both are even better next year!
Happy New Year!
| Aperture | ƒ/4 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 40D |
| Focal length | 10mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1/500s |
Volunteers sang their hearts out in Ballincollig a few days ago for the Society of St. Vincent de Paul Christmas Collection.
Happy Christmas! Hope you have a great day!
| Aperture | ƒ/3.5 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 40D |
| Focal length | 18mm |
| ISO | 400 |
| Shutter speed | 1/30s |
An Alpaca stared intently at me while he munched on some straw in Blarney on Saturday.
| Aperture | ƒ/1.8 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 40D |
| Focal length | 50mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1/500s |
The single solitary donkey huddled among the Alpacas yesterday in Blarney.
| Aperture | ƒ/1.8 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 40D |
| Focal length | 50mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1/250s |
Several Alpacas were in Blarney earlier as part of a Bothar promotion to encourage people to support them. The animals, including one donkey, were a big hit with the kids. I only had my 50mm lens with me so no wide angle shots, but I did get a couple of nice ones.
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 40D |
| Focal length | 50mm |
| ISO | 400 |
| Shutter speed | 1/160s |
Not so long ago these metal edifices defined the skyline in Cork and other Irish cities. They’re all gone in Cork now, but there’s still one left in Killarney, County Kerry.
I hear tourists are taking photos of them now..
| Aperture | ƒ/13 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 40D |
| Focal length | 24mm |
| ISO | 400 |
| Shutter speed | 1/250s |
Heineken. ’nuff said!
| Aperture | ƒ/6.3 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 40D |
| Focal length | 200mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1/400s |
