2023 – Page 5 – In Photos dot Org

Red Valerian on the Bridge

On South Gate Bridge last summer, I spotted flowers growing from between the stones of the structure. Google Images says they’re Red Valerian, but I don’t know. They were thriving in their little spot, but I think they’re gone now as the bridge was cleaned in the recent past.

Saint Fin Barre’s Cathedral is of course visible in the background, towering over nearby buildings, but still, nothing compared to nature growing, as it will.

Aperture	ƒ/8
Camera	ILCE-7M3
Focal length	75mm
ISO	1000
Shutter speed	1/500s

A moment at a French Café

In parts of Paris, they have such wide footpaths that café and restaurants have seating outside. The city where I live has done likewise, sometimes successfully, but more often, impeding pedestrians and annoying people. One pub claimed so much public real estate that pedestrians had to walk between tables to get past.

Aperture	ƒ/1.7
Camera	Galaxy S23 Ultra
Focal length	6.3mm
ISO	125
Shutter speed	1/500s

Awesome Statues

A young tourist listens to the audio tour of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris while the statue of Tarcisius, a Christian martyr, lies next to him.

Aperture	ƒ/8
Camera	ILCE-7M3
Focal length	26mm
ISO	12800
Shutter speed	1/400s

Watch the sunset in Lisbon

The setting sun casts a lovely glow on the Igreja Paroquial da Graça in Lisbon. People up on a balcony in the church get a great view of the city and the sun.

Aperture	ƒ/8
Camera	ILCE-7M3
Focal length	105mm
ISO	320
Shutter speed	1/250s

Riding Through Lisbon Streets

A cyclist on the busy streets by the harbour in Lisbon, Portugal.

Aperture	ƒ/2.8
Camera	ILCE-7M3
Focal length	24mm
ISO	100
Shutter speed	1/640s

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

Met him eating mushrooms

Two men lean against a wall while one checks his phone and the other looks on. A poster on railings behind them is partially seen and says "Cork Cycli.. Fes..." Street furniture is painted with the text "MET HIM EATING MUSH ROOMS IN THE PEOPLE'S PARK" and the other has a figure pointing at their own head with a mic on a stand.

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 next to the hoarding around a building site with the word "Your" spray painted on it.

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

Another tourist in Malaga

A tourist looks up at something unseen out of frame in Malaga, Spain.

Malaga has a huge tourist industry and is great for street photography. I think I’ve posted at least five images over the years from this very street, and have a couple more to go, too!

Aperture	ƒ/2.8
Camera	ILCE-7M3
Focal length	24mm
ISO	400
Shutter speed	1/500s

Friends hanging around

A group of young people sitting on a window sill down a side street. A woman and two men. They each have phones and the man on the right is speaking to someone outside the frame.

Friends sitting on a window sill, in front of a shop, in Valencia one afternoon in October 2023.

Aperture	ƒ/2.8
Camera	ILCE-7M3
Focal length	24mm
ISO	1600
Shutter speed	1/500s

Sunrise by the Brickeen Bridge

Reeds in the foreground, then water and far away hills are coloured yellow by the rising sun behind clouds in the sky.

On a trip with Blarney Photography Club to the Lakes of Killarney a year ago, we photographed the water as the sun rose over the mountains in the distance.

Aperture	ƒ/8
Camera	ILCE-7M3
Focal length	144mm
ISO	100
Shutter speed	1/160s

ICM of sunset water

An ICM of the sun setting on the water at Crosshaven. Lovely orange and dark colours.

An ICM of the sunset reflected in the waters near Crosshaven last May.

Aperture	ƒ/16
Camera	ILCE-7M3
Focal length	240mm
ISO	50
Shutter speed	1/2s