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. 🙂
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…
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.
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!
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.
A man walking past the site of the old tax office on Sullivan’s Quay in Cork, last July.
Walking between the Fire Station and City Hall in Cork, a shortcut from Anglesea Street to the nearby car park.
On the Grand Parade, Cork, a few years ago, I was waiting around and saw a few guys on their skateboards. They were having fun. 🙂 The public toilet with the striking mural in the background was removed in the last year or so.
Remember the Shell to Sea protests that wanted to stop Shell from bringing natural gas from the Corrib Gas Field ashore. They wanted Shell to refine the gas at sea. According to the Wikipedia page for the group, Shell exited the project in 2018. This photo is from April 15th, 2006.
The black and white pattern of this jacket caught my eye and gave me the idea of shooting a reflection here.
These Eircom phone boxes are soon going to be a thing of the past as they are being removed, but this one had two large stickers against the war in Gaza that caught my eye.
These boats were tied up in Youghal when we visited in November 2021.