Bike Lane

Riding a bike anywhere on today’s streets is almost a suicidal pursuit but bike lanes help. Here a bus drove past as I took this shot in an urban tunnel in downtown San Francisco.

Aperture ƒ/22
Camera Canon EOS 20D
Focal length 10mm
ISO 400
Shutter speed 1/1.3s

Parking for the Guinness

Look up for unusual perspectives on ordinary scenes. I was quite happy with this image of a lamppost in Parnell Place, Cork when I took it. The signs are clearly visible and the upside-down Guinness logo catches the eye!

You have to wonder, what’s more important, Guinness or parking?

Aperture ƒ/10
Camera Canon EOS 20D
Focal length 10mm
ISO 200
Shutter speed 1/200s

Salim Ismail

Salim Ismail speaking at the 2006 it@cork National Technology & Business Conference.

Thanks for the name check Salim 🙂

Aperture ƒ/5.6
Camera Canon EOS 20D
Focal length 240mm
ISO 200
Shutter speed 1/60s

Eamonn Fallon

Eamonn Fallon of Irish property site Daft.ie speaking at the 2006 it@cork National Technology & Business Conference.

Aperture ƒ/5.6
Camera Canon EOS 20D
Focal length 300mm
ISO 200
Shutter speed 1/60s

Tony Kenny

Tony Kenny speaking at the 2006 it@cork National Technology & Business Conference. He’s the IT manager at Beaumont Hospital. His experiences with introducing Open Source software such as Linux and Star Office into the hospital make for a very interesting talk.

Aperture ƒ/5.6
Camera Canon EOS 20D
Focal length 300mm
ISO 200
Shutter speed 1/60s

Marc Canter

Marc Canter speaking at the 2006 it@cork National Technology & Business Conference.

Aperture ƒ/5.6
Camera Canon EOS 20D
Focal length 300mm
ISO 200
Shutter speed 1/160s

Matthias Kill

Matthias Kill speaking at the 2006 it@cork National Technology & Business Conference.

Aperture ƒ/5.6
Camera Canon EOS 20D
Focal length 300mm
ISO 400
Shutter speed 1/160s

Jeff Nolan

Jeff Nolan speaking at the 2006 it@cork National Technology & Business Conference.

Aperture ƒ/5.6
Camera Canon EOS 20D
Focal length 300mm
ISO 200
Shutter speed 1/60s

Jacques-Etienne Grandjean

Jacques-Etienne Grandjean speaking at the 2006 it@cork National Technology & Business Conference.

Tom Raftery blogged about his talk and while he’s right that no search competitors of Microsoft were mentioned, he did say that search isn’t very sticky. I’m sure he’s hoping that people will abandon Google and jump on board MS Live.

Aperture ƒ/5.6
Camera Canon EOS 20D
Focal length 300mm
ISO 200
Shutter speed 1/60s

Eddie Hobbs, Conor Kenny and Hugh MacLeod

Eddie Hobbs

Conor Kenny, Kennys.ie

Hugh MacLeod

Eddie Hobbs, Conor Kenny and Hugh MacLeod speaking at the 2006 it@cork National Technology & Business Conference.

Tom Raftery covers Eddie Hobbs’ talk on property, energy and investment.

Aperture ƒ/4.5
Camera Canon EOS 20D
Focal length 75mm
ISO 200
Shutter speed 1/60s

Looming over the building site

A tall crane looms over the building site of The Elysian, a new high-rise building that will house offices, apartments, a shopping center and underground parking. The main tower of the new building will be 17 storeys high, taller than anything else in the city.

Over a year ago I took a photo of the building site as it was then for the US Book. As you can see, they’ve dug the foundations and started on the main tower.

This picture was taken from the top of a 4 storey car park which gives you some idea of how tall that crane is!

Aperture ƒ/10
Camera Canon EOS 20D
Focal length 10mm
ISO 200
Shutter speed 1/250s

O’Flynn’s Butchers on Marlboro Street

O’Flynn’s Butchers on Marlboro St. Cork is a very popular butchers serving high quality meat with a friendly smile. We rang in our order early because we knew the place would be bare by the time we go in!

Here are the staff posing for my camera, there’s a huge collection of photos on the wall so I’m not the first, or probably the last to wander in with a camera. In fact Brian O Reilly created a 360 degree wrap around image using Apple’s Quicktime engine.

Thanks for the extra comments yesterday! The encouragement is always appreciated!

I like this: 25 years of the Brown Sisters.

Aperture ƒ/4
Camera Canon EOS 20D
Focal length 10mm
ISO 800
Shutter speed 1/40s