Debenhams’ confused identity

Debenhams bought Irish department store chain, "Roches Stores", back in 2006, and rebranded their Cork store on Patrick Street shortly afterwards.

Unfortunately nobody has yet replaced the big "Roches Stores" logo at the top of the building. It’s still there, more than a year later! 🙂

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Camera Canon EOS 20D
Focal length 10mm
ISO 400
Shutter speed 1/320s

Carrots!

All sorts of produce is for sale in the organic shop in the English Market, Cork. Including these carrots.

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Camera Canon EOS 20D
Focal length 10mm
ISO 800
Shutter speed 1/30s

Irish Post Office

The post box outside a post office in Fermoy, Co. Cork.

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Camera Canon EOS 20D
Focal length 10mm
ISO 200
Shutter speed 1/160s

Walking on air

My brother Cathal leapt into the air to head the ball when Kilkully Decking played Mulligans played at Turners Cross a few weeks ago.

Unfortunately they lost, but it was a great game of football. Cathal played a blinder!

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Camera Canon EOS 20D
Focal length 135mm
ISO 400
Shutter speed 1/250s

Whirling around and around

A merry-go-round or whatever you call it kept the kids entertained in the Peace Park last night as Santa visited courtesy of 96FM.
Even the Lord Mayor of Cork turned up. He had no problems finding parking. I saw his car parked up on the broad new pavement outside the park. The “07 C 1” number plate is very distinctive.

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Camera Canon EOS 20D
Focal length 48mm
ISO 100
Shutter speed 1.2999999523163s

For sale at Sherry FitzGerald

These are the swanky new offices of estate agent Sherry FitzGerald in Cork. I find it intriguing that the owners decided to bring in other agents to sell the other floor space in the building.

There are signs for Savills/Hamilton Osborn King and Lisney on the top floor directly above the "Sherry FitzGerald" logo. I’d be really unhappy about that if I was them and had spent so much money on new offices. 🙂

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Camera Canon EOS 20D
Focal length 28mm
ISO 100
Shutter speed 1/125s

Marlboro

Clothes pegs in a textured cloth bag, Marlboro branded plastic bag, 1993 calendar. Shot at my parents-in-law house.

I love the texture of the clothes bag, but that wasn’t what attracted my attention at first. It was the calendar and the Marlboro bag. Since cigarette advertising is now banned it’s unusual to see any sign outside of shops.

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Camera Canon EOS 20D
Focal length 18mm
ISO 100
Shutter speed 1/60s

Housing market slow?

The Irish housing market is slowing down but sales are still being made.

A tiny house down the road from this one in Blarney sold a few weeks ago even though I’m sure you could hardly swing a cat in it …

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Camera Canon EOS 20D
Focal length 10mm
ISO 800
Shutter speed 1/15s

Towering over the Elysian building site

It’s amazing how much this building site has changed in the last few years. This was taken last May. Now if you took this picture much of the sky would be blocked out by the 3 or 4 storey building work on this side of the site.

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Camera Canon EOS 20D
Focal length 10mm
ISO 100
Shutter speed 1/100s

The Stanley Super 800 crowd

The crowd went mad cheering and shouting when filming of Stanley Super 800’s Gatecrashing video finally stopped.

You wouldn’t believe how many takes a music video takes but they were as vibrant and cheerful at the end as at the start! Amazing!

Image processed through the “Urban Acid” plugin that appeared on the GIMP Users mailing list last week. Nice effect!

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Camera Canon EOS 20D
Focal length 10mm
ISO 200
Shutter speed 1/30s

Think Superwoman!

Chalk graffiti on the temporary hoarding in front of the old Dunnes Stores store on Patrick Street, Cork.

THINK!

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Camera Canon EOS 20D
Focal length 10mm
ISO 400
Shutter speed 1/30s

Winter Leaves

It’s cold out there and the trees are almost bare. Some leaves still hang on however!

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Camera Canon EOS 20D
Focal length 10mm
ISO 400
Shutter speed 1/50s