Tag Archives: Cork Photos

Meteor Streak

Last night my son and I hopped in the car and travelled upstream of the Inniscarra dam on the River Lee around here where I hoped it would be fairly dark to shoot the Perseids meteor shower.

The sunset was lovely and I’ll be posting photos of that over the next few days but I was disappointed at the light pollution from Cork City on the clouds above. It was only by almost 2230 that the clouds moved away and more of the sky became visible.

I saw one meteor streak through the upper atmosphere to the north-north-east, while my son saw one almost overhead. Disappointing but we were getting tired so near 2300 I took a few photos of the sky. The very last photo I took was to the west and I liked how it looked but when I saw it on my laptop this morning I noticed the streak of a meteor at the top of the frame!

The photo was a 30 second exposure, f/4 at 2000 ISO.

Aperture ƒ/4
Camera Canon EOS 6D
Focal length 24mm
ISO 2000
Shutter speed 30s

The tree in the wheat field

On the way to Rocky Bay last week we spotted this field so we just had to take a few photos! This is also the first photo I’ve used Affinity Photo on. The original image is below.

I used the inpainting tool in Affinity Photo to get rid of the branches on the left and a few other things. I did try the same in Lightroom but the clone and heal tools just didn’t work nearly as well. Affinity photo is easy to set up as an external editor in Lightroom, and it even supports 16 bit colour which is a big bonus when working on images!

Aperture ƒ/8
Camera Canon EOS 6D
Focal length 32mm
ISO 2500
Shutter speed 1/125s

The demolition of Páirc Uí Chaoimh

The demolition of Pairc Ui Chaoimh

Parts of Páirc Uí Chaoimh in Blackrock are being demolished as part of the somewhat controversial redevelopment of the area. This Examiner article has some photos and a video of the stadium before demolition:

Pairc Ui Chaoimh 2 Jul 14

After


Aperture ƒ/8
Camera Canon EOS 6D
Focal length 70mm
ISO 125
Shutter speed 1/160s

Clontarf Bridge Closed for Repairs

Clontarf Bridge in Cork City is closed for two months as it undergoes major rehabilitation works worth €2.5m according to this Evening Echo article.

Tony O’Sullivan, senior engineer with Cork City Council’s roads department said they understood the disruption the bridge closure would cause, but had no alternative as major rehabilitation work is required.
“For the work to be carried out the bridge will have to be completely encapsulated with material to create factory-like conditions,” he said.

Aperture ƒ/8
Camera Canon EOS 6D
Focal length 24mm
ISO 200
Shutter speed 1/250s

Nohoval Cove at Night

Nohoval Cove in Co Cork is hidden away near Robert’s Cove but is a lonely part of the world. There’s a narrow road going down there, with just about enough parking for three cars. When the tide is in the water comes all the way to the slip and you have to clamber up on a rocky ledge to safety.

This was my first time down there and I had an enjoyable evening with Mark and Henry of Blarney Photography Club!

Aperture ƒ/22
Camera Canon EOS 6D
Focal length 90mm
ISO 50
Shutter speed 115s
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