St Patrick’s Bridge in the background, pictured from Mary Elmes Bridge. A love lock on the fence but thankfully there aren’t many on it. Love locks are a serious problem for structures as they add unplanned weight. Happy holidays! Hope you had a nice day today!
O’Donovan’s Butchers on Princes Street is long gone but back in 2002 I took this photo on Christmas Eve of shoppers getting food for their dinner the next day. 19 years ago to the day.
Fireworks illuminate the park beside Páirc Uí Chaoimh in Blackrock tonight. The fireworks were part of the “Magic Nights By The Lee – A Winter Solstice” series of events but unfortunately due to Covid 19 they didn’t tell anyone where the fireworks would be launched from as reported by The Echo earlier today, For public…
I went into town today and after finding parking around Gilabbey Street I wandered around Grand Parade until the sun set and got a few photos of the ferris wheel there. No stalls this year which is disappointing but with Covid19 on the rampage it’s understandable. Masks were seen inside and out among young and…
The lights of cars in the car park of Blackpool Shopping Centre blur into ghostly lines. This photo is built from 4 separate images taken at the exact same spot, merged into one in Photoshop. I thought I had posted a similar photo to this one but I cannot find it. It’s lost to the…
Walk down by Blarney Lake and you’ll see Blarney House off the distance. There are usually cattle or horses in the fields around here but on this July day in 2015 the fields were empty.
Looking across from the Lee Fields on a nice October evening earlier this year.
A blue boat and others in the water near Crosshaven, Co Cork in 2018.
A robin on my garden wall in December 2020.
Donoughmore Vintage Festival, Jul 2005.
A Starlink satellite terminal from SpaceX sits in front of the gigantic 32m wide dish at The National Space Centre at Elfordstown in Co. Cork. The NSC was celebrating their tenth birthday this weekend with two open days featuring work by Nicklas Lundberg and local school children highlighting space waste. A very broken looking dish…
Tucked away behind Fountainstown Beach is a wrecked boat that has been there for many years. I wonder how many people know it’s there?