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The crowd at the parade

Someone had a fancy video camera at the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Cork in 2004.

Aperture	ƒ/5
Camera	CYBERSHOT
Focal length	48.5mm
ISO	100
Shutter speed	1/500s

An Impossible View

Many of the buildings in this photo are now gone, replaced with imposing glass frontage, or in the case of The Sextant there’s nothing there but a car park.

Aperture	ƒ/8
Camera	Canon EOS 40D
Focal length	125mm
ISO	100
Shutter speed	1/250s

Selling Oranges on Cornmarket Street

In front of Castle Jewellers, June 2005.

Aperture	ƒ/4
Camera	Canon EOS 20D
Focal length	30mm
ISO	200
Shutter speed	1/800s

A mural called “What is Home?” painted by Asbestos. A figure wearing a cardboard box on it’s head looks out on a derelict site next door, and across the road the site of the new convention centre, if it is ever built..

Aperture	ƒ/8
Camera	ILCE-7M3
Focal length	101mm
ISO	200
Shutter speed	1/500s

The Leisureplex a long time ago

The Leisureplex on McCurtain Street in 2004.

Aperture	ƒ/8
Camera	CYBERSHOT
Focal length	15.7mm
ISO	100
Shutter speed	1/160s

Holy Trinity in Reflection

Holy Trinity Roman Catholic church reflected in the River Lee.

Aperture	ƒ/4.5
Camera	CYBERSHOT
Focal length	36.6mm
ISO	100
Shutter speed	1/500s

Pine Island in Black and White

Pine Island in Connemara, Co Galway. On the day I took this photo the driver of a nearby car misjudged their parking spot and ended up with their back wheels spinning. After a few panicked moments they did manage to find the ground and sped away.

Aperture	ƒ/8
Camera	ILCE-7M3
Focal length	32mm
ISO	100
Shutter speed	1/200s

Street Musicians on Patrick Street

You’re more likely to see a street preacher or the guy with the “global harming” sign near this spot on St. Patrick’s Street, Cork. Back in 2004 we were treated to some guitar and banjo playing.

Aperture	ƒ/8
Camera	CYBERSHOT
Focal length	41.9mm
ISO	100
Shutter speed	1/80s

A shark in the aquarium

Center of attention at the aquarium in Dingle.

Cork 2005

Older visitors will recognise this poster if they were around Cork in 2005 when the city was “European Capital of Culture”.

This poster was draped over the city library, and I was very lucky to capture a tour bus as it drove past on a fine June day, exactly 17 years ago today.

Aperture	ƒ/7.1
Camera	Canon EOS 20D
Focal length	55mm
ISO	100
Shutter speed	1/100s

The old house by the Castle

If you’ve been to Blarney recently you won’t have seen this house. It was cleared several years ago and is now an open stretch of grass, and new wooden buildings used by the staff of Blarney Castle.

February 2015.

Aperture	ƒ/8
Camera	Canon EOS 6D
Focal length	105mm
ISO	1000
Shutter speed	1/125s

Queue for the bus on St. Patrick’s Quay

The bus stops on St. Patrick’s Quay are being moved to various locations around the city disrupting the future travel arrangements of people who use them.

You used to be able to get a bus from west Cork to the city, walk to the next bus stop and hop on a bus to Dublin but now they’ll be in separate parts of the city.

Not exactly encouraging for people with mobility issues.

Aperture	ƒ/2.4
Camera	SM-G998B
Focal length	9mm
ISO	50
Shutter speed	1/3000s