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Urban Life Below Los Gigantes

The setting sun cast a lovely colour on the cliffs of Los Gigantes in Tenerife while I was packing the car. We had just eaten in a nice restaurant and were going to drive down to the harbour on the other side of town when I saw the cliffs lit up this way.

Quick as anything, I got out my camera when I spotted the scene in front of me. There are so many layers here. The family crossing the road, car waiting, parked cars on distant hills, the apartment blocks, and the looming Los Gigantes behind them all.

We left shortly after, and while the sun had dipped closer to the horizon, there was still some light on the cliffs.

Aperture	ƒ/5
Camera	ILCE-7RM5
Focal length	58mm
ISO	500
Shutter speed	1/500s

A Rhino’s Reflection

A white rhino wanders near a pool of water in Bioparc Valencia, Spain.

In 2023, two rhinos arrived in the zoo and in December that year, they had the largest group of this threatened species in Spain. The biggest threat to them is, of course, humans who want to poach the animals for their horns in a misguided attempt to provide folk medicine.

Aperture	ƒ/6.3
Camera	ILCE-7M3
Focal length	24mm
ISO	100
Shutter speed	1/125s

JD Sports Coming Soon!

It was October 2019 and JD Sports had yet to open their shop on Patrick’s Street in Cork. The back of the building, on Drawbridge Street, featured JD Sports hoarding, but now it’s derelict, with “TO LET” signs in the windows, and the SAVOY entrance is boarded up.

A sign of the times. The city can’t compete with online sales.

Aperture	ƒ/4
Camera	ILCE-7M3
Focal length	16mm
ISO	125
Shutter speed	1/500s

Waves of Time

A lone rock on Long Strand, Co Cork, as waves crash around it. The water is reduced to a misty blur in this long exposure shot. If you look carefully, you’ll see the Galley Head Lighthouse in the background.

Aperture	ƒ/9
Camera	ILCE-7M3
Focal length	82mm
ISO	50
Shutter speed	5s

Swimming in the Sky

One from the same rooftop as yesterday’s photo of Malaga. The hotel had a rooftop pool, and when I ventured up there it was lit up. It was too cold to swim on an April evening, but the light was surreal. 🙂

Aperture	ƒ/8
Camera	ILCE-7M3
Focal length	16mm
ISO	64000
Shutter speed	1/30s

A Smoke Break in Athens

We were on our way to lunch when I spotted this gentleman sitting on a crate, chatting to a person in a newspaper kiosk.

Aperture	ƒ/2.8
Camera	ILCE-7M3
Focal length	24mm
ISO	800
Shutter speed	1/500s

Los Gigantes Marina at sunset

The marina at Los Gigantes, Tenerife, with boats moored against dramatic cliffs at sunset, orange sky reflecting on calm harbour waters.

The cliffs of Los Gigantes reflect the yellow light of the setting sun, while puny, tiny, boats lie moored in the harbour beneath.

The size of the cliffs is astounding, easily dwarfing anything else nearby.

Aperture	ƒ/8
Camera	ILCE-7RM5
Focal length	24mm
ISO	1250
Shutter speed	1/30s

Anchovy Symphony in Black and White

I’m not a huge fan of anchovies, but the way these fish were displayed caught my eye. The silvery fish created an almost hypnotic pattern across the vendor’s counter, their tiny bodies catching the harsh market lights in a way that demanded to be photographed.

Aperture	ƒ/4
Camera	ILCE-7M3
Focal length	16mm
ISO	200
Shutter speed	1/250s

A Moment’s Pause in Málaga

Sometimes you have to stop and let humanity go past when there are too many people around.

Aperture	ƒ/4
Camera	ILCE-7M3
Focal length	16mm
ISO	320
Shutter speed	1/250s

The Daily Commuter

While waiting for the train in Athens, I spotted a pigeon walking around the station, calm as you can imagine, as if he owned the place.

A few minutes later, a train rolled in, passengers started moving, and the pigeon flew into the rafters. Observing all that he rules.

Aperture	ƒ/2.8
Camera	ILCE-7M3
Focal length	24mm
ISO	500
Shutter speed	1/500s

The Cat in the big smoke

There’s something delightfully peculiar about finding a cat on a lead. I spotted these two characters taking a break near Camden Town in London. The scene just screamed to be photographed. The smoke caught in the sunlight and the cat’s nonchalant pose, how could I resist?

It’s a candid shot, of course, and as the photo was taken in 2022. I wonder if they were and are still living in London?

I searched and found this TikTok video from later in 2022, so they were still around there in October that year!

A cat on a man's shoulders, getting on to a bus.

Aperture	ƒ/7.1
Camera	ILCE-7M3
Focal length	16mm
ISO	1000
Shutter speed	1/500s

Parking Bay Oops

Looks like someone wasn’t that careful parking here. The poor parking sign is doing an imitation of the Leaning Tower of Pisa!

Happy new year to you, dear reader. I’ve been posting photos here for twenty years this year. My first image, this yellow flower, is only 700px wide, but with the advent of high-resolution screens I’m now posting 1280px wide ones. I’ve gone through times when I used the featured image of the post instead of embedding it in the post like I did with this one, and that lasted for a year or two. To deal with those posts, I wrote a small function that copies that image into the post if it’s not already there. It seems to be working OK.

Here’s to the next twenty years. Gulp.

I also decided to embrace the new WordPress Twenty Twenty Five theme, and play around with the formatting of blocks. Nothing fancy at all. Just the bare bones, really.

Aperture	ƒ/2.8
Camera	ILCE-7M3
Focal length	24mm
ISO	250
Shutter speed	1/500s