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Flash Harry in 2021

A few more photos of Flash Harry from their September 2021 performance in the Opera House, Cork. They played there recently but I didn’t get to see them. They are a great Queen tribute band however. Go see them if you can!

Posting these because I wanted to test out Topaz Denoise on some high ISO noisy images. It did a fabulous job cleaning them up!

Mike Gray posted some great photos of musicians performing on his Twitter account, and he said he used DXO PureRAW. I was going to try the free trial of that but since I already had Denoise I wanted to give that a proper go at these images. Very happy with it too.

Aperture	ƒ/6.3
Camera	ILCE-7M3
Focal length	98mm
ISO	16000
Shutter speed	1/640s

Tags Cork, Cork Opera House, Flash Harry, Ireland, Music, Photos, queen, Sony A7 III

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Flash Harry at the Cork Opera House

Post author By Donncha
Post date September 25, 2021
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A much delayed concert by Queen tribute band, Flash Harry, in Cork went ahead tonight in Cork Opera House and it was worth the wait. The band were great and had everyone dancing around by the end of the night!

Mask wearing by the audience started out well but by the interval hardly anyone I saw was wearing one. I guess that probably happens at every venue. People are sick of restrictions, but the pandemic isn’t over yet. While the auditorium appeared quite full our row of seats was mostly empty, and the rows ahead of us were packed. So I’d believe they’re limiting attendance to 60% of capacity. Things go back to normal on October 22nd.

As I’ve said before, if Flash Harry are playing near you go check them out!

Aperture	ƒ/6.3
Camera	ILCE-7M3
Focal length	63mm
ISO	6400
Shutter speed	1/400s

Tags Cork, Cork Opera House, Flash Harry, Ireland, Music, Photos, queen, Sony A7 III

Cork Ireland Photos Street

Put a mask on your face

Put a mask on your face
You big disgrace,
spreading your germs all over the place.

* Spotted on the doors of Golden Discs, St. Patrick Street, Cork.

Aperture	ƒ/8
Camera	ILCE-7M3
Focal length	24mm
ISO	320
Shutter speed	1/500s

Tags Cork, covid-19, freddie-mercury, Ireland, Photos, queen, Sony A7 III, St Patrick's Street, Street Photography

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Flash Harry at the Opera House

Post author By Donncha
Post date February 2, 2020
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This was my fourth time seeing Flash Harry perform, and third time in the Cork Opera House and they brought the house down as they always do. The first half was sedate with a good mix of well known and more obscure Queen songs. I loved their rendition of ’39. After a brief interlude where we were told cups of tea were consumed, and not some illicit drug the band took it up a notch with great versions of Bohemian Rhapsody, Radio Gaga, I Want to Break Free and many other hits!

The band are touring Ireland this year with lots of gigs announced. If they play near you go see them! You’re guaranteed a great night!

For more, check out my Flash Harry archive of photos.

For the photographers in the audience. All the photos were shot with a Sony A7III, and and adapted Tamron 28-300 “super zoom” which unfortunately doesn’t focus that well. As a result I used back-button-focus since the performers were mostly standing in the same general area, and I wasn’t moving from my seat so it worked well!

Tags Cork, Cork Opera House, Cork Photos, Flash Harry, Ireland, Irish photos, irishblogs, Music, People, Photography, Photos, queen

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Flash Harry at the Opera House

Post author By Donncha
Post date February 16, 2019
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Flash Harry played in the Opera House last night to a sold out crowd. They’re a Queen tribute band from Belfast and this is my third time seeing them, and I have to admit, they’re getting better with age!

Check out their Facebook page for updates and go see them if you have the opportunity!

Aperture	ƒ/5.6
Camera	ILCE-7M3
Focal length	100mm
ISO	12800
Shutter speed	1/125s

Tags Cork, Cork Photos, Flash Harry, Ireland, Irish photos, irishblogs, Music, opera-house, People, Photography, Photos, queen, Sony A7 III

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Flash Harry in the Opera House

Post author By Donncha
Post date March 29, 2018
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Flash Harry played in the Cork Opera House on March 23rd 2018. The last time I saw them play was in 2006 at the Cobh People’s Regatta. They were great then, they’re great now!

Aperture	ƒ/5.6
Camera	Canon EOS 6D
Focal length	133mm
ISO	640
Shutter speed	1/125s

Tags Canon 6D, Cork, Cork Opera House, Cork Photos, Flash Harry, Ireland, Irish photos, irishblogs, Music, People, Photography, Photos, queen, Urban

Canon 40D Cork Ireland Music People Photography Photos Sigma 18-200

Killer Queen

Queen cover band Killer Queen played in The Opera House, Cork a few months back and I snapped a few photos!

Aperture	ƒ/5.6
Camera	Canon EOS 40D
Focal length	88mm
ISO	3200
Shutter speed	1/100s

Tags Canon 40D, Cork, Cork Photos, Ireland, Irish photos, irishblogs, Killer Queen, Music, opera-house, Photography, Photos, queen, stage

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Cobh Peoples Regatta – Flash Harry

Post author By Donncha
Post date August 16, 2006
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Flash Harry, a Queen tribute band played to the crowd at the Cobh Peoples Regatta last weekend after the fireworks. They were great, driving the crowd wild!
*phew* This post took ages to do, had to get up early to work on this one. Hope you enjoy the photos!

You can find out more about Flash Harry on their website.
Sorry if you’re on dialup, this may take a while to download!

Cobh Peoples Regatta – Flash Harry

Aperture	ƒ/5.6
Camera	Canon EOS 20D
Focal length	125mm
ISO	400
Shutter speed	1/60s

Tags band, Canon 20D, Cobh, Cobh Peoples Regatta, concert, Cork, Cork Photos, crowd, Events, Flash Harry, gig, Ireland, Irish photos, Night, People, Photos, queen, Sigma 18-200, tribute, Urban

Dublin Ireland Music Panasonic FZ5 People Photos

Queen at the Ballet

Queen at the Ballet – Radio GaGa

Queen at the Ballet – God Save The Queen

Queen at the Ballet is a ballet accompanied by the music of Queen. It features an on-stage orchestra, and two charismatic vocalists sing and act as ringmasters for the action on stage. It played for the last two weeks in the Point Theatre, Dublin, Ireland, but it’s moving on now. If the show comes to your city make sure you go!

I’m a big fan of Queen music, so seeing this show was an emotional and amazing experience for me. Jacinta loved it too, soaking up the music and the visuals with me as we were awestruck by the performance! Easily the best show I’ve seen!

Thanks to the generosity of Ken Guest and Aisling and Proinnsias and Sinead we were able to go see the show. We’re still fairly broke so soon after our wedding and I really must thank them sincerely for making this happen!
It was remiss of me to forget another three important people who helped us greatly! Donal and Celine took care of Oscar for the weekend. My sister Mairead helped too, bringing him for a walk in the lovely sunshine! Thank you all!

Photos were taken with my Panasonic FZ5 from about 20m away so please excuse the poor image quality! Besides which, I didn’t feel like using the camera much because I was enjoying the show so much.

Surprisingly, “God Save The Queen”, was part of the show. A performer appeared on-stage waving two tiny Union Jack flags as the orchestra played the anthem of the United Kingdom.

He looked sheepishly out at the audience, put the flags back in his pocket and unfurled the Irish tri-colour waving it about to cheers and applause before wrapping it about himself as the lights went down and the music faded.

Aperture	ƒ/3.3
Camera	DMC-FZ5
Focal length	24.6mm
ISO	100
Shutter speed	1/30s

Tags Dublin, Dublin Photos, freddie-mercury, Ireland, Irish photos, Music, Panasonic FZ5, People, Photography, Photos, point-theatre, queen, queen-at-the-ballet, tickets