I’m not a huge fan of wasps, but these three were part of the exhibit of statues at Castlemartyr Resort in Co Cork. buzzzzz! Fly away!
Aperture | ƒ/8 |
Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
Focal length | 25mm |
ISO | 100 |
Shutter speed | 1/1000s |
I was there too
I’m not a huge fan of wasps, but these three were part of the exhibit of statues at Castlemartyr Resort in Co Cork. buzzzzz! Fly away!
Aperture | ƒ/8 |
Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
Focal length | 25mm |
ISO | 100 |
Shutter speed | 1/1000s |
Hey! There’s a cat on the roof!
Just one of the statues displayed at the Art+Soul exhibition in the Castlemartyr Resort was one of a cat standing on a large key. I thought it might be nice to see if the cat can stand on the roof of the hotel. 🙂
Aperture | ƒ/8 |
Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
Focal length | 24mm |
ISO | 100 |
Shutter speed | 1/100s |
Late last year I visited Youghal on a Sunday. Most of the shops were closed, including this one but the display in front caught my eye.
JFK is still highly regarded by many people who don’t know how unfaithful he was to his wife, and maybe they do know and ignore that part of him. I thought the juxtaposition of a sign saying “All you need is love” right next to a photo of a famous philanderer and his wife was delicious.
Aperture | ƒ/8 |
Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
Focal length | 24mm |
ISO | 4000 |
Shutter speed | 1/500s |
Some of the statues that decorate the entrances to St. Fin Barre’s Cathedral in Cork.
Taken while we waited for the Cathedral to open so we could hear beautiful classical music played that evening by London Concertante.
Aperture | ƒ/8 |
Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
Focal length | 240mm |
ISO | 250 |
Shutter speed | 1/250s |
Royal Scots Greys Monument soldier on horseback by William Birnie Rhind, Edinburgh Castle, Princes Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
Aperture | ƒ/8 |
Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
Focal length | 28mm |
ISO | 100 |
Shutter speed | 1/5s |
The Vatican Museum, Rome. November 2017.
Aperture | ƒ/8 |
Camera | Canon EOS 6D |
Focal length | 31mm |
ISO | 1600 |
Shutter speed | 1/40s |
The Monument to Garibaldi at the highest point of the Janiculum hill in Rome. November 2017.
Aperture | ƒ/8 |
Camera | Canon EOS 6D |
Focal length | 28mm |
ISO | 100 |
Shutter speed | 2s |
Cork, April 2015.
Aperture | ƒ/7.1 |
Camera | Canon EOS 6D |
Focal length | 105mm |
ISO | 320 |
Shutter speed | 1/125s |
A statue of a mother and child stands near where we stayed in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Aperture | ƒ/11 |
Camera | Canon EOS 40D |
Focal length | 144mm |
ISO | 400 |
Shutter speed | 1/500s |
This is a metal statue in ReykjavÃk of what looks like a Viking longboat but according to the Wikipedia page is in fact a “dreamboat”.
It is a common misunderstanding that Sun Voyager is a Viking ship. It is quite understandable that many tourists think like this when travelling in Iceland, the land of the sagas. Nonetheless, it should be stressed that this was not the original intention.
Jón Gunnar was himself very ill with leukaemia at the time that the full-scale Sun Voyager came to be constructed, and he died in April 1989, a year before it was placed in its present location. Some people have thus suggested that Jón Gunnar conceived the work during this period, at a time when he might have been preoccupied with death, and argued that Sun Voyager should be seen as a vessel that transports souls to the realm of death. While this is a nice idea and might be imagined to have some validity, it actually has little truth (at least from the point of view of the artist). As noted above, Sun Voyager was essentially envisaged as being a dreamboat, an ode to the sun symbolizing light and hope.
Aperture | ƒ/5.6 |
Camera | Canon EOS 40D |
Focal length | 18mm |
ISO | 400 |
Shutter speed | 1/2500s |
A statue of Leif Ericsson stands in front of the Church of Hallgrimur, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Aperture | ƒ/5.6 |
Camera | Canon EOS 40D |
Focal length | 18mm |
ISO | 100 |
Shutter speed | 1/1000s |
Statues playing music near the Perlan in Reykjavik, Iceland. So cold while I took this photo. The Perlan offers a great view of the city but the cold wind will freeze your hands! More info on Wikitravel.
Edit: check out Krista’s photos of the statues too!
Aperture | ƒ/13 |
Camera | Canon EOS 40D |
Focal length | 21mm |
ISO | 100 |
Shutter speed | 1/400s |