On a quiet February day in 2019 I walked down Winthrop Street and saw this busker strumming his guitar.
| Aperture | ƒ/6.3 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 16mm |
| ISO | 4000 |
| Shutter speed | 1/500s |
I was there too
On a quiet February day in 2019 I walked down Winthrop Street and saw this busker strumming his guitar.
| Aperture | ƒ/6.3 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 16mm |
| ISO | 4000 |
| Shutter speed | 1/500s |
Someone struggles with a trolley full of cardboard. It looks like it may be about to fall over!
| Aperture | ƒ/2.8 |
| Camera | ILCE-7RM5 |
| Focal length | 24mm |
| ISO | 250 |
| Shutter speed | 1/500s |



A few photos of a few seconds as the tram drove past a crowd of people waiting for another tram in Lisbon.
Some people stand still, some are animated.
| Aperture | ƒ/2.8 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 24mm |
| ISO | 1250 |
| Shutter speed | 1/500s |
A woman walks her dog in Lisbon. She stopped outside Centro Social Laura Alves.
Laura Alves was a Portuguese actress who was born in Lisbon in 1921. She passed away in 1986. Read more about her on Wikipedia.
| Aperture | ƒ/2.8 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 24mm |
| ISO | 1000 |
| Shutter speed | 1/500s |
It’s lovely to see well cared for dogs. Shih tzus need so much grooming or their fur gets in their eyes, but this one had a nice bow, and happily walked along a street in Madrid.
| Aperture | ƒ/4 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 6D |
| Focal length | 24mm |
| ISO | 800 |
| Shutter speed | 1/320s |
Near the Forty Foot in Dún Laoghaire is a statue with religious carvings on it. For once, Google Maps wasn’t too helpful about what the statue was called.
Hopefully, someone from the area will see this and let me know what it’s called.
Edit: Thanks Oisin, the statue is called Stele.
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | ILCE-7RM5 |
| Focal length | 24mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1/250s |
A tiny model of Plac Matejki sits at one end of this elegant street in Krakow. In the distance is St. Florian’s Church. Taking a photo of the model is difficult enough, and of course, I didn’t have a macro lens, but I was happy with how it came out.
In the centre sits the Grunwald Monument.
| Aperture | ƒ/2.8 |
| Camera | ILCE-7RM5 |
| Focal length | 24mm |
| ISO | 1250 |
| Shutter speed | 1/500s |
After the Pro Palestinian march walked past and down Oliver Plunkett Street in Cork. There is so much anger at what the Israeli army is doing in Gaza.
How can anyone in their right mind support Netanyahu and his Government after all they’ve done? Hamas are terrorists, but Israel bombing cities and homes and hospitals to rubble and killing tens of thousands of people is not going to address their problems. They’re just laying the groundwork for a perpetual war that will never end.
| Aperture | ƒ/4.9 |
| Camera | Galaxy S23 Ultra |
| Focal length | 27.2mm |
| ISO | 50 |
| Shutter speed | 1/270s |
When your dog leans over so much that the world leans the other way.
| Aperture | ƒ/2.8 |
| Camera | ILCE-7RM5 |
| Focal length | 24mm |
| ISO | 160 |
| Shutter speed | 1/500s |


In what seems like an eternity now, I photographed these ladies cycling along Eastcheap in London in June 2021. Hey, guess it gets you out in the fresh(ish) air and doing exercise before maybe going for a drink, or a lie down (zzzzz, too much exercise), later on.
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 126mm |
| ISO | 640 |
| Shutter speed | 1/500s |
Luckily, you’re unlikely to get sea sick just walking along the street in Dingle, even when someone walks past with a gorgeous photo of the sea.
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 24mm |
| ISO | 1600 |
| Shutter speed | 1/500s |
Wearing a cap that says “Capitan”, and dressed as he is in shorts and then in a warm jumper, I had to photograph him as he stood outside McDonald’s on Daunt Square.
I’m not sure what his name is, but I’ve seen him around Cork a few times since taking this photo last year.
| Aperture | ƒ/2.8 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 24mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1/2000s |