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Flooding in Fitzgerald Park

Fitzgerald Park in Cork City is a bit flooded after the recent rain. The children’s play area is totally flooded, as it’s lower than the surrounding ground, and the pond is overflowing onto the surrounding path.

They were waiting for the River Lee to overflow about an hour later!

Aperture	ƒ/4.9
Camera	Galaxy S23 Ultra
Focal length	27.2mm
ISO	64
Shutter speed	1/50s

Fab in the Sun

A man reading the Sun newspaper on the street. He wears a baseball cap, and is probably doing the crossword as he has a pencil in his hand. The word "Fab" is seen on an inside page of the paper.

Not so much real sun, but Sun, the newspaper. A man reads it on St. Patrick’s Street, Cork. He’s probably doing the crossword.

Aperture	ƒ/2.8
Camera	ILCE-7M3
Focal length	24mm
ISO	100
Shutter speed	1/800s

Photos at the Vatican

A woman takes the photo of another woman who leans against a small pillar near a fountain in St. Peter's Square, in the Vatican.

After the crowds have gone on a cold November day in 2017, I visited St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican for some photos, and came across two women taking advantage of the quiet for some photos.

The sun had already set, and it wasn’t 5pm yet, but it was nice to be in such a normally crowded area with hardly anyone about.

Aperture	ƒ/8
Camera	Canon EOS 6D
Focal length	17mm
ISO	100
Shutter speed	1/6s

The Pink Boss

A woman in a pink dress stands on the street, in front of a BOSS store.

How often do we stand still on the street, surrounded by the urban environment, looking at a phone?

Aperture	ƒ/9
Camera	ILCE-7M3
Focal length	24mm
ISO	4000
Shutter speed	1/500s

The little business man

A man in a suit walks between tall buildings in Birmingham

A man in a suit walks between buildings in Birmingham. The area is almost deserted, except for a single figure further back.

Aperture	ƒ/3.5
Camera	Canon EOS 6D
Focal length	28mm
ISO	100
Shutter speed	1/320s

Eircom have notions

The double phone box on Proby’s Quay is looking the worse for wear these days. This is what it looked like on a bright July day in 2021. It hasn’t improved since.

Notions.

Aperture	ƒ/2.4
Camera	SM-G998B
Focal length	9mm
ISO	50
Shutter speed	1/1250s

Wrong Side of the Lens

This is the trailer for a new street photography documentary series. I’ve only watched this trailer, but it looks very promising.

Found in the ever excellent “Photos, mostly” newsletter.

In need of a haircut?

A man with a huge head of flowing hair walks past a barber's shop. He is wearing a red/black check jacket, a Looney Tunes tshirt and jeans

A man walks past a barber’s shop. At an age when most men’s hair is receding or is gone altogether, he has a head of bouncing, flowing hair.

Aperture	ƒ/8
Camera	ILCE-7M3
Focal length	24mm
ISO	800
Shutter speed	1/500s

This couple got married in Malaga

A couple walk along a raised platform outside Malaga Cathedral.

A just married couple embrace. She looks up at him, smiling.

They’re just married and getting their wedding photos taken. Outside the Cathedral in Malaga.

Aperture	ƒ/2.4
Camera	Galaxy S23 Ultra
Focal length	7.9mm
ISO	100
Shutter speed	1/1000s

One Hot Hit!

A woman checks her phone in front of the Covent Garden Underground station, with a huge poster for Frozen, the musical, behind her.

Aperture	ƒ/9
Camera	ILCE-7M3
Focal length	24mm
ISO	1000
Shutter speed	1/500s

A man and a blank mural

An elderly man sits on a bench in Bishop Lucey Park. The wall behind him is normally a mural but in July 2019, the wall was mostly blank.

In contrast to the photo yesterday of the same bench in 2015 when a mural appeared on the wall, this photo from July 2019 features a blank wall.

An elderly man, with his walker sits on the same bench. I hope he made it through the COVID pandemic.

Aperture	ƒ/4
Camera	ILCE-7M3
Focal length	16mm
ISO	100
Shutter speed	1/640s

Surrounded by the sights of Cork

Flowers and icons of Cork are painted on a wall in Bishop Lucey Park behind a man checking his phone on a bench.

I wonder if this man checking his phone noticed the mural behind him in Bishop Lucey Park. In this fragment of the mural you can see the old Roches Stores building, Mangan’s Clock and Shandon Bells.

You won’t see that mural there now. This is a snapshot of it from 2015.

Aperture	ƒ/6.3
Camera	Canon EOS 6D
Focal length	105mm
ISO	200
Shutter speed	1/320s