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193 steps to Covent Garden

Post author By Donncha
Post date February 2, 2009
9 Comments on 193 steps to Covent Garden

193 steps, but they’re all going up. We arrived in the Underground station at Covent Garden in the middle of the day when queues for the elevators up were *sooo* long. Actually, I didn’t know this at all. I had dawdled behind taking a few photos and recognised a few faces darting down a side tunnel so I followed them. As I ran after them I snapped the warning sign that read,

This stairway has 193 steps
Do not use
except in an
emergency

Filled with a resignation that it must be the only way I followed them up.

Oh my God. My knees were like jelly by the time I saw sunlight. I never want to do that again. Next time we wait patiently for the elevator.

PS. My brother and I and our future brother-in-law Mike left London yesterday, but Donal is still in the city, and last I heard, was tucking into some spicy food at a Chinese restaurant! Great weekend!

Aperture	ƒ/7.1
Camera	Canon EOS 40D
Focal length	10mm
ISO	1600
Shutter speed	1/100s

Tags Black and White, Canon 40D, Covent Garden, irishblogs, London, London Underground, Photo, Photography, Sigma 10-20, Signs, train, tunnel, underground, Urban

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Do not trespass on the railway

Post author By Donncha
Post date November 6, 2008
1 Comment on Do not trespass on the railway

Do not trespass on the railway, Penalty £1000, or if there’s a train coming you’re going to get squashed! Thanks Matty for the Pound sign help!

Shot at Paddington Station, London this afternoon.

Camera	Canon EOS 40D
Focal length	18mm
ISO	250
Shutter speed	1/5s

Tags blur, Canon 10-22, Canon 40D, Hammersmith and City Line, irishblogs, London, Long Exposure, motion, Paddington Station, Photo, Photography, railway, Signs, train, train-station, United Kingdom, Urban

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Tourists on the tram

Tourists on a tram in Chinatown, San Francisco. I got lots of smiles and waves from the passengers when they saw my camera pointed at them!

Aperture	ƒ/9
Camera	Canon EOS 20D
Focal length	10mm
ISO	200
Shutter speed	1/160s

Tags Black and White, California, Candid, Canon 20D, holiday, irishblogs, People, Photo, San Francisco, San Francisco Photos, Sigma 10-20, Street Photography, tourists, train, tram, United States, Urban, vacation, Vehicles

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Kent Train Station

Kent Train Station in Cork is familiar to many travellers. It was built in the 1800s, and the Wikipedia article on it has some interesting background information.

Tags Architecture, Cork, Cork Photos, engine, kent-train-station, Photo, railway, station, train, Trains, Urban

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Working

When you travel to Cork by train you’ll pass underneath the north side of the city through a railway tunnel. We had to switch trains on the way back from Dublin the other day and finished our journey in one of Iarnrod Eireann’s old stock. They didn’t even turn the lights on as we went through the tunnel but that gave me the opportunity to snap this gentleman working.

HOWTO: Photo was a 20 second exposure and his face was completely blown out but by decreasing the contrast I brought out his reflection in the window. B/W conversion was done using the channel mixer with RGB settings of 29.6/161.7/-200 to give a psuedo infra-red effect.

Tags Abstract, Black and White, Cork, Cork Photos, laptop, People, Photo, train, working