A sign in Blackpool is signed by the author. Must be ancient as Cork phone numbers now have 7 digits!
Aperture | ƒ/7.1 |
Camera | Canon EOS 40D |
Focal length | 24mm |
ISO | 100 |
Shutter speed | 1/100s |
I was there too
A sign in Blackpool is signed by the author. Must be ancient as Cork phone numbers now have 7 digits!
Aperture | ƒ/7.1 |
Camera | Canon EOS 40D |
Focal length | 24mm |
ISO | 100 |
Shutter speed | 1/100s |
Dunnes Stores, Blackpool in Cork City. Recent Dunnes Stores adverts finish with the byline, “The difference is we’re Irish”. It stinks of desperation as everyone north of Dublin heads up to Northern Ireland to shop!
Aperture | ƒ/14 |
Camera | Canon EOS 40D |
Focal length | 24mm |
ISO | 100 |
Shutter speed | 1/400s |
A long exposure shot of traffic as it heads into Cork City from the direction of Blackpool. This was very difficult to take and the original shows quite a bit of shake even though I had the camera balanced on a pedestrian traffic light button thingy. Love the streaks though.
Aperture | ƒ/22 |
Camera | Canon EOS 40D |
Focal length | 10mm |
ISO | 100 |
Shutter speed | 2.5s |
A small rowing boat lies beached on the rocks under holiday homes in Puerto Del Carmen, Lanzarote in the Canary Islands.
Aperture | ƒ/5 |
Camera | DMC-FZ5 |
Focal length | 16.9mm |
ISO | 80 |
Shutter speed | 1/400s |
A woman digs into her bag in Covent Garden, London. We had a small, tasty lunch in the restaurant behind.
Aperture | ƒ/4.5 |
Camera | Canon EOS 40D |
Focal length | 11mm |
ISO | 100 |
Shutter speed | 1/15s |
Girl reading a book on Winston Churchill on the Underground in London.
Lucy Kennedy, on a bus stop poster in Patrick’s Street Cork.
Aperture | ƒ/3.5 |
Camera | Canon EOS 40D |
Focal length | 18mm |
ISO | 400 |
Shutter speed | 1/200s |
Snow? Ice? Cold rain and biting wind? What are you talking about? Look at the sunshine streaming down through the palm trees! The swimming pool is nice and refreshing.
I can dream can’t I? This is the view from our room in Hotel Los Fariones in Puerto Del Carmen. Lovely hotel, and while we were there in May 2006 it was nice and quiet. Breakfast is great, although their sausages tasted strange and I still remember that almost 3 years later. Beds were *very* hard. My wife and I had to get a massage by the end of our stay to get rid of the aches and pains from lying on them.
By the last weekend it was busier and I swear, I know it’s an urban myth, but I heard German tourists rushing out to put their towels on the pool loungers first thing in the morning. Looks like I’m not the only one to experience this early morning rush:
The trick to beating this tactic and not having to deal with the angry sunbather when they return is to leave the towel on the ground and move the entire chair somewhere else.
Camera | dDP series |
I could post a photo of the snow that fell this morning in Blarney but I think everyone is sick of the cold weather. Instead here’s a photo from my honeymoon in Lanzarote. This was taken in Puerto Del Carmen on a roasting hot day when even the ground was too hot to touch!
More sunny photos to follow! 🙂
Aperture | ƒ/5 |
Camera | DMC-FZ5 |
Focal length | 6mm |
ISO | 80 |
Shutter speed | 1/400s |
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 |
The Chicago Theatre on State Street in the city of the same name. The sign in front is hard to miss but I’ve never been in there. Maybe next time I visit Chicago. More info on the theatre’s history page. Love that Netscape favicon!
This was shot in 2005 but I know I have shot the same scene a number of times.
Aperture | ƒ/7.1 |
Camera | Canon EOS 20D |
Focal length | 18mm |
ISO | 100 |
Shutter speed | 1/160s |
The badge of the rented car we had while the wipers of our car were being repaired a few weeks back.
It snowed too 🙂
Aperture | ƒ/5.6 |
Camera | Canon EOS 40D |
Focal length | 10mm |
ISO | 100 |
Shutter speed | 1/60s |