Girls on the town Pictured on Winthrop Street a few days ago.

English Market Seller There’s a wonderful looking olive and spice stall in the English Market! Unfortunately it is always mobbed with customers making it difficult to capture a photo of it but I raised my camera into the air and shot this blind. The original is quite grainy as I used a high ISO of…

Run around and around! Children running around a labyrinth on The Grand Parade. Schools, churches, community groups and businesses around Cork were asked to design them as part of the closing ceremonies of Cork City of Culture 2005.

Audience Through a break in the crowd I spotted a little girl watching a band play on the street in front of Brown Thomas. Nollaig Shona daoibh! (translation)

Santa’s on his way! Tonight Santa visits as the Christian world celebrates the birth of Jesus over 2000 years ago.

Christmas Goods For Sale At Blackpool shopping center there was a charity event for the Belarussian Orphanage Project. A band played inside and just inside the main doors they were selling Christmas cards and small gifts. Not sure if I should have left this as a colour image but I think as a character study…

Off The Wall Pictured at the Blarney Woollen Mills a week ago. Links of the Day Retouching Magazine Cover – magazine photos have to feature pixel perfect beautiful men and women. This girlpower Flash presentation goes through all the little touch ups that go into improving a model’s eye, nose, cheeks, lips, breasts, waist and…

Smile Please! Guy in a clown suit walking around town. Not everyone was amused!

Wet Day Shopping Couple walking along Patricks Street Cork on Saturday.

Lights From the Middle Standing in the middle of the road outside Blarney.

Walking Patrick’s Bridge Pictured walking along Patrick’s Bridge, Cork on Saturday evening. What really attracts me to this image, despite it’s obvious flaws, is the figure in the dead-centre. There’s light all around yet here’s a walking shadow.

Blarney Castle Gate Pillar The current Blarney Castle was rebuilt after a major fire in 1446 and afterwards had an entrance gate different to that which is presently visible. I was out for a walk a few days ago taking photos when I met two men in high-visibility jackets. They saw me with the camera…