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Queen cover band Killer Queen played in The Opera House, Cork a few months back and I snapped a few photos!
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Queen cover band Killer Queen played in The Opera House, Cork a few months back and I snapped a few photos!
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My entry in the latest Hipstamatic competition. Image is a visual interpretation of a song from an album by Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse, with collaboration from David Lynch.
I need your help to pull votes in for my entry, I would love if you would share this link on FaceBook, or at least click like below! If you’re on Twitter you can click here to send an update to your Twitter account to vote.
Please click the like button to vote for my entry, I’d really appreciate it if you’d comment in the little box that pops up when you click like:... The Lady of Opera Lane via In Photos dot org
Spot the lady?
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So you want to be a model, and you put your pictures up on Pure Storm for a photographer to come across and notice. I know, catagorising every image can be hard... but "casual"? For this one? Really? Especially odd considering she had "going out pics" on another image. And what an interesting choice of backdrop to the subject matter... Perhaps it's just her angle to get some exposure...
A very genuine best of luck to xxxbeccalulaxxx in her fledging modeling career....
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Waterstones on Saint Patrick Street in Cork. Also Game, Euro City and a derelict store once rented by one of the national banks here in Ireland.
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A SuperValu lorry delivers produce to their store in Dingle, Co Kerry a number of months ago. While the rest of the country basked in the first rays of a beautiful Summer we were lucky to get two nice days out of seven.
Love the area though, and the staff of the Dingle Skellig Hotel took great care of us!
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If you have an iPhone you may have come across the Hipstamatic iPhone app – it’s a camera app that turns the phone’s camera into a vintage camera with different lenses that achieve different vintage looks.
Hipstamatic run regular competitions and at the moment they are running one and the prize is an iPhone 4.
The competition is called “The Look” and they are looking for shots to create a book of Hipstamatic portraits of the best poses. To enter, you upload a Hipstamtic “print” via your Hipstamatic app and you have 5 days to accumulate votes through FaceBook and Twitter. The overall winner gets the iPhone and the top 100 get the chance to be in the book of portraits
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A hand written notice strung up on a pole at the corner of Winthrop Street and Patrick’s Street in Cork records the names of those killed by Israeli commandos recently.
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If you know me well, you may know I love the music of Queen. I never had the pleasure of seeing them live unfortunately but I’ve been to a number of Queen inspired events, Flash Harry played in Cobh a few years ago and there was Queen at the Ballet too. (Thanks Ken, Aisling, Proinnsias, Sinead!)
So I jumped at the chance to see Queen tribute band, Killer Queen when they played in the Opera House recently. They were good, some parts were great, and Brighton Rock was absolutely amazing even if I got the feeling some people in the audience didn’t know that song.
Killer Queen are a blast. The crowd loved them. Of the three performances I thought Flash Harry was the best but you’ll have a great time at Killer Queen too.
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Engine No. 36 on display in Ken Station in Cork. Here’s what the Wikipedia page on the train station has to say about it:
An old locomotive is on permanent display in the concourse at Kent Station since 1950. “Engine No. 36″ dates from 1847 and is displayed in the booking hall. Originally built by Bury, Curtis, and Kennedy of Liverpool at a cost of £1,955, the engine was obtained by the Great Southern and Western Railway to run services from Dublin to Cork. The engine remained in service until 1874.
She was displayed at the Cork exhibition in 1902, the Railway Centenary Exhibition in 1925 and the bi-centenary of the Royal Dublin Society at Ballsbridge in 1930. She was moved to a new position and restored by Iarnród Éireann in 2007.
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A clock suspended from the roof of Heuston Train Station, Dublin.
The odd thing about travel is that I’ve probably been in the US more times than I’ve been in Dublin, and certainly have been in London.
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Desde El Dia de los Muertos hasta Semana Santa
New exhibition of pinhole photo etchings by Brian Bary from Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras.
Opens May 1st, 6pm and continues until May 13th
Basement Project Space – Camden Place, Camden Quay, Cork.
All Pinhole Photos are hand printed from copper plates using a Photo Intaglio Etching process and are all of a limited edition.
Mexico’s Copper Canyon, the childhood towns of ‘Pedro Paramo’ author Juan Rulfo, a town destroyed by a volcano and an eruption in Guatemala all provided inspiration for this collection.
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One of the supports on the Shakey Bridge outside Fitzgerald Park in Cork.
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A portrait of myself shot in the mirrored column near the playground in Fitzgerald Park, Cork.
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Daffodils at the end of our estate line the edge of the road in a beautiful display.
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The River Nore runs through the city of Kilkenny where we spent a weekend earlier this month at WordCamp Ireland. In the photo you can see the Rivercourt Hotel where I stayed with my family on the opposite bank the famous Kilkenny Castle.
Beautiful city, well worth a visit.
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A Morris Minor, registered in 1964, parked in Bantry town in County Cork. Pictured in September 2008 while on holiday there.
After reading the Wikipedia page on the car this is probably a Minor 1000.
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A balloon seller on Daunt Square in September 2009, during one of our photowalks. A shopper takes her ease in the foreground.
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Grim faced people walking along O’Connell Street in Dublin a month ago.
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River Island used one of my photos on a tshirt. Without telling me. I never got around to calling them out on it at the time and the tshirt has since disappeared from their clothing range but I want to post this anyway.
The first I knew that a tshirt had a photo of mine on it was when Dan, the skateboarder in the photo, contacted me and asked why a member of Irish band “The Script” was wearing a tshirt with his image on it. The band were interviewed on RTE and the interview ended up on Youtube where he saw it. I tried to get in touch with the band without any success.
Some time after, Dan got in touch again. He had spotted that River Island were selling the tshirt with my photo! At the time he was very upset and angry, and so was I. Unfortunately I was in Canada at the time... False dawn of the city via In Photos dot org
As you may have already guessed, that’s not the dawn. It’s the lights of Cork City (and Blarney) shining and into the sky in a long exposure shot I made last August.
I had meant to mention this sooner but 2 weeks ago I was shocked to hear about the death of Debbie Metrustry (@debbiemet), a wonderful person I had the pleasure of conversing with by tweet and by email over the course of the last year or so. She even won a print on this blog last year, but between this and that I never got around to sending it to her. I hope I can get in touch with her family at some stage and offer it to them instead.
Debbie’s blog on WordPress.com is still there and will be as long as the service is there (which is forever, right?), I’ve seen to that.
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One of the wheels of a boat trailer in Baltimore, County Cork.
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Petrol pumps sit idle at the same derelict station I shot this flo gas photo.
One of my photos will be auctioned off today as part of Bid For Haiti in the Metropole Hotel in Cork. Paul O’Mahony is organising it but my brother Donal is helping to get prints together.
Check out #bidforhaiti on Twitter!
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Bare trees reach for the sky by the Atlantic Pond and Marina in Blackrock, Cork.
Shot in April 2008.
woof woof woof woof woof woof woof woof woof….
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Bishop Lucey Park in Cork City was the location of a wonderful display of angel statues. They were decorated in all sorts of ways and even had one dedicated to Jedward!
Adam had a great time running around them, and had loads of fun playing with another boy named Nathaniel. They went crazy chasing around and screaming as loud as they could at the pigeons who had an unexpected bout of exercise!
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The bridge spanning the river outside Abbeystrowry Cemetery near Skibereen in County Cork.
My wife was driving, I was able to enjoy the scenery!
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The roofed gates of Abbeystrowry Cemetery near Skibereen in County Cork.
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Abbeystrowry Cemetery is located near Skibereen in County Cork. It is the site of some of the mass graves used in the area during the famine around 1845.
I didn’t know, or had forgotten there was a famine in 1740/1741 when 400,000 people died. That many people died on this little island of ours in such a short time? The mind boggles.
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