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On this lovely day.. flowers

It’s a lovely Friday afternoon out and I thought it would be nice to post a few photos I took in the last couple of days. Whatever you get up to at the weekend, have a good one, and for those nearer to home, have a great bank holiday!

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Spiders, spiders.. everywhere!

Sitting down to read the Sunday Times yesterday what crawls out from underneath the paper? *shudder* Any sane person would get something to either trap or kill the spider but I grabbed my camera and snapped a few photos! FWIW, when I was finished I trapped the spider and released it into the garden. It’s [...]

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No. 10000

I didn’t let up much after taking over 6,500 photos last year I’m already over halfway there this year. The photo below is the 10,000th photo to be taken with my Sony F717. It’s rather unremarkable except that I learnt a lot today about using the histogram, and the GIMP distort tool is very handy [...]

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May Day Photos – Part 3!

Fred The Band Fine End To A Great Day!

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May Day Photos – Part 2!

Tell them I’m here too! Micha, from Slovakia The Slovaks Went Mad! Fred – Tomorrow!

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May Day Photos – Part 1!

First part of my photos from the May 1st Celebrations here in Cork. A number of stalls, and a stage were erected on Patrick’s St. and the street was closed off to traffic and the weather was beautiful! Photos of Fred and Micha to come tomorrow! Waiting for the Bus Not quite as boring as [...]

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Flowers and Bees!

Flowers Bees Click on the last two images to see larger versions! The original cropped images are over 3 times bigger! You wouldn’t want to be squemish about wasps and bees to look at them!

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Blackpool Factories In Ruin

I went up to Blackpool on Saturday afternoon to photograph the textile factory and Sunbeam. Even 24 hours later smoke still rose from the fire-gutted buildings and rubble. The Evening Echo had a stark picture of the blazing building on it’s Friday edition. It’s lucky nobody was injured in the blaze. A creche on the [...]

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Fire units battling Cork city blaze

I just heard on IRC that there’s a fire in Blackpool! I looked out the window but didn’t expect to see anything as we’re more than 8 6.25 miles (Thanks Christian!) away here in Ballincollig… Fire in Blackpool

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