#sony717 — Public Fediverse posts

How are you?

I would like to say I knew the sign in the background said, “How are you?” but it’s more likely I did not. I’m glad it worked out, and it just proves that you have to be ready to take the photograph when you’re doing street photography or you’ll miss the moment. In 2004, Ireland

https://inphotos.org/2025/12/20/how-are-you-2/
#2004 #Candid #coincidence #Cork #Ireland #PatrickStreet #PhoneCall #Photo #Photography #serendipity #Sony717 #StreetPhotography #UrbanPhotography

How are you?

I would like to say I knew the sign in the background said, “How are you?” but it’s more likely I did not. I’m glad it worked out, and it just proves that you have to be ready to take the photograph when you’re doing street photography or you’ll miss the moment.

In 2004, Ireland was in the midst of a mobile phone boom. The average Irish person was sending lots of text messages per month. The phones of the era were mostly Nokia models and early flip phones. The iPhone wouldn’t arrive for another three years. Making an actual voice call, as this woman is doing, was still the primary use of a mobile phone, rather than the app-launching, social-media-scrolling pocket computers we carry today.

A Life Well Lived

Portrait of a man outside a coffee shop on Daunt Square, Cork, in 2004.

https://inphotos.org/2025/12/19/a-life-well-lived/
#2004 #BlackAndWhite #Candid #CharacterStudy #Cork #DauntSquare #elderly #Ireland #Photo #Photography #portrait #Sony717 #StreetPhotography

A Life Well Lived

Portrait of a man outside a coffee shop on Daunt Square, Cork, in 2004.

In 2003, the Dutch submarine, Dolfijn, or Dulfun, visited Cork for a few days. I happened to be around town and spotted it from Kennedy Quay where I’d been photographing the ships, buildings and machinery.

When it left Cork, it headed to Mallorca. September in Cork is nice, but I wouldn’t mind a few days there in October!

https://inphotos.org/2024/10/14/hnlms-dolfijn-visits-cork/

#2003 #Boat #Cork #CorkHarbour #HorganSQuay #Ireland #Photo #Photography #quay #RiverLee #Sony717 #StreetPhotography #submarine