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Gilding the Door on Popes Quay

https://inphotos.org/2026/09/05/gilding-the-door-on-popes-quay/

Gilding the Door on Popes Quay

https://inphotos.org/2026/09/05/gilding-the-door-on-popes-quay/

The Photographer and the Cliff

https://inphotos.org/2026/09/04/the-photographer-and-the-cliff/

The Photographer and the Cliff

https://inphotos.org/2026/09/04/the-photographer-and-the-cliff/

The Beacon Through the Gorse

https://inphotos.org/2026/09/02/the-beacon-through-the-gorse/

Sitting in the Sun at Bantry Market

https://inphotos.org/2026/08/31/sitting-in-the-sun-at-bantry-market/

Access at Own Risk

The rain was falling steadily as I photographed this sign on the Sheep’s Head peninsula.

Curious about the sign, I looked up The Anchorage and found this for sale page saying it was recently sold, but an archive.org copy from 2019 shows the seller was looking for €695,000 back then.

Feeder traffic at Carbery Cottage

https://inphotos.org/2026/07/24/feeder-traffic-at-carbery-cottage/

Lucky Leprechauns

https://inphotos.org/2026/07/18/lucky-leprechauns/

The Patient Hour at Santa Cruz

https://inphotos.org/2026/05/11/the-patient-hour-at-santa-cruz/

A Siamang and Her Little Passenger

https://inphotos.org/2026/05/06/a-siamang-and-her-little-passenger/

Eye of the Bison

https://inphotos.org/2026/04/27/eye-of-the-bison/

Forty on the Way Down

https://inphotos.org/2026/04/15/forty-on-the-way-down/

The Invisible Shift

A street cleaner with a bin bag in one hand, framed between a STOP sign and a no-right-turn sign. You couldn’t stage it better. I shot this from Drawbridge Street, watching the lunchtime crowd flow past him like water around a rock. What struck me was the contrast: dozens of people mid-stride, shopping or wandering around, and this one figure doing the quiet work that keeps the city ticking over.

His orange hi-vis jacket is the loudest thing in the frame, but he’s mostly unnoticed by everyone. The young lad in the camo jacket is walking towards me, a woman in a black top is mid-step, and behind the railings there’s a whole parade of shoppers who have no idea they’re in a photograph. I like that the two road signs bookend him: STOP on one side, no-right-turn on the other as if the street itself is giving him contradictory instructions. It’s one of those shots where the composition just fell into place, and all I had to do was not fumble the shutter.

An Fear Marbh Through the Storm

On a calm day you can sit on Clogher Beach and see An Fear Marbh lying peacefully on the horizon, its profile supposedly resembling a body laid out in repose. On a day like this, though, you’re lucky to see it at all. The swell was stacking up in layers, each wave tall enough to swallow the base of the island entirely, leaving just the dark ridge floating above a wall of spray and foam.

That golden light breaking through the cloud behind it was almost unfairly cinematic, the kind of scene where you fire off a dozen frames and hope at least one captures what your eyes were actually seeing. The Dingle Peninsula has no shortage of dramatic viewpoints, but Clogher looking west towards the Blaskets in rough weather is hard to beat.

The Cappagh Sentinel

The sun had risen about 40 minutes before and we were about to leave Cappagh Beach on the Dingle Peninsula when I saw a tree silhouetted against the sun.

Wish You Were Here

We stopped for a break in St. John’s Church Garden where I spotted an art installation mounted on a rotary clothes line. A bit eye-catching!

Wish You Were Here

We stopped for a break in St. John’s Church Garden where I spotted an art installation mounted on a rotary clothes line. A bit eye-catching!

Wish You Were Here

We stopped for a break in St. John’s Church Garden where I spotted an art installation mounted on a rotary clothes line. A bit eye-catching!

Wish You Were Here

We stopped for a break in St. John’s Church Garden where I spotted an art installation mounted on a rotary clothes line. A bit eye-catching!

Wish You Were Here

We stopped for a break in St. John’s Church Garden where I spotted an art installation mounted on a rotary clothes line. A bit eye-catching!

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The Wheels Go Around

I love when I spot something like this happening on the street. It happened near the London Eye where there’s a novelty photo booth shaped like a bus. Two kids were at the back, with one pointing at the wheels, and then they go and spin the wheels!

Going Underground at Piccadilly Circus

Every photographer who visits London takes a shot of Piccadilly Circus. It’s practically a rite of passage. The neon screens, the crowds, and the Eros statue somewhere off to the side are iconic. So is the famous UNDERGROUND branding seen all over the city so I wanted to get a mix of the two in this photo.

Sitting on a Sea Turtle in Piccadilly

We’re near Piccadilly Circus, there’s a big painted sea turtle sculpture on a blue plinth, part of a public art trail supported by Deborah Meaden and Steven Bartlett, no less, and absolutely nobody sitting on it is paying the slightest bit of attention to it. They’re all on their phones.

The star of the show for me is the person in the middle, who has gone full Union Jack: hat, bag, the works, paired with red tracksuit bottoms and a set of brightly coloured trainers that honestly deserve their own photo.

Love London for street photography!

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Silk and Stone at Couminole

Waves crash on the rocks at Couminole, Co Kerry but are made misty by a long exposure photo.

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Festive Commerce in Cork

Brown Thomas on Patrick Street, Cork, is all lit up again for Christmas. On Oliver Plunkett Street they’ve put up the usual decorations and they look fabulous!

#2025 #architecturalLighting #atmosphericLighting #brownThomas #christmas #christmasDecorations #christmasLights #cityCentre #commercialPhotography #communalCelebration #cork #decorativeLights #departmentStore #festiveAtmosphere #festiveDecoration #festiveLighting #festiveSeason #holidaySeason #holidayShopping #illuminatedFacades #ireland #irishCities #irishRetail #luxuryRetail #motionBlur #nightPhotography #oliverPlunkettStreet #patricksStreet #pedestrians #photo #photography #publicSpaces #retail #seasonalDecoration #shopping #shoppingStreet #sonyA7rv #storefront #streetLighting #streetPhotography #urbanChristmas #urbanRetail #windowDisplay

The new Bishop Lucey Park

I’m not a big fan of brown, and there’s a lot of brown in the new Bishop Lucey Park. I do really like what they did with the old wall. That’s the slightly rough-looking grass bit in the second picture of my gallery. The old park had this cut off from the public behind railings, with stagnant water collecting at the bottom. Now, it’s an area where people can sit on steps and walk around.

I love that the old entrance is still there and that they removed the railing running around the outside.

It’s disappointing to see that gravel was used so much. I imagine it has something to do with maintenance, but it would have been nice to see more grass. However, as it is now, there’s huge scope for holding open-air events there that aren’t beholden to the weather and wet grass.

It will look nice in the warmer months when leaves return to the trees. It was a missed opportunity to use more colour. What would a dash of colour do to the mood of the park?

I don’t hate it.

Look for it on Facebook and you’ll find nothing but complaints unfortunately: Echo Live 1, Cork City Parks Sport and Recreation, Cork City Council, Echo Live 2.

#2025 #bishopLuceyPark #contemporaryCork #cork #corkArchitecture #corkCityCentre #corkCityCouncil #corkDevelopment #corkHeritage #corkParks #corkPublicRealm #corkTransformation #gallery #ireland #irishUrbanPlanning #photo #photography #publicSpaceCork #sonyA7rv #streetPhotography #urbanDesign #urbanRegeneration #victorianCork

Holding Hands

Two hands intertwined, fingers gently clasped together as a couple watches the festivities unfold around them. The simple act of holding hands in public, something many take for granted, becomes a quiet celebration of love and belonging at Cork Pride.

While this year’s event was smaller than last year’s celebration (perhaps due to the absence of Eurovision star Bambie Thug, or simply the rising costs of travel), the energy remained undimmed. The parade began on Grand Parade before winding its way down St. Patrick Street, with dozens of people proudly carrying a massive pride flag that rippled in the hot, humid afternoon air.

After the parade, the community gathered at Kennedy Quay for the traditional after-party, where the real magic happened. Gay men danced together in the summer heat, some bare-chested, others waving colorful fans as they laughed and moved to the music. Same-sex couples like the one in this photograph stood hand in hand, watching the celebration with quiet contentment, expressing their love openly in a space where they felt safe to do so. These moments, the dancing, the hand-holding, the unguarded laughter, show exactly why Pride events are needed now more than ever.

The laughter, the energy, and the community were all so beautifully, defiantly joyful.

More photos from Cork Pride coming tomorrow.

#2025 #Cork #CorkCity #CorkEvents #CorkPride #CorkQuays #equality #holdingHands #Ireland #KennedyQuay #LGBTQPride #LGBTQRights #loveIsLove #loveWins #Photo #Photography #prideAfterParty #prideCelebration #prideFestival #sameSexCouple #SonyA7RV #StreetPhotography

The Sherkin Island Fishing Boat

A fishing boat with the registration code C353P sits moored in the low-tide mud in Sherkin Island. It sits opposite the island library and has been a feature of the island for as long as I remember. However, it was missing during a visit in 2017, and this gallery of Sherkin Island photos shows an empty space where the boat should be! A blog post here from 2016 shows the boat back in place, so maybe someone took the boat out during my visit in 2017?

Now I would like to know more about this boat. Who owns it? Does anyone take it out for a spin any more?

You’ll also find photos of this boat elsewhere, including this article about a Ukrainian family who settled on the island. It’s also featured in a painting created in 2012, but it’s sitting on a dock somewhere, possibly local.

#2025 #Boat #coastalLandscape #Cork #CorkCoast #fishingBoat #Ireland #IrishCoastline #lowTide #maritimeHeritage #mudflats #Photo #Photography #seaweed #SherkinIsland #SonyA7RV #tidalFlats #traditionalFishing

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An angel checks her phone and takes a photo during the Cork Pride parade last weekend.

https://inphotos.org/2024/08/10/an-angel-and-her-phone/

#2024 #angel #Cork #CorkPride #Ireland #Photo #Photography #SonyA7RV

I loved to see all the support for transgender rights at the Cork Pride Parade last weekend.

Mammies for Transgender Rights can be found on Instagram here.

https://inphotos.org/2024/08/09/trans-rights-baby/

#2024 #Cork #CorkPride #GrandParade #Ireland #Photo #SonyA7RV

One of the (many) highlights of the Cork Pride parade is the massive rainbow flag that accompanies the marchers through the city. It was unfurled on Grand Parade where a jubilant crowd carried it and waved it in preparation for the trip around the city. I noticed a bump in the middle, and saw the reason underneath. 🙂

https://inphotos.org/2024/08/07/the-cork-pride-flag/

#Cork #CorkPride #flag #GrandParade #Ireland #Photo #Photography #SonyA7RV #StreetPhotography

At the Cork Pride party today, Bambie Thug performed for the crowd, but came on stage proudly waving the transgender flag. The party was great, and the parade was full of energy, colour, smiles and happiness. If you missed it this year, make sure to go next year. It’s a great event!

https://inphotos.org/2024/08/04/bambie-thug-at-cork-pride/

#2024 #Cork #CorkPride #Ireland #KennedyQuay #Music #Photo #Photography #SonyA7RV