I decided to take advantage of a long weekend and headed into town today to take some photos of the Beckett Bridge and play around with my ND110 filter which has gotten very little use since I bought it last year. I stopped to take some photos from further away and noticed that the it was possible to walk down the edge of one of the old dock buildings near the bridge. Someone has already been down there and sprayed some graffiti and the combination of the old brick work on this side of the river with the new construction on the other made for an interesting shot in B&W.

Today is the first day of 2011 and my first full day back in Dublin since the Christmas vacation so I decided to head into town to spend some vouchers I’d received. Unfortunately I forgot that since it’s New Years Day most of the shops were closed so I took some photos of instead. The Christmas decorations are still up in town though they are beginning to look a little worn as the season draws to a close. Still I got this photo of the Christmas tree at the St Stephens Green end of Grafton Street. Thankfully they still put up real trees there unlike that disco ball thing on O’Connell Street. Hopefully I’ll get into town again tomorrow or monday (a holiday here in Ireland) to take more photos.