Similar to an earlier photograph this photo is also of a dock in Charlottetown Newfoundland. This is the last of the photographs I’ve selected for Peoples Photography 2009 and it made it into the selection because I could not pick between the two. I liked both, one landscape one portrait. One with a closer view of the dock, one with more detail in the clouds and water. Which one I prefer depends on the mood I’m in so in the end I decided to include both. In fact looking at them now I prefer this one.

20 photographs will be displayed at any one time so I have 5 spares in case I sell any and in case I get bored looking at some particular photographs.

Cabot Tower stands on Signal Hill above St Johns in Newfoundland. The tower was built in 1897 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of John Cabot’s discovery of Newfoundland and later became historic in it’s own right when it was used as a Marconi wireless station. It was on Signal Hill that the first transatlantic signal was received in 1901 and the first wireless transatlantic transmission of a human voice was received here in 1920. The wireless station operated until 1958 and is now part of a Canadian National Historic Park and is still used for transmissions by the local amateur radio society.

I’ve mentioned before that Newfoundlanders seem to like building structures in the strangest places. Boat sheds on shaky looking jetties or supports are one thing but would you build your lake front house  as a lake top house? This is a house from Trinity East precariously balanced on the edge of the waterfront. I imagine a some times when the tide is in or there is heavy rain you can fish from your kitchen table. Lovely house, lovely area but just a touch crazy.

The Poolbeg power-station as seen from the Sean O’Casey pedestrian bridge. A new bridge is being built  this bridge and the East Link bridge in the distance and Poolbeg power-station is being decommissioned in 2010 so I don’t know for how long more we will have a view like this. Many people may welcome a change to the skyline and the removal of the chimneys but I think it will be a shame to loose them and to loose clouds of white smoke that rose from them from time to time.

The Dublin Docklands are the center of new development around Dublin city center. The IFSC, the O2 Arena, the National Conference Center, many hotels offices and apartments. An area of Dublin that was run down for years and has been undergoing development during the Celtic Tiger era. I like this side of Dublin and think it has great potential though it does not attract as many people at weekends and evenings as the city center. Parts of the city center are getting very run down and need redevelopment, old is nice but derelict is a bit of an eye sore.

Not Newfoundland this time but our own Trinity in Dublin. Trinity college is much older than Trinity town. The college was established in 1592 the  town was built around 1720.  In fact the college is almost as old as colonial Newfoundland itself. St Johns was established by royal charter from Queen Elizabeth I in 1583. Trinity College was established 1592, again by Queen Elizabeth I.