Happy Valentine’s Day. A graffiti heart from a pillar on Bank of Ireland College Green.
Dublin
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It’s been a busy few weeks and I haven’t had a chance to take photos. It’s a shame because I started the year with great intentions of shooting and posting more often. Perhaps I need to be less picky and just take photos of whatever is around and post them. Not that I want to start flooding my blog with daily rubbish pics but some more relaxed ones like this photo taken while waiting for a bus outside Trinity College. One good thing about Dublin Bus is you gave plenty of time to take photos while waiting for them.
Ernest Lights
The Christmas lights are down on Grafton St but some of the side streets off Grafton still have lights up and my favorite every year have to be the lights on Johnson’s Court. The lane has several nice jewelery shops on it plus a little church on the right. It’s completely different from the Grafton St hopefully it will keep some of its character but I fear the shops on it may suffer and close in the recession while international chains move in around the corner.
Samuel Beckett Bridge
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.
Remains of Christmas
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.
The Temple Bar
It’s been a busy couple of weeks so I havent had a chance to get back to my photos until tonight. Here is one from a few weeks ago in Temple Bar after a rain shower when there were puddles in the cobblestones which reflected the neon sigh of The Temple Bar pub.