Balloons

Cork City, Ireland.

Smoker

Cork City, Ireland.

This particular image was shot with the Ricoh GRD lll. Its a beautiful little camera, well built and very discreet.

Flight

Cork City, Ireland.

Another one taken with the X100.

Tourists in Vienna!

Vienna, Austria.

Japanese tourists in Vienna, Austria. Austria was the first country i visited on my stint around Europe 5 years ago, seems like a lifetime ago now. It was bloody hot there and it gave me false hopes as to what the weather would be like for the rest of the holiday.. It pretty much rained all the time from here on...........

Vatnajokull Glacier

Vatnajokull National Park, South East Iceland.

Taken on a trip i made to Iceland last June. Unfortunately i never managed to get a chance to walk on the actual glacier, hopefully next time.

Into Darkness

Cork City, Ireland.

Recently, after a quite long period of time, i took my 5D MKll out of its bag and did some night work, with the beautiful 35mm f1.4 L attached. I suppose i missed shooting with this piece of kit and i forgot how good it's low light performance is.

Another thing i noticed recently when working on images in Lightroom was that, 2011 was a year in which i took the least amount of photographs in 5 years. My new years resolution, to take more photographs.

BTW, Happy New Year.

London ART

London, England.

Another shot taken with the Fuji X100. Shortly im going to post landscape work, i think variation is a good thing or at least it can be a good thing..

London

London, England.

London - Fuji X100 - Part 3

London, England.

I was very very lucky when i was in London last, i was gifted with some beautiful light to play it... Soooo, one issue i had with the Fuji X100 was focus speed, some shots that i really needed to grab fast i missed due to the camera just being that bit to slow to get a focus. Thats a pain, a "f**k sake" type feeling. Tonight Fuji have released the the v1.11 firmware update that apparently addresses this very issue, along with 2 others.. The issues addressed can seen and firmware download can be gotten here.

Our Lady's Hospital, Cork

Cork City, Ireland.

Unfortunately due to new security measure s in place at St. Annes, access was limited. The following extract is taken from http://www.abandonedireland.com. "Cork asylum opened in 1789 (the second Irish asylum). William Saunders Hallaran (1765-1825) was physician to the Cork asylum from the time it opened until his death. He was the author of Practical Observations on the Causes and Cure of Insanity (1818). In 1845 the Irish Lunatics Asylums Act allowed for appropriating the Lunatic Asylum in the city of Cork to the Purposes of a District Lunatic Asylum. This legislation provided for two new asylums - a criminal one in Dundrum, Dublin, and a 500-bed asylum Cork. The Eglington Asylum, was originally in three separate blocks, later to be joined together, in the interest of providing more accommodation, to become the longest facade of any building in the country it opened 1852. The asylum was named after the Earl of Eglinton, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Designed by local architect William Atkins. Construction cost including site £79,827. 1/5d. Eglinton Lunatic Asylum is being renovated into apartments - "Atkins Hall". Approxamately two thirds of the building has been converted, the remaining one third is gutted but in fairly original condition."