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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 7h

The Long White Museum The Museu de les Ciències in Valencia is a spectacular sight. Santiago Calatrava’s building goes on for a long way, a row of white concrete ribs and arches with a wide flight of steps at one end […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

The Museu de les Ciències in Valencia, a long white building of repeating concrete ribs and arches with a wide flight of steps at its right end, under a cloudless deep blue sky; a large sign reading "MUSEU DE LES CIÈNCIES" stands at the far left, a white dome marquee and parked vehicles sit beneath the arches, and a pool smoothed by a long exposure fills the foreground.

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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

Cash Point Companion Two people were taking out cash but the doggy was keeping an eye on the crowds walking past, and probably looking for other dogs as they were a common sight on the streets of Valencia […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

A man in a white T-shirt and denim shorts leans into a cash machine set in a large round yellow surround on a black wall, holding a wallet and a green plastic bag in one hand, while his tan dog in a blue harness stands between his legs looking at the camera with its tongue out; to the right, a woman in a black-and-white patterned dress, carrying a black handbag and a turquoise shopping bag, uses a second cash machine in a matching yellow surround.

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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

The Puddle Mirror A puddle covered most of the floor of the car park at the Kingsley Hotel and luckily no cars drove through it while I had my camera down low by the water’s edge. I love how this came out. ... inphotos.org/2026/10/20/the-puddle-… […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

Underground car park at the Kingsley Hotel in Cork, its floor covered by a wide, still puddle that mirrors concrete pillars, fluorescent ceiling tubes and a row of parked cars; on the left a yellow-painted stairwell lit warm orange has a green sign reading "EMERGENCY EXIT ONLY" and a small green exit sign above, both reflected upside down in the water, while the rest of the space is lit by flat white light.

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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Last Light on Shandon I stopped at the corner of Cattle Market Avenue as the evening sun dropped behind the rooftops. The street was already in shade. What light was left fell on Shandon’s tower, clock and gold salmon included, and on a Lidl Connect billboard on […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

Evening view up a shaded street in Cork towards the bell tower of St Anne's Church, Shandon, with its clock face, red door and gilded salmon weathervane in sunlight against a clear blue sky; overhead cables cross the frame, a white building with a dormer window stands in the middle, and on the left a sunlit Lidl billboard shows a smiling grey-haired couple looking at a phone, with the text "Media", "ow.", "LIDL CONNECT", "account - up to 3 additional SIMs at €12.99 each" and "T&Cs: lidl.ie/connect", above a wall sign reading "CATTLE MARKET AVENUE"; shopfronts below read "SAMPSON", "Mobile phone repairs and accessories" and "Lyc", and a red shopfront on the right carries the word "TATTOO".

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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

The Roar and the Indifference Today started early with a drive to Killarney before sunrise. I got there a few minutes after 7:30am and in the cold donned wellies and wrapped up well. Soon the world started to brighten and sooner still I regretted wearing wellies […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

A red deer stag with a large set of antlers roars with his head raised among about eight hinds in tall golden grass, lit by low sun, with dark woodland behind and a tree whose leaves are starting to turn orange.

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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Flamenco by Appointment On a team meetup in Madrid in 2017, a group of us went to see flamenco dancing at Cardamomo. The dancer spun fast enough to blur, with two guitarists, a singer and two men clapping behind. I’m not sure what I expected, but it didn’t move […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

A flamenco dancer in a pale pink ruffled dress and fringed shawl spins in a blur on a small blue-lit stage, with two guitarists, two men clapping and a woman singing seated behind, signs reading "CARDAMOMO TABLAO FLAMENCO" on the back and side walls, and the dark outlines of the audience at tables with glasses of wine in the foreground.

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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

No Parking, Plenty of Moorings Walk down the road from Man Friday in Kinsale, and you’ll come to a fork in the road with lots of boats on the water beyond. ... inphotos.org/2026/10/16/no-parking-… #Cork #CountyCork #DoubleYellowLines […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

A narrow tarmac lane with double yellow lines on both edges runs downhill between a dark hedge and a grey rendered wall, and splits left and right at a low stone wall above Kinsale harbour, where a marina full of moored yachts and their masts fills the water under a pale evening sky, with green hills on the far shore and a slate-hung house on the left.

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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Last Light at the End of the Peninsula It was turning out to be a disappointing sunset as there was so much cloud, and it was getting dark quickly, not great when you’re balancing on the hill going down to Dunquin Pier. Luckily, there was a break in the clouds […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

Sunset over the sea at the end of the Dingle Peninsula, with a dark, steeply layered rock cliff in the left foreground and a grassy headland on the right, orange light breaking through a gap in heavy grey cloud, its reflection spreading across the water, a small yellow buoy floating in the bay and a low island on the horizon.

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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Hagia Sophia from the Fountain I walked through Sultanahmet Park on a bright October afternoon while clouds moved quickly over the Hagia Sophia. The fountain in the middle of the park was a pleasure to watch and lots of people were enjoying it, taking time to […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

The Hagia Sophia in Istanbul under a bright blue sky with large white clouds, seen across the fountain in Sultanahmet Park, with two slender minarets, a scaffolding tower beside the main dome, autumn trees and crowds of visitors around the rim, and jets of water rising from a turquoise basin patterned with dark blue tile.

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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Tritons in the Dark The Triton Fountain in Valletta, Malta. It’s an impressive artwork, but all the better when it’s lit up at night! ... inphotos.org/2026/10/13/tritons-in-… #2019 #BronzeSculpture #fountain #LongExposure #Malta #Mediterranean […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

Triton Fountain at night: three bronze Tritons hold up a large round basin with water spilling from its rim, above a circular stone base carved with rounded lobes and lit warm from below; long-exposure jets of water arc across a pool lit bright turquoise, with street lamps and buildings behind and a dark, cloudy sky overhead.

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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Upside Down on Kennedy Quay I took this in January 2018 on Kennedy Quay, after rain had left wide puddles across the broken tarmac. The same photo now would only show blue sky and clouds as the R&H Hall building has since been demolished […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Cobh on St Patrick’s Night I watched the St Patrick’s Day fireworks in Cobh this year from across the water. This must have been at the start of the event as the boat firing the fireworks drifted quite far down the harbour by the time it finished […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

Green and pink-white fireworks fan out from a single launch point on the water in front of Cobh at night, with St Colman's Cathedral's tall spire on the left, rows of lit houses rising up the hill behind the waterfront, and coloured reflections on the calm harbour.

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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Before the Walls Went Up I took this from across the river in August 2019, looking at Holy Trinity Church on Father Mathew Quay. The floodlights were on, and the water was still enough to reflect the whole spire. The river walls along this stretch have been […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

Holy Trinity Church on Father Mathew Quay in Cork at dusk, its floodlit Gothic façade and tall lantern spire beside the red-and-cream striped stone friary, with a row of parked cars along a low quay wall and a 1960s-style office block on the right, all reflected in the still water of the River Lee under a blue sky of broken cloud.

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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

A Robin in the Castle Grounds Way back in April 2022 I came across a robin in the grounds of Blarney Castle. He watched me for several moments and seemed untroubled by my presence, so I got a few shots off before he flew off! […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

A European robin perches on a branch covered in moss and grey-green lichen and faces the camera head-on, its orange breast lit by sunlight, with blurred mossy branches and a pale blue sky behind it.

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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

The Watcher by the Wall I found this stag at the edge of a field in Killarney National Park in October 2022, standing under an old tree behind a mossy stone wall. I think we were just headed for a late breakfast when someone spotted him in a field off the road […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

A red deer stag with wide antlers stands under an old, gnarled tree in a bright green field, looking straight at the camera, his brown coat wet and matted, behind a mossy stone wall, a wooden fence post and a single strand of wire, with yellow ragwort and dried seed heads in the foreground.

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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Salamah on Sullivan’s Quay In August 2022 the gable at the corner of Sullivan’s Quay and Drinan Street carried Joe Caslin’s portrait of Salamah, a woman seeking asylum in Ireland, with two huge hands held over her head like a roof. It was part of A Story of Home […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

A large black-and-white mural on the white gable end of a building in Cork shows a smiling woman in a hijab, framed by two giant hands that meet above her head like a roof, with a geometric star pattern behind her. A no-parking sign on a pole beside the wall reads "Aon am AT ANY TIME". In the foreground a woman in a pink hijab and a patterned dress pushes a black buggy across the road, and further back a young woman in shorts walks along the footpath looking at her phone.

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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

A Pathway Below the Waterline At low tide the Thames drops several metres and leaves a wide strip of shingle below the Oxo Gallery on the South Bank, scattered with broken brick. I wondered about this framed pathway was going into the river. It’s only visible at […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

A section of old cobbles set into a weathered timber frame lies exposed on the shingle of the Thames foreshore at low tide, with a puddle beside it and a gull standing at the far end by the water. The shore is scattered with fragments of red brick and dark stones. Across the river, barges are moored in front of trees and Victorian buildings, the dome of St Paul's Cathedral rises on the right above Blackfriars Bridge, and the timber posts of a jetty stand in the water on the far right under a blue sky with white clouds.

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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

A Dog on Watch It was really nice on South Bank in London. The sun was shining and the crowds had yet to descend on the area we were walking along. That dog was on alert though, watching everyone walk by. ... inphotos.org/2026/10/04/a-dog-on-wa… […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

A woman with long dark hair and a denim shirt sits at a wooden picnic table looking at her phone, a lilac dog lead looped around one hand, while a small cream fluffy dog in a harness stands by her feet looking towards the camera; folding deckchairs printed with "KERB" stand in the foreground, and a red poster reading "UNDER 25?" with a downward arrow hangs on the black wall behind.

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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Rock, Glass and Concrete We walked across this footbridge, passing over a busy road but what caught my eye was the apartment blocks looming ahead. ... inphotos.org/2026/10/03/rock-glass-… #2026 #Alicante #ApartmentBlocks #Architecture […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

Black-and-white view along a narrow wooden footbridge with tall, curved white side walls, one marked with two graffiti tags, leading towards a sunlit rock wall where two people with backpacks are walking; above the wall stand several apartment blocks with balconies and lowered striped awnings, one of them covered in scaffolding, with a glass lift tower and steps at the foot of the wall, palm trees on the right and a nearly black sky overhead.

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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

A Soft Sunset over Alicante The sun had already gone down over the port at Alicante when I took this, leaving a band of orange over the cranes that faded into clear blue. There were no clouds to catch the light of the sun that had already fallen below the […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

Alicante at dusk from above the rooftops, with an orange glow on the horizon fading into a clear blue sky, a tall tower block with a lit sign on its roof, a domed church with a bell tower, the sea and port cranes in the distance, and a narrow lamp-lit lane with a palm tree and a few people walking down it in the foreground.

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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Orange Against the Blue Alicante was still hot in late September, and the shade by the port didn’t reach far. A woman stepped out of it with her orange umbrella already up, tilting it against the sun as she walked. I could have done with an umbrella TBH. Local […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

A woman in white with a sun visor and a green backpack walks out of a shadow on a paved promenade, raising a bright orange umbrella against a deep blue sky; behind her are palm trees, white buildings with round porthole windows and a sign reading "marsal team, sail & expe", a grey car with a partial plate reading "5 NGR", a blue Volkswagen electric car with the plate "D-NG 217E", and a white Iberdrola charging unit with the word "IBERDROLA" and graffiti tags.

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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

A Ring of Shade Above the promenade at El Postiguet in Alicante is a walkway to the town where you can find a neat place to photograph passing people against the cubed background. Those ground tiles remind me of Q*bert or Marble Madness which I’ve only seen but […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

Black-and-white high-angle view of a plaza paved in tumbling-block tiles that look like stacked cubes, framed by the curved shadow of a large white tubular structure overhead; a man in a white cap and vest walks past two women talking, a small group crosses at the bottom of the frame with long shadows, a couple walks away at top right, and a signpost beside a shrub reads "EL POSTIGUET".

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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Building Season in Blackrock The sun went down behind Páirc Uí Chaoimh and turned the sky a deep orange. The construction cranes in the background are building massive apartment blocks that will change the face of the area once residents move in. A far cry from […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

Silhouette of the Páirc Uí Chaoimh stand roof angling across the upper left of a deep orange sunset sky, with two tower cranes, scaffolding on a building site, a street lamp and a tree silhouetted along the skyline and gulls flying between the cranes.

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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Lines on Lines The sun was high in Alicante, but the tall buildings and narrow streets cast deep shadows I took advantage of. The horizontal lines of this primary school had to be black and white. I looked it up on Google Maps and found it here, but if you look […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

A man in a black T-shirt, shorts and backpack walks along a sunlit pavement beside a long wall of horizontal wooden slats that throw striped shadows, below large metal letters reading "COLEGIO PUBLICO SAN R" with the rest of the name cut off by the frame, in black and white.

A street in Alicante, from Google Street View in 2008. Lots of cars in a car park.

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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Everyone’s a Photographer in Óbidos Óbidos in September was full of day-trippers, and most of them were taking photos of the same narrow street. The street is filled with people and little shops and it’s very pretty […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

A Ledge in the Sun A moment after yesterday’s photo of Óbidos I spotted a man taking a break in the sun. There were a lot of people about so I don’t blame him for wanting to take a moment to sit down. ... inphotos.org/2026/09/26/a-ledge-in-… […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

A grey-haired man in sunglasses, a brown T-shirt reading "NEW RECORDS" and "YOUR COLLECTIVE TEAM", and blue shorts sits on a raised stone ledge against a bright yellow and white wall, with blue earphones in and a folded map in his hand, while two men in shorts stand on the cobbled street beside him looking towards a doorway.

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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

In The Heat of the Day It was very hot in Óbidos, and this couple had settled against a low parapet with their dog stretched out on the paving beside them. I would have gone looking for shade. I only noticed later that the woman was wearing a denim jacket! I […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

A man in a red T-shirt and black shorts leans against a low whitewashed parapet in bright sun, beside a woman in a denim jacket and sunglasses sitting on a stone bench, while their tan dog lies flat on the stone paving beside a black bag; a large white wall with a thick ochre-yellow border fills the left half of the frame, with a clear blue sky, green trees and town battlements to the right.

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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

I ♡ Alicante I stayed on the roof after the sun set. There wasn’t much cloud in the sky, but a haze on the horizon caught the glow of the disappeared sun and lit up the edge of that expanse. Soon after, a neon sign lit up on the roof of a building opposite […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

The sky over Alicante after sunset, orange at the horizon fading to purple above, with the city's rooftops in silhouette, including a church bell tower and dome on the left and a tall tower block in the centre. On a nearby rooftop terrace, a neon sign reading "I ♡ Alicante" glows yellow and pink beside a lit doorway, with wall lamps, an open parasol, sun loungers and chairs.

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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

A Pencil Box in the Gallery Alpino is a Spanish brand of school colouring pencils, and here the box had been blown up to the size of a door and hung in the MACA’s temporary exhibition on colour. I really enjoyed visiting the Contemporary Art Museum of Alicante […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

A woman with short blonde hair, a white T-shirt and a turquoise patterned skirt stands with her back to the camera in a white gallery, looking at a large framed painting of a coloured pencil box lid; a row of pencils in red, white, yellow, orange, pink, brown, green and blue runs along the top, and below it the word "Alpino" is written in red over an Alpine scene of snowy peaks, fir trees, a pair of ballroom dancers, a knife and a giant red pencil signposted "10 Km".

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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Blue and Green in Óbidos The white wall with its thick blue trim caught my eye in Óbidos. I love that blue colour. I love to see matching colours too, so I was delighted to see matching green, and then the man in the blue polo shirt. Matchy-matchy! […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

Two women in green tops walk along a cobbled street in Óbidos past a long white wall with bright blue trim along its base, top and curved pillars; one woman wears a long blue, green and white patterned skirt and eats from a small cup, the other wears a cream skirt and holds a phone, and both look up to the right, while a man in a blue polo shirt, cap and sunglasses walks behind them, with a stone wall and other visitors in the background.

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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

The Óbidos Cat Óbidos has a castle and a full circuit of medieval walls, but plenty of people were stopping for the cat instead. He lay on his back on the cobbles in the middle of the street, happy with a rub behind the ears and a few words from anyone who bent […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

A calico cat with orange and brown tabby patches lies stretched out on its side on sunlit cobblestones in Óbidos, one front paw curled up and the other reaching towards the camera, while people in white trainers and sandals stand just behind it.

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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Which Way Now? A tourist stopped to check her map, standing in the sun outside the walls of Óbidos Castle. Deep shadows surround her, where I preferred to stand, out of the heat of the sun. ... inphotos.org/2026/09/19/which-way-n… #CastleWalls […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

A woman in a cream sun hat, red jumper and black trousers stands at the foot of a tall stone corner of Óbidos Castle, looking down at a map in her hands with a brown bag on her shoulder, while a large shadow falls across the wall to her left and cobbles fill the foreground.

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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Óbidos from the Ramparts Trees provide shade just inside the town walls of Óbidos in Portugal and a couple sat in a net hammock to enjoy the view. The sun was bright in the street but under the shade it was pleasant […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

A couple lie side by side in a rope net hammock strung inside a wooden frame on a cobbled terrace on the town walls of Óbidos, shaded by a large plane tree, with whitewashed houses, terracotta roofs and a church spire below and wooded hills in the distance.

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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

The Flower Is Watching Near South Bank in London you’ll find a CCTV camera disguised as a pixelated flower in a pot. Surely nobody would notice, right? Well, photographers notice! The pixel art was created by Invader, here’s more about it […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

A man in a light blue shirt and jeans, with a green bag over his shoulder, photographs a pixel-art tile mosaic of flowers in an orange pot with red, white and blue petals on a concrete wall on London's South Bank, beside real CCTV cameras mounted on the wall. To the left, a glass wall reflects the surroundings and reads "Cinemas", "BFI Mediatheque", "BFI Reuben Library", "BFI Shop" and "BFI bar & kitchen". Above, a signpost against a blue sky with white clouds points to "National Film Theatre", "Hayward Gallery", "Queen Elizabeth Hall", "Royal Festival Hall", "Festival Pier" and "Jubilee Gardens", and a blue sign on the wall reads "Keep clear Exit from emergency escape route".

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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

A Moment on the Cobbles Óbidos is a walled town north of Lisbon, all cobbled lanes and whitewashed walls. I spotted a street cleaner stopped for a moment waiting for her colleague to come down the road. I’d guess the straw hat over her headscarf is her own and […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

A street cleaner in a straw hat, headscarf and hi-vis yellow and navy uniform with "pre zero" printed on the back stands with a green broom beside a wheeled bin cart on a cobbled street, facing a curved whitewashed wall with a dark red base and a terracotta tiled top, below an older building with weathered plaster, stone-framed windows and pots of flowers.

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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Bus Stop, Valencia The doors were about to close when I glanced out and saw the men sitting at the bus stop waiting for another bus. ... inphotos.org/2026/09/15/bus-stop-va… #2023 #Advertising #BusStop #Candid #GalaxyS23Ultra #Kiabi #OliveOil […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

Two older men sitting on a bus shelter bench, seen from inside a bus through its open double doors, one in a white beard, glasses, olive gilet and tan trousers with a walking stick and a five litre bottle of olive oil at his feet, the other in a navy cap, an OXFORD sweatshirt and shorts with his legs crossed, behind them a Kiabi advert reading KIABI, la mode à petits prix, 9€ Jersey infantil, NUEVA TIENDA KIABI KIDS, C.C. Saler and Desde el 19 de octubre, with Valencian lettering on the door glass including NO VOS REC and EN LA PORTA.

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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Wings Up on Cornmarket Street A crow lifted off the top of the barrier around the old Paintwell shop on Cornmarket Street, Cork, as I approached to get a closer shot. Its friends had already departed, but this one was cleaning its feathers and only looked up a […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

A black crow caught mid-launch with both wings raised and legs trailing, in front of the rendered gable of a disused corner building carrying a faded yellow sign reading PAINTWELL and PÉINT MHAITH, a vertical PAINTWELL sign running down the corner, ivy spreading across the render, boarded upper windows, and blue steel site barriers across the front.

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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

A Break in the Doorway I spotted someone sitting in the doorway of a food truck in Rory Gallagher Place, Cork, and liked the contrasting colours of what I saw. ... inphotos.org/2026/09/12/a-break-in-… #ASICS #AxleStand #Cork #detail […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

Close crop of the rear corner of a mint green food truck jacked up on a black axle stand, with a chequer plate step, a block of untreated timber wedged into the open door frame, and a person's lower legs in black trousers and black ASICS trainers with yellow soles standing on red brick paving, a yellow and black cable ramp running across the foreground.

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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

25 years ago I was sitting at my desk in a small office in Ballincollig when John burst through the open doorway, “A plane has hit the World Trade Center!” The rest of the day was a blur, but someone found a TV and set it up in the next office, where John and […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Two Pairs of VEJA Two people walked by wearing VEJA runners. I didn’t notice at first, but it was only later at home I noticed the matching shoes. ... inphotos.org/2026/09/11/two-pairs-o… #Candid #CityStreet #Cork #footwear #Ireland #legs […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

Two people walking away across large grey paving slabs, cropped at the waist, one in beige cuffed trousers and white VEJA runners with red and blue trim, the other in light blue jeans and grey VEJA runners with a red rubber sole lifted mid-step, a green metal barrow leg at the left edge and a cast iron drain cover bottom right.

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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Two in bronze, two in cotton Two bronze women sit on a rock outside the National Theatre. Two people stand in front of them reading an inscription on the ground. The sculpture is Frank Dobson’s London Pride, originally made from the 1951 Festival of Britain […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

Black and white shot of two people standing with their backs to the camera, looking down at a bronze sculpture of two seated female figures on a rough stone base, outside a concrete building with large lettering reading "National Theatre"; empty wooden picnic tables sit on the paving to the left, and tower blocks rise behind the building.

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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

A Wheelie on South Bank The wheelie held for a good few seconds, front wheel up level with the rider’s chest as he rode past the person on the bench and then sped on by my side and on towards Waterloo Bridge on South Bank, London. I don’t remember seeing this in […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

A teenage boy in a black jacket and grey tracksuit bottoms rides a bicycle in a wheelie along a paved riverside path, front wheel raised level with his chest, while a young man in a grey hooded top and black jeans sits on a wooden bench a few feet away looking off to one side, with London plane trees, black café parasols, metal crowd barriers and a pale blue kiosk behind them.

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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Guarding the Beacon I walked up to photograph the Beacon and found a cow there first. It watched me carefully, judging if I was worthy of visiting the Baltimore Beacon. Or maybe it was just resting in the hazy sun of a warm afternoon in West Cork […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

A black bullock with a white face lying in grass on a clifftop headland, the tall white conical Baltimore Beacon rising directly behind it with a thin mast and dark ball at its tip, against a pale overcast sky, with gorse, heather and yellow wildflowers along the edges of the frame.

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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

Flowers on Wires Opera Lane has flower balls and wire butterflies strung on wires above the street, but I guess everyone else is used to them or didn’t notice them, looking down at their phones or walking along. I noticed, and my neighbour walking the street […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

Looking up a narrow pedestrian shopping street with rows of hanging decorations strung on wires between the buildings: large spherical balls of pink, yellow and orange flowers, and wire-frame butterflies and flowers in green, pink and yellow. The sky above is overcast grey with an orange construction crane visible in the distance. Purple banners on the buildings read "SPECSAVERS", "THERAPIE", "SKECHERS" and "OPERA LANE", with shopfront signs for "NEW LOOK" and "Hegarty". Shoppers walk along the paved street below and a woman in the foreground holds up a phone to take a picture.

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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Sunrise Over London I had a window seat flying into London recently. First flight of the day and I was treated to a fantastic sky!... inphotos.org/2026/09/06/sunrise-ove… #AerialPhotography #clouds #cloudscape #Dawn #flying #GoldenHour #London […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

Aerial view from an aircraft window at sunrise, looking out across an unbroken layer of low cloud that is rippled into long ridges running towards the horizon, lit gold and pink by a sun sitting just above the cloud tops behind streaks of higher cloud.

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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Gilding the Door on Popes Quay A man is repainting the front door of St Mary’s Dominican Church on Popes Quay. It can be easy to forget that massive buildings that have been there all the time need constant maintenance […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

A man in a black T-shirt with a tool belt stands on a scaffold tower in front of the towering panelled front door of St Mary's Dominican Church, painting it a deep yellow gold, framed by the pale limestone columns and cornice of the portico, with traffic cones and a red barrier at the steps below and a sign on the wall to the right reading "St Mary's Dominican Church" and "PLEASE USE SIDE ENTRANCE ON WEEKDAYS" with an arrow.

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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

The Photographer and the Cliff The cliff below the Baltimore Beacon drops a long way, and the only way to show that was to put a person at the top of the frame. Luckily, a fellow photographer was busy doing the same thing I was doing. I walked over afterwards […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

A tall cliff face of folded grey rock streaked with lichen and tufted with grass and heather, with a small figure in a cap and blue top standing at the very top edge beside a tripod, looking down, and the flat blue-green sea filling the strip above the clifftop.

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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

The Drinks Queue The Cure came on in full sun, which is not the weather anyone associates with them. While waiting for the line for the bar to move on, I turned round to photograph the crowd. A sea of people stretched all the way to the distant trees and a manor […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

A large festival crowd in a park on a bright summer evening, with people in the foreground queuing for drinks and facing away from the stage, including a bearded man in a black bucket hat and a patterned shirt turning towards a woman in a black one-shoulder top holding a plastic pint of beer, thousands more people stretching back towards the stage rigging and a row of white marquees and signs reading "TOILETS", "FEMALE", "MALE" and "MEDICAL + WELFARE", with mature trees and a large grey house under a clear blue sky behind.

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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

The Beacon Through the Gorse I got down low in the gorse to photograph the Baltimore Beacon, so most of the frame is flowers and wire rather than the beacon itself. A few groups came and went as I photographed the Beacon, but I don’t think any of them stooped […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

The white-painted Baltimore Beacon stands on a clifftop in West Cork, seen from low down through a foreground of yellow gorse flowers, with a weathered concrete fence post and barbed wire on the right, a small figure standing near the base of the beacon, and the sea and a low headland beyond under a hazy sky.

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