A couple of weeks ago I came across this McLaren parked under some trees at Lagan House. It’s an impressive car. Viewers will quickly note the reflections, primarily on the windscreen, but also on the bonnet. A polariser filter would have prevented most of these reflections and I always have one with me but this …
Author Archives: J Orr
Final Approach
A Guillemot comes in to land on a rock off the Antrim Coast.
Boat To Let
The Boat Building, Queen’s Square, Belfast. The building is 14 storeys tall, 10 floors of grade ‘A’ offices with 8 luxury apartments above. It’s a striking building.
Steam Power
The Ulster Festival of Steam and Transport at Ballymena. We go most years and it always seems to rain. There weren’t as many steam engines as in previous years, probably down to Covid. I expect it will take a bit longer for events such as this to get back to normal and it can’t be …
Bangor Bowls
Bangor Open Bowls Tournament, July 2022. iPhone 8
Pickie to Pier
The Pickie to Pier swim in Bangor leaves Skippingstone Beach, just past the Pickie play area and finishes at the RNLI launch ramp at the base of Eisenhower Pier. It’s a distance of around 800 metres and about 200 swimmers take part. After a 30 year lapse the swim was relaunched in 2019. It was …
Samson or Goliath
Another photograph of a Harland and Wolff Shipyard crane, this time viewed through a gap in two apartment blocks. The two cranes, Samson and Goliath, dominate the Belfast skyline and are much photographed. Samson is the largest at 348 feet against Goliath at 315 feet. Unfortunately I don’t know which one this is. I need …
House Stark
A Glass of Thrones window. This one is House Stark and is located on Donegall Quay at the AC Hotel. Six of the windows are spread along the Maritime Mile