The Quoile River, Downpatrick
The Quoile
Festival of Fools
A celebration of street entertainment over the Mayday holiday weekend. The festival is the largest comedy and street theatre festival in the country, taking place mostly in Cathedral Quarter but also throughout the city.
It was a dull wet day and I have desaturated some of the colours to add atmosphere.
SoundYard
The SoundYard is created from metal tubes and reproduces noises similar to the sounds that would have emanated from the Harland and Wolff Shipyard. It can be found on the river side of SSE Arena.
New lens
Trying out the Panasonic 20mm 1.7 lens by photographing the Salmon of Knowledge or ‘Big Fish’ at Donegall Quay.
Although new to me the lens was bought second hand from MPB. This is the second lens I’ve bought from them and they’ve both been fine. They seem to grade their stock modestly as both lenses I bought were described as ‘Excellent’ but were unmarked as far as I can see.
This image was taken at f2 at 1/6400 iso 200.
Hot Lips
Above the door of the Blackbox in Hill Street, Belfast. Not Photoshopped.
Antrim Coast Road
The Antrim Coast Road on a Spring day
Island Hill
Island Hill or Rough Island is a small island on Strangford Lough accessed by a causeway at low tide.
The Debater
Today the Anti Vaccination Passport people had another rally in Belfast, the last one of the year. I didn’t get any images I was happy with and I’ve already posted twice on these protests so here’s something different.
This guy was standing at the entrance to Corn Market inviting debate on children being taught to eat animals. He was happy to have his photograph taken and happy to put his opinion forward in a friendly, civilised way.
We need more people like him.
