I often take photographs of signs. These attracted attention mainly because of the contrasting colours.
Private Property
Category: General
McLaren reflections
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 time when I reached into my bag I couldn’t find it. I had been using another bag over the previous few days and assumed I had forgotten to transfer the filter over so I took the picture and moved on. I later found I had transferred the filter over and it had been hiding under a divider in the bag. Not finding it left me more annoyed than when I thought I had forgotten it.
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 easy to transport these huge engines around the country.
This year it rained as usual but not until we were leaving.
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 to see them together to tell them apart.
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
Samson and Goliath
The two Harland and Wolff Shipyard cranes that tower over the city.
This image was taken some years ago. The red brick wall is no longer there and the railings have been replaced by a wire fence.
