While trawling through old hard drives I found this photograph of the Belfast Buoys on their original site in Cathedral Gardens, or as I believed at the time – the grounds of the Ulster University. Regeneration of the area around the University saw the buoys moved to the Abercorn Basin in Titanic Quarter, via DunLaoghaire …
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Rain in Belfast
There’s Only Seven Types of Rain in Belfast – Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday …. says the neon sign at The Duke of York Bar in Commercial Court. It’s not as bad as that but and on a chilly wet November evening it can feel like it is.
Time between buses
I was able to stand on a traffic island in High Street and wait for these buses to pass.
The difficulty is capturing surprise on film
The title is a quote from F. Murray Abraham. This image is from a Women Demand Better protest rally in Belfast on 29 October. Everyone seemed in good spirits although it was one of those miserable rain all day days with rain interspersed with periods of light drizzle. The days you don’t realise how wet …
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Cathedral Quarter
Exchange Court, Cathedral Quarter. Under the archway you can see Donegall Street and if you were to turn right you would come to St Anne’s Cathedral and Writers’ Square in a couple of hundred yards.
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 …
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 …
Look the Other Way
Two images, from the same place on a stony stretch of shore on the Antrim Coast, but looking in opposite directions.