People’s Photography – Day 2

As we had breakfast we looked worriedly out the window at the threatening clouds. As we were packing the car, the clouds gave up with the threats and let us have it. The drive into town was filled with dread, thoughts of spending the whole day sheltering from the rain sitting in the corner like [...]

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People’s Photography – Day One

 
Day one was always the hectic day, the long days of wondering about the hanging strategy are over, the photos need to be hung and that’s all there is to it!
Rain threatened for most of the day but apart from a mild drizzle around midday we were very lucky, with a bit more luck we’ll [...]

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Today

We spent over an hour flying into a perpetual sunset until finally we descended into a Dublin nightscape, it’s been a good week
It’s been a long week, a week filled with getting up early and going to bed late, I’m sure all this sleep deprivation will catch up on me soon, perhaps tomorrow when I [...]

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Pieces of Amsterdam – Pimp My Bike

Another of my recurring themes here in The Netherlands is bikes, I find myself constantly fascinated by the variety of colours and shapes. This particular bike is very common, I think they’re based on the delivery bikes of old and they still are used as delivery bikes but now sometimes they deliver youngsters instead. The [...]

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Pieces of Amsterdam – Stained

There seemed to be themes running through the day’s photography and one of these was stained glass. The first building was on a street in the Jordan, this lovely blue glass with a variety of shapes and colours.
Lucky number 8:

Snakes?

One problem I had with taking photos of windows is that it’s hard not to become [...]

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Pieces of Amsterdam – Sign of the Times

I came home from Spain with a whole collection of pictures of shop signs and now I’ve collected a set of shop signs from Amsterdam. I think it’s because there’s so much latitude for creativity with these signs, the owner wants the sign to catch the eye, to convey the essence of the shop beneath…
This [...]

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Pieces of Amsterdam – Wall Art

The fascination with graffiti and wall art continues. I was on my way to an important meeting but then there was some arresting wall-art, it was tempting to stop and take pictures, though being such a responsible individual the art was saved until after the meeting…
Meeting over, it was back to the walls.
First up was [...]

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Pieces of Amsterdam – Puff Puff

One of the areas that I wanted to visit yesterday was the Jordan area, it’s a new trendy upcoming area that’s supposed to be the place to live, I think I’ll stick with Utrecht.
I did find an interesting piece hung from the temporary metal fencing around some construction work. I’m not sure if it was [...]

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Pieces of Amsterdam

One of my photography projects in Ireland was something I called “Pieces of Dublin” which was an effort to look at my home town in a new way and make taking photos there exciting again. It worked really well and I took some really nice pictures.
Today I took to the streets of Amsterdam to see [...]

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Is It Really Real?

There are times when I find myself caught in front of TV screen engrossed in the evil machinations of reality television though why they ever called it reality when there is nothing real about it, groups of individuals are gathered together in unreal situations and encouraged to perform so that we, the viewers, can observe [...]

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