Arbour Place, AKA Chicken Lane - Stoneybatter
Liffey Street
Daytime long exposure.
It's sometimes hard to remember we're in the middle of what's supposed to be high-summer.
This is a view I've been meaning to get for a while now. Not entirely happy with the results yet, but that's the process...
I love that quote from Beckett;
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Lynch's Place
Some I8th century time-travelers hiding out on Constitution Hill, Phibsborough.
An interesting point of local interest; the linear park behind these buildings is a nice spot for a ramble, especially as it leads to the wonderful Blessington Street Basin.
What may come as a surprise is that the basin used to be fed by a tributary of the Grand Canal, which ran along the route of where that linear park is now, as you can see from the map below. The location of the buildings in the photograph is marked with a red dot.
Looking out to town
From a rooftop carpark
Harcourt Street
Seems to be undergoing a bit of a resurgence at the moment is Harcourt Street. For many years numerous buildings, along the western side in particular, were left to quietly decay. Temporary steel structures held their flimsy frames together...many were little more than shells.
It's nice to see a new lease of life coming over the place. In terms of Georgian Dublin, it really is one of the most beautiful streets in the city.
Plot-rhythms, punctuated by white reveals...
Towards St. Andrew's Street
I love these little views in Dublin that give you a glimpse into the past. Externally these buildings have changed very little over time. Meanwhile we keep bustling by on our busy little ways...just like we always do.
More day-time experiments with long exposure photography
Glendalough Rd
If there's one thing I've learnt with my forays into nighttime photography, it's that I hate sodium street lamps, staining the sleeping city with their sickly, tobacco light.
Slowly, they're all being replaced by LEDs that give off a beautiful white light. I, for one, will not mourn their passing.
To the Gravediggers
AKA Kavanagh's, Prospect Square.
The tower on the left is one of many that surround the perimeter of Glasnevin Cemetery. The walls and towers surrounding the graveyard were built to help put an end to the roaring trade in grave robbery that blighted early 19th-century Dublin
Dublin anatomy schools and the Royal College of Surgeons required vast numbers of bodies for dissection. Adult remains fetched £2, while children's bodies were sold by the inch. Cadavers were, however, in short supply. Simple supply and demand; the situation created a lucrative prospect for the less discerning of Dublin's entrepreneurs of the time.
Prospect Square, eh?
It's an evocative part of town this...
Towards the Finglas Road
From the lane that leads to the Gravediggers. It's a lane oft-staggered...
The Tolka
Griffith Park
It's oh, so quiet...
It's oh, so still...
You're all alone...
And so peaceful until...