Twenty from Dublin

[RobertP]

I was in Dublin for the weekend and didn't find much to point the camera at! These are a mixture of wandering around doing the tourist thing and general shots of the people around me that seemed more interesting than the usual sights.

1 A few from the temple bar area

2

3 Could have been a lot better if I had been braver!

4 the Liffe is not the most photogenic river and I know the shot is a bit wonky.

5 There is this huge spike in the middle of the shopping area

6 it makes a good meeting point

7 Molly Malone in the street light and drizzle

8 Drizzly shopping street

9 Saw this guy in a few places over the weekend.

10 More people that can't be seen.

 

[RobertP]

11 cash point

12 smokers table

13 French girl working out where to post her card

14 Guinness factory tour of how it used to be made

15 the only way is up

16 The guinness harp

17 The free pint in the glass walled bar on the roof overlooking the town

18 Heads on poles!

19 molly by backlight, unfortunately

20 The invisible woman

 

[mmcp42]

quite a varied bunch of pics there
they tell a good story
you do seem to have covered a lot of the city
1, 4, 7 are the best of the bunch imho

 

[Dark Star]

No shots of Ronan Robert!!! I bet Jill has a few.

2, 7, 13 for me

Canada, Dublin....where next!!!

 

[cjlawton]

Robert,

Thanks for posting these, we lived in Dublin between 1999 and 2001 and these have brought back some memories.

Great images by the way.

Chris

 

[Janice]

Brought back some memories for me too!
When I first joined my work... nearly 8 years ago... all us girls went on a weekend to Dublin as our Christmas treat (never had one since so i clicked lucky)

Had a great time.......the River Liffe is my favourite Robert.

 

[Byrhtnoth]

Nice shots there RobertP
Liking No's 1,2,3 and 7 and no noise for 1600 iso

May I ask what lens you used for these shots?

 

[RobertP]

No shots of Ronan Robert!!! I bet Jill has a few.

To explain this... we went to Dublin because my wife is a Ronan Keating fan and bought a ticket to his wife's charity ball - where he was performing and of course guest of honour. I narrowly escaped having a ticket bought for me too and hence had the evening to wander the streets with my camera. One flaw in the scheme was it rained lightly all evening and kinda spoiled my plans. So I went out in the rain for a while then had a meal and some liquid refreshment and gave up!


All the night shots were the 50mm 1.4 which works wonderfully in not a lot of light

Thanks for the comments.

 

[chewyuk]

I have been to Dublin many times and don't actually recall much of the city being that photogenic either, that being said as a Welsh Rugby fan its probably due to the guiness consumption levels ...

Number 10 works for me as a shot, Mono

 

[sujay]

Love all of these, especially the ones of the invisible people. They are very atmospheric, love them all.

 

[dlgbzh]

Hi Robert,

I like :
#7 Molly Malone in the street light and drizzle.
the colours are very good, pity there's a bright area on the left.
Great shot anyway !

Denis
http://viaterra.net/photopages/ireland/Ireland-dublin.htm

 

[lee]

Thanks for sharing these Robert, all good and certainly brought back some memories from my rugby tours there in the past......... especially the Guinness factory where 2 of the bar maids clocked off and joined us for the evening, but thats another story.

cheers lee

 

[Mart61]

A whole bucnh of great shots! I love Dublin - wanna go back now, having seen those pics!

See you got a shot of "the stiffy by the liffey", "the stilletto in the ghetto", "the Rod to God", "the Erection at the Intersection"!

 

[Cobra]

4 the Liffe is not the most photogenic river and I know the shot is a bit wonky.

maybe a tad but I like it lots