Steam rising from the Heineken brewery in Blackpool is a common enough sight, with the accompanying smell familiar to anyone who lives near a brewery.
| Aperture | ƒ/9 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 113mm |
| ISO | 3200 |
| Shutter speed | 1/500s |
The Spanish coast of the Mediterranean is a sea of artificial light, making astrophotography pretty difficult to do, but it does make for interesting panoramas.
The original merged image is over 9,000 pixels wide and full screen, it’s great to zoom in and scroll around.
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 48mm |
| ISO | 400 |
| Shutter speed | 5s |
A rider and horse at the Dingle Races completes one lap of the track in August 2022.
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 132mm |
| ISO | 800 |
| Shutter speed | 1/1000s |
On a busy street in Valencia, I took photos of the passing traffic under a cloudy sky lit by the setting sun. Another tourist decided they wanted to photograph the same scene and somehow failed to see me crouched near my camera. It wasn’t until his companion shouted at him to move that he obliged and moved!
| Aperture | ƒ/16 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 35mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 10s |
I heard him say, “sorry”, when his dog barked and scared all the pigeons, but he did me a favour. The pigeons in Bishop Lucey Park weren’t doing much!
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 24mm |
| ISO | 1250 |
| Shutter speed | 1/500s |
Bishop Lucey Park in Cork is now a building site, but on this July day in 2023 it was just a quiet day in the city, with some cyclists, obviously.
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 75mm |
| ISO | 8000 |
| Shutter speed | 1/500s |
A man walking past the site of the old tax office on Sullivan’s Quay in Cork, last July.
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 75mm |
| ISO | 200 |
| Shutter speed | 1/500s |
A mural on a wall in Santa Barbara shows George Floyd, and his words, “PLEASE, I CAN’T BREATHE”.
The mural was painted by Griffin Lounsbury and Chad (Chadillac Green) Westmoreland. Here’s an article about the mural by a local newspaper.
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 32mm |
| ISO | 1600 |
| Shutter speed | 1/500s |
The Damrak in Amsterdam is a street in front of the main railway station of the city, where you can see the beautiful reflection pictured here.
If you’re lucky, the water will be as still as it was the night I photographed it. The reflections of the houses there are eye catching!
| Aperture | ƒ/8 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 36mm |
| ISO | 200 |
| Shutter speed | 4s |
Sometimes when out with your dog, they’re second in line for your attention after your phone.
| Aperture | ƒ/4 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 24mm |
| ISO | 8000 |
| Shutter speed | 1/500s |
I had no idea what make this car was when it drove past, but Google Images says it’s probably a Cadillac of some sort from the 1960s. It looked beautiful, whatever it was, and the guy driving knew it too.
| Aperture | ƒ/2.8 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 24mm |
| ISO | 100 |
| Shutter speed | 1/1000s |
As they say, “When you’re bored of ducks, you’re bored of life.” I hope he had an exciting evening when he finished work!
| Aperture | ƒ/4 |
| Camera | ILCE-7M3 |
| Focal length | 24mm |
| ISO | 2000 |
| Shutter speed | 1/500s |