From a sunset to a sunrise. I missed my DART yesterday morning but it meant I had the platform to myself to watch this beautiful sunrise. I usually watch it from the train but as you can see from this next photo, the windows on the DART don’t give the cleanest of views:
I went to my parent’s house yesterday afternoon for lunch and while everyone else was watching Ireland’s ill-fated rugby match against France I slipped away to take a few photographs. I decided to go and visit an old haunt from my younger years, Mullins Hill, where I used to go wandering for hours. It’s a bleak little hill really, not much there other than rocks, ferns and gorse, but it has the most amazing panoramic views of Dublin and the Wicklow Mountains and it was perfect for teenage angsty dreaming.
This is how Eve reacted this morning to the news that Gingerpixel has been nominated for an Irish Blog Award in four categories:
Best Photoblog
Best Personal Blog
Best Designed Blog
Most Humorous Post (for the Garda Prank Call)
Thank you so much if you nominated me and if you want to check out all the nominees then Jason Roe has the full list over at his site. The finalists in each category will be decided based on how many votes they receive from the voting public (and if I might say, what a gorgeous bunch you are…is that a new haircut?) so I need your votes! It’s one vote per person per category so if you, and the members of your extended family, like my blog please cast your vote HERE. Oh, and just to clear up a misunderstanding from the previous round, you don’t have to be Irish to vote!
Voting ends on February the 16th at 5pm GMT, that’s next Friday, so don’t delay…
…because you don’t want this face on your conscience now do you?
Taken last Sunday just after noon believe it or not, the fog was really thick and cold and this little corner of Greystones was deserted. Spooky.
After my bouncy bridge happy accident the other night I wanted to experiment with some more long exposures. This was taken on O’Connell Street with my camera propped on the top of a bin so I could set the shutter speed to eight seconds and capture the light trails of the traffic. The larger version shows the ghostly pedestrian a little better.