We caught this street quartet at several different places along Dublin's streets.
What made them so interesting was their presentation: the two on the left were intense in their listening; the guitar player accompanied the singer; the singer was incredibly loud, singing in a rap style, and incessantly pumping his right fist. It was a very interesting street spectacle.
3-shot handheld HDR;
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Tags: Dublin street singers rap loud intense street singing
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Powerful, quiet, and spectacular; driving in Ireland between Kinsale and Kenmare, southwest Ireland.
3-shot handheld HDR, finished in Photomatix Pro 4.2 and NIK Color Efex Pro.
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As always, interesting in Black.
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Bansha (Irish: An Bháinseach, meaning "a grassy place") is a village in the Galty Mountains in South Tipperary, Ireland. The village is part of the parish of "Bansha and Kilmoyler" (united in 1858) in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly. It is in the historical barony of Clanwilliam.
The day we drove through Bansha was extremely windy, and this churchyard just begged to be shown in b/w. The sky was a beautiful colour, but the wind was whipping the trees around, and since the church itself was deserted and empty, the scene presented itself as lonesome and somewhat eerie. Hence the B/W.
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Tags: Ireland Bansha churchyard cemetery eerie b/w
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The same image as the previous post - this time done in NIK Silver Efex Pro for comparison purposes.
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Castletownbere is the main town on Ireland's Beara Peninsula and was once a haven for smugglers. Just offshore, the Bere Island is so sparsely populated that it makes Castletownbere seem like a huge metropolis. For tourists, it’s really just a stop along the loop around the Beara Peninsula, but it does have one serious claim to world-wide fame.
The real thing sitting on the main street of Castletownbere is McCarthy’s Bar, yes, the same bar that features so prominently on the cover of Pete McCarthy’s bestseller ‘McCarthy’s Bar’. Inside it is immediately clear that there’s more to McCarthy’s than one would guess from the establishments name. To The right of the door is a cozy snug, where Cork families would meet to discuss marriage terms as recently as a generation ago.
To the left of the door is a small grocery where locals can find that important ingredient provided it’s in a tin, when all other convenience stores are closed. The bar itself sits near the back of the large room filled with unbelievable memorabilia, there is often lively music being played and a patron or two to exchange pleasantries with.
We stopped in here on a moist Sunday afternoon, when all else was closed; we chatted with a couple of local couples watching Liverpool soccer, and felt like we could stay there for a good long while, drinking tea and eating scones with jam and cream. A wonderful experience.
3-shot handheld HDR; as always, your comments are appreciated and try this one in Black.
Tags: Ireland Castletownbere McCarthy's Bar tea and scones soccer The Beara Peninsula
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