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While on my way to Iceland a few months ago I had about 10 hours to kill while in London. Thankfully John Godley collected me at the airport and gave me a quick tour of the city centre!
I got loads of photos of the London Eye, here’s one of them.
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The taoiseach of Ireland, Enda Kenny was in Galway to announce 200 new jobs for Merit Medical Systems.
I took some photographs of the new Merit Medical Systems building last year as it was being built, they can be found here and here.
I managed to get some photographs of him leaving the Merit Medical Systems building and entering his car. I only had a few seconds so shot in continuous drive. I didn’t get any proper portrait so decided to play around with what I had and came up with this collage.
Post title is taken from the song V.I.P, from the very enjoyable new album How About I Be Me (And You Be You).
My blog post yesterday was my most viewed blog post to date, with over 1,000 page views yesterday alone.
It really was a case of lucky timing and a bit of work as well.
On Tuesday I had a day off work and was wandering around Galway. I was strolling through Eyre Square, decided to visit the Occupy Galway camp and document it through photographs. Little did I know that the gardaí would raid/’dismantle’ the camp that very night. I was also lucky that I posted the photos here the same evening, if I had left it for a day or two the Occupy Galway camp would have been yesterdays news.
When I found out the next morning that the camp had been dismantled I tweeted my photographs & also tweeted several media organisations saying that I had possibly the last photographs of the camp. Several replied asking if they could use my photographs and many people retweeted my tweet of the photographs. My photographs were used by The Irish Examiner (online), Breakingnews.ie, Thejournal.ie, The Galway Advertiser.ie Facebook page and more. I was even trending on Twitter(!).
Below is some of the coverage my photographs in the media:
Post title are lyrics taken from the song ’15 minutes’ by the band Sheep On Drugs (great band name).
The workings underneath
Another exploration of an abandoned building. This time we didn’t stray too far – just into Navan to visit the Blackwater Mill. It has been abandoned for a long time and was gutted by fire a couple of years back. Situated on the banks of the River Blackwater it must have been an imposing structure in it’s day. Not much left now apart from the walls and the blackened beams.
Outer walls and the burnt timbers
There’s still a few little dark places under all the rubble if you can find your way in. We found what seems to be the heating system or a drying area. Beautiful old arched brick rooms surrounding a furnace which fed heat upwards through tiles with holes.
Brickwork arches around the furnace.
Oh and we weren’t the only visitors there that day. On our way in we met a couple of kids on their way out. They too had cameras :-)
Got there before us....
In 2005.
Here is the evidence:
Standing on Torr Head, County Antrim on a warm sunny August day.
Looking towards Fair Head with Rathlin Island off to the right.
I need some of that sunshine now, to warm my bones.
Update to post-
The last Occupy protest camp in the country has been dismantled by gardai and council chiefs. Officials moved in to remove Occupy Galway activists from Eyre Square at about 4.30am on Wednesday. Galway City Council had raised concerns that the camp should be removed before the Volvo Ocean Race grand finale next month (pretty lame excuse).
The Occupy Galway group are the last group still standing in Ireland, today (15th May) is day 215. Occupy Galway began in Eyre Square in October 2011 as part of the global Occupy Movement.
I chatted to a few of them today and had a wander around the camp taking some photos.
They have a good setup; solar power, a meeting room, kitchen, living area, flowers & plants growing, storage room and camping/sleeping area.
Post title is taken from the album 99 Songs For The 99%, a compilation of songs written supporting the protesters.
Cakes in the window of a shop/café in the square in Dungarvan, Co Waterford.
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