Steiner62's Photos

Is it a bat? No it's a bird, a batty bird maybe, but a bird. Possibly the Rook with the highest IQ in the Rookery this morning... If I were a Rook, I'd definitely be that guy... :) Seen & shot in Clonroche, County Wexford, early one morning before Sunrise in December. Minimally processed RAW to jpeg conversion with Picasa 3.

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A closer crop of "the girl with the gull in her eyelash". Taken from the waterfront looking across to the far bank of the river Suir, Waterford City, Ireland. Glad I had the long lens with me...derelict buildings look so much more interesting when covered in art...& being buzzed by seagulls. Unprocessed jpeg.

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Taken from the Waterfront looking across to the other side of the river Suir, Waterford City, Ireland. Glad I had the long lens with me...derelict riverside factories look so much more interesting when covered in art...sure, it even inspires more... :) Unprocessed jpeg.

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Boogie Street So come, my friends, be not afraid. We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear. Tho’ all the maps of blood and flesh Are posted on the door, There’s no one who has told us yet What Boogie Street is for. Leonard Cohen (Note - She's not walking alone - see her two doggies by her left side in the shadows?). This is an uprocessed jpeg.

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Fear no more the heat o' the sun Fear no more the heat o' the sun, Nor the furious winter's rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages; Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. Fear no more the frown o' the great; Thou art past the tyrant's stroke: Care no more to clothe and eat; To thee the reed is as the oak: The sceptre, learning, physic, must All follow this, and come to dust. Fear no more the lightning-flash, Nor the all-dreaded thunder-stone; Fear not slander, censure rash; Thou hast finished joy and moan; All lovers young, all lovers must Consign to thee, and come to dust. No exorciser harm thee! Nor no witchcraft charm thee! Ghost unlaid forbear thee! Nothing ill come near thee! Quiet consummation have; And renownéd be thy grave! -- William Shakespeare Jane's Angel I know, I know - not more of that God foresaken Angel...well, it's been raining AND snowing here to-day, crappy light too. So what do you expect me to do? Play around in Picasa of course, like the non PhotoShopping Philistine I am... :)

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Transformed in the shadows into living ghosts, transient spectres...strollers taking advantage of a very mild & dry November evening on Dun Laoire's East Pier, County Dublin, Ireland. Unprocessed jpeg.

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People transformed into spectres, living ghosts. Is that not what we are all after all? Strollers taking advantage of a very mild & dry November evening on Dun Laoire Pier, County Dublin, Ireland. Unprocessed jpeg. I love the High ISO on the Canon EOS 50D!

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Dun Laoire's East Pier on a mild November evening. People transformed into spectres, living ghosts. Is that not what we are all after all? Unprocessed jpeg.

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Selling flashy trinkets before the Show.

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Circus Vegas, Dublin. He was from España.

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They loved thier doggy treats, or should that be wolfy treats? For An, because I just knew she would like this... :)

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One of the performers takes her bows at the end of this year's show.

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Before the Show at Circus Vegas, Kiltiernan, County Dublin, Ireland.

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Minnie can spin thirty hula hoops simultaneously & still remember to smile. She can squeeze herself into an impossibly small perspex box (which she once did on Ripley's "Believe It Or Not"). She also sells the kids light toys during the interval. What a Trouper. The latter duty no doubt was tolerated rather than enjoyed...but when centre stage she shone.

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He was the Trampoline Guy...

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My mother's home near Cabinteely, County Dublin is much nearer The Three Rock Mountain than I am in my home just across the border, in Bray County Wicklow (as some of you who are familiar with my interminable "Bathroom" Sunset Series already know!). The TV transmitters that have over the year's been a constant (unwelcome) landmark for Dubliners like me atop this mountain therefore appear considerably nearer here through my long lens. In fact this is the first time I have shot the Sunset over this Dublin mountain from this perspective. It was a bit special to-night, for at least three reasons then, this sunset. Firstly, it was as you can see spectacular - with one very distinct orange beam (or pillar even, thanks Viny!) of light spraying light more or less vertically up from behind the mountain as you can clearly see in this shot. This single distinctive beam of light persisted for fifteen, maybe twenty minutes, & was at it's peak in intensity more or less when I shot this image. Secondly, it's a vantage point from which I have watched hundreds, possibly thousands of sunsets from during the first quarter century of my life - my parent's bedroom window. This though, was the very first time I've actually photographed it from here, & only because I was with my kids at the Circus earlier, so happened to have my camera in the car when I got to my mother's house for dinner this evening. Also, I would have missed this completely anyway, as I was in "eating my mother's amazing stew mode" at the time. If she had not been at the kitchen window & said "there's another beautiful sunset" (like she has maybe hundreds of times from that window over the years), then I would not have sloped off for five (OK, ten) minutes upstairs to her bedroom with my camera for the best vantage point, photographically. I was up & down maybe three times over the ten minutes, got three or four nice shots, of which I think this is probably the best. I still managed to have two helpings of her Stew, too... Thirdly, a nice local birdy on it's way home co-operated with my usual MO for Sunset shot's...& flew right past the orange beam of light. :)

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