These bottles are the cast-aways of this world
These bottles are the cast-aways of this world. They have no value or purpose and they have no genre, but are simply the architecture of the visual world, its daily experience.
Sarah Hall, How To Paint a Dead Man.
Camera: Canon EOS 550D
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Week 19 | 52 rolls project
Last weekend I went to London where I visited a refreshing exhibition at the Tate Modern and bought, among the other things, an inspiring book about pinhole cameras and their pictures.
Back home, I found Dublin bathed in glorious sunshine too!
As I wasn’t looking for huge contrast and insane saturation, I had this week’s film developed normally in E-6. Those of you who are familiar with the Lomo X-Pro 200′s yellowish green tones know that normal C-41 chemicals will cross process this film. So would it be correct to say that I had it cross-cross-processed?
Camera: Belair X 6-12 (90mm lens)
Film: Lomography X-Pro Slide 200
Location: London, England – Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
What is a weed?
The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary says that a weed is “a plant that grows, especially profusely, where it is not wanted”, which captures some of the spirit of weediness, but I think not all of it. One idea this definition conveys is that any plant can be a weed, if it’s in the wrong place.
Ken Thompson, The Book of Weeds.
Camera: Canon EOS 300
Film: Ilford Delta 100 Pro (developed in Ilfosol 3, 1+9, 5 min, 20°C)
Location: Somewhere in Co. Kildare
Another folly, this time around the corner
In order not to stray from the topic of follies, around the corner from where I live there is this large obelisk.
This 100-foot (30 meters) structure made of granite was built in the 18th century by Edward Lovett Pearce, a very well known Irish Architect who became famously known as the Father of Irish Palladian Architecture and Georgian Dublin. It is thought that Lord Allen, who owned the house and grounds where the Obelisk was erected, commissioned it to provide employment locally during the famine years.
Camera: Voigtlander Vitoret DR
Film: Kodak T-Max 400 (developed in Ilfosol 3, 1+9, 6 min, 20°C)
Location: Stillorgan, Co. Dublin
Week 18 | 52 rolls project
The Wonderful Barn is a corkscrew-shaped construction built in 1743 on the Leixlip side of the Castletown Estate. It was commissioned by Katherine Connolly, widow of William Connolly who had the first Palladian Mansion built in Ireland – Castletown House.
Camera: Canon EOS 300
Film: Ilford Delta 100 Pro (developed in Ilfosol 3, 1+9, 5 min, 20°C)
Location: Leixlip, Co. Kildare
Fuelling up
Every time I’m going away the question is Which camera should I bring?
Camera: Canon EOS 550D
Location: Airfield Gardens, Dublin
Urban Dublin #7
Walkers are ‘practitioners of the city’ for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking is the act of speaking that language, of selecting from those possibilities. Just as language limits what can be said, architecture limits where one can walk, but the walker invents other ways to go.
Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
Guess the missing letters!
It seems that the sculpture of the lady climbing up the wall of the Treasury Building was originally intended to be a man. It had to undergo a sex-change because a developer billionaire was not too keen on the idea of having a naked man just outside his office window.
And after all that walking I enjoyed a well deserved rest at 3FE. A place where you can drink a fantastic coffee while flipping through the pages of architecture and design magazines is a winner!
Camera: Canon EOS 550D
Location: Dublin
May Day Greetings
Whatever may be your dreams for this Summer*, hope they will come true!
Whether you’re celebrating Summer or International Workers’ Day, May Day greetings!
Camera: Canon EOS 550D
Location: Herbert Park, Dublin
* According to the Irish calendar Summer begins today. I’m still wearing boots but this is a little thing, isn’t it?