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Dun Laoghaire has changed a lot since I took these photographs and there are many changes on the way especially along George’s Street.
I was employed by Ericsson and based in Dun Laoghaire at the Adelphi Centre from 2001 to 2010 and I really liked the town even though the place was going through a period of urban decline and depression.
When I was there we were based in George’s Street which was going down hill at a rapid pace and the company decision to move from the town must have had a huge impact on the town and especially on the restaurants on the main street.
Before I joined Ericsson I worked for two different companies with offices at Haigh Terrace which became a no-go area at night because of anti-social behaviour related to drug-dealing. Because of the new library complex and the removal of the pond in Moran Park the anti-social problem in the immediate area is no longer an issue even if some locals dislike the library building.
According to a recent report Georges Street is too long as a main street in order to support viable retailing. Therefore, it is proposed that the street be demarcated into distinct quarters: an Interiors Quarter on Lower Georges Street from Cumberland Street to St Michael’s Hospital; the Core Retail Quarter from Bloomfields Shopping Centre to Haigh Terrace; the Commercial & Residential Quarter from Haigh Terrace to Adelphi House; and the Artesian Quarter on Upper Georges Street from Mellifont Avenue to the People’s Park.
Several interventions at street level are required to change the appearance of each quarter and communicate a distinct proposition for each quarter to shoppers and visitors. These interventions will range from the establishment of new town squares; to the creative use of paving, seating, flowerbeds and lighting; to the introduction of new canopies and shading; to the erection of new sculpted features and signage.
It is envisaged that as the development of the retail quarters gain momentum, the demand for retail space will increase. The new mechanisms such as the Property Forum and Retail Forum will be vehicles to focus new retail businesses into clusters for example food and fashion specialty shops in the Artesian Quarter.
- The ensemble of Classical Indian dancers from that time over #10YearsAgo I went to a classical Indian dance performance.
- Random street photo from over #10YearsAgo with people waiting at St Pancras. There were lots of rubbish bags around too.
- From the time I went on a midnight star hunt with friends to Gordale Scar at Yorkshire Dales #10YearsAgo. Of course by the time we arrive, the clouds came in. If you look closely you can see another camera on tripods.
- From over #10YearsAgo when I got fascinated by the workings inside this Swiss made transparent wristwatch. This is the front of the watch.
- I have so many of these abstract shots with the spinning colour disc as a natural colour mixer. Not going to look at all of them being from over #10YearsAgo, but they sure create fascinating patterns.
- From over #10YearsAgo when I got fascinated by the workings inside this Swiss made transparent wristwatch. From the back, the spring that powers the mechanism is visible here to the bottom right.
There is nothing that I find more exciting as a photographer than leaving the element of chance to the process of in camera multiple exposures. No two frames are ever the same - each result is a moment of perfection, when a new vision is born. Layer upon layer, a mystery and miracle.
Photoshop can mimic these "multiple exposures" via layering, but it's not the same. The element of chance is removed. The gift of spontaneity is lost.
- Street photography of street musicians from #10YearsAgo pre-pandemic. This is a candid portrait of the second violinist in thee band: it says violin 2 on the thing on the ground.
- From my explorations of the Whitstable area #10YearsAgo. These are the nice beach cabins, they look like being build from colourful Lego bricks.
- Paris is hosting the Olympics and Para olympics this year. But here seen on a nice summer day from an old France trip over #10YearsAgo, we saw some sails on the Seine that looks to be a part of a competition.
- From a road trip along the coast of Northern French in Brittany over #10YearsAgo. This area is full of small islands or just rocks. It must be hard for larger boats to run in this area of Brittany's coast.
- From a road trip along the coast of Northern Frence in Brittany over #10YearsAgo. It was spring and early summer time and it was rainy. It looks as if these flowers got enough of the rain.
Great, I should not have altered the values in that blackbox in the mirror that said "natural constants"...
But "300 000" for "speed of reflected light" seemed a little too much to me. But now the light is so slow that I only see ten year old reflections... in crappy quality from the preHDTV era...Dammit! I bet shaving will be a problem from now on!
- From the time over #10YearsAgo when I got really fascinated by bokeh lights and experimenting with doing bokehramas. This is not a city scene but a morning park scene with lots of sunlight.
- A seabird flying above the golden sands at dusk. Seen from an old France road trip over #10YearsAgo.
- From a Whitby visit over #10YearsAgo. We went to see the Whitby Abbey ruins under some nice photogenic weather in the sky.
- This was the view of the street leading to the St Paul's Roman Catholic Church in Dover. Seen when we passed through Dover on a trip over #10YearsAgo.
- This is how the wheel area looked #10YearsAgo when the wheel was a new attraction. I wonder how the area looks now, since the wheel was removed I heard.
- Interior of Rouen cathedral, here is a view of the gate in the back and the organ just above it. From an old France trip over #10YearsAgo.
- From the inside of the Church of St Joan of Arc in Rouen, a set of stained glass windows have calming blue patterns. From an old France trip over #10YearsAgo.
- Street photography of street musicians from #10YearsAgo pre-pandemic. This is a band with both classical instruments and contemporary rock band stuff.
Dun Laoghaire has changed a lot since I took these photographs and there are many changes on the way especially along George’s Street.
I was employed by Ericsson and based in Dun Laoghaire at the Adelphi Centre from 2001 to 2010 and I really liked the town even though the place was going through a period of urban decline and depression.
When I was there we were based in George’s Street which was going down hill at a rapid pace and the company decision to move from the town must have had a huge impact on the town and especially on the restaurants on the main street.
Before I joined Ericsson I worked for two different companies with offices at Haigh Terrace which became a no-go area at night because of anti-social behaviour related to drug-dealing. Because of the new library complex and the removal of the pond in Moran Park the anti-social problem in the immediate area is no longer an issue even if some locals dislike the library building.
According to a recent report Georges Street is too long as a main street in order to support viable retailing. Therefore, it is proposed that the street be demarcated into distinct quarters: an Interiors Quarter on Lower Georges Street from Cumberland Street to St Michael’s Hospital; the Core Retail Quarter from Bloomfields Shopping Centre to Haigh Terrace; the Commercial & Residential Quarter from Haigh Terrace to Adelphi House; and the Artesian Quarter on Upper Georges Street from Mellifont Avenue to the People’s Park.
Several interventions at street level are required to change the appearance of each quarter and communicate a distinct proposition for each quarter to shoppers and visitors. These interventions will range from the establishment of new town squares; to the creative use of paving, seating, flowerbeds and lighting; to the introduction of new canopies and shading; to the erection of new sculpted features and signage.
It is envisaged that as the development of the retail quarters gain momentum, the demand for retail space will increase. The new mechanisms such as the Property Forum and Retail Forum will be vehicles to focus new retail businesses into clusters for example food and fashion specialty shops in the Artesian Quarter.
- Seen in the Normandy countryside. This area of norther Normandy has some very nice beaches that also doesn't look crowded. From an old France road trip over #10YearsAgo.
- From my explorations of the Whitstable area #10YearsAgo. There was this really narrow part of the beach, like a footpath into the sea that people liked hiking on.
Dun Laoghaire has changed a lot since I took these photographs and there are many changes on the way especially along George’s Street.
I was employed by Ericsson and based in Dun Laoghaire at the Adelphi Centre from 2001 to 2010 and I really liked the town even though the place was going through a period of urban decline and depression.
When I was there we were based in George’s Street which was going down hill at a rapid pace and the company decision to move from the town must have had a huge impact on the town and especially on the restaurants on the main street.
Before I joined Ericsson I worked for two different companies with offices at Haigh Terrace which became a no-go area at night because of anti-social behaviour related to drug-dealing. Because of the new library complex and the removal of the pond in Moran Park the anti-social problem in the immediate area is no longer an issue even if some locals dislike the library building.
According to a recent report Georges Street is too long as a main street in order to support viable retailing. Therefore, it is proposed that the street be demarcated into distinct quarters: an Interiors Quarter on Lower Georges Street from Cumberland Street to St Michael’s Hospital; the Core Retail Quarter from Bloomfields Shopping Centre to Haigh Terrace; the Commercial & Residential Quarter from Haigh Terrace to Adelphi House; and the Artesian Quarter on Upper Georges Street from Mellifont Avenue to the People’s Park.
Several interventions at street level are required to change the appearance of each quarter and communicate a distinct proposition for each quarter to shoppers and visitors. These interventions will range from the establishment of new town squares; to the creative use of paving, seating, flowerbeds and lighting; to the introduction of new canopies and shading; to the erection of new sculpted features and signage.
It is envisaged that as the development of the retail quarters gain momentum, the demand for retail space will increase. The new mechanisms such as the Property Forum and Retail Forum will be vehicles to focus new retail businesses into clusters for example food and fashion specialty shops in the Artesian Quarter.
- I think white cliffs are all over this region, not just Dover. This is the view of the cliffs around Le Tréport so on the French side of the English Channel. From an old France road trip over #10YearsAgo at a Normandy coastal town.
- Seen from an old France trip over #10YearsAgo. The row of gargoyles on the building to the left is facing of the row of street lights to the right.
- Countryside scene from hiking trip over #10YearsAgo. Looks like a sheep farm with fields on the cliffs by the sea for the sheep to wonder.
- From that time over #10YearsAgo I played with a big pet fish tank. This one done some interesting eye make-up.
- Seen from an old France road trip over #10YearsAgo at a Normandy beach. This area around the mouth of Seine has long stretches of nice large shallow beach areas. The beach front houses also look nice and interestingly colourful.
- Closing in landing in London Heathrow over #10YearsAgo, this is the aerial view over the close by Roehampton Club which looks like a sports club with all sorts of facilities.
- From the ferry leaving Calais on a cloudy day after our road trip over #10YearsAgo. A couple of seabirds followed the ferry and provided some entertainment. This one was seen against a cloud background that made it look like it just flew out from a cloud.
- One of the restaurants in Lunds Saluhallen market in Sweden as seen over #10YearsAgo. This place at this lunch time looks like a gathering place for families with babies.
- These vending machines seen over #10YearsAgo in Sweden seem to use the old Swedish 5 SEK coins that are no longer in circulation.
- From a road trip along the coast of Northern French in Brittany over #10YearsAgo and a ferry ride between mainland and Île de Batz island. The coastal seas are full of little rocky islands.
- From the time over #10YearsAgo I saw this peculiar segmented double rainbow over Canterbury Cathedral. This is the segmented rainbow in the process of breaking up, there were fascinating rays across the double rainbow.
- A seabird on the quiet beach after sunset watching the sailing boats on the sea. Seen from an old France road trip over #10YearsAgo.