So the other day when I got the Meat Loaf concert date wrong and there was nobody at the venue and I was walking around trying to find open doors, I noticed people crossing the street to watch the drawbridge being lifted over the Liffy, so I went over to watch too. Despite taking this, and several other, pictures, I somehow managed to miss the very large ship coming down the Liffey toward the drawbridge (I was looking the wrong way) until it blasted its horn and nearly scared the…
Another one where I went back and forth and back and forth trying to decide whether it should be a color or b&w photograph. Obviously I finally decided on B&W. :) Egret at Dublin Zoo! (Someone had to correct me on this, I had put it down as an ibis due to them living with the ibis…es…and I wasn’t thinking enough. Egret! Probably snowy! :))
Convention Centre Dublin View[/caption] I’m not absolutely sure this should qualify as a Kitsnap, but what the heck. I was in Dublin’s new convention centre a while back, and this panorama is one I took from an upper floor, overlooking the docklands.
For Deborah Blake, a couple more pictures of the Abyssinian hornbill and his lady friend: This is the best picture I got of his body, and mostly I was just taking it to give an idea of how dramatically he was preening and tilting himself around for the admiration of this lovely lady: …who was sitting with her back to him, completely unimpressed. :) I believe I have acquired my annual accidental sunburn today. Fortunately one of my purposes in going out was to get more sunblock, which we ran…
Now this gargoyle is definitely at St Finbarr’s Cathedral in Cork, even if I’m not sure about the apse photo from the other day. :) I like gargoyles, as people might guess. :)