This was from last week’s wide-angle lens day. To our left, the Millennium Spire, not precisely affectionately known as “The Stiffy by the Liffey,” and to our right, the General Post Office, which, in 1916, during the Easter Rising, was the uprising’s headquarters. The pillars are full of bullet holes.
I haven’t been publishing photos on the weekends, but I always think of this one as a St Patrick’s Day kind of photo, so Happy St Patrick’s Day! (This also featured as the cover image for Chaz Brenchley (‘s novel LIGHT ERRANT, when he re-released it as an e-book through Book View Cafe. :))
This is what you do with a 10-20mm lens: Wide-angle lens, meant for maxiumum unflatteringly funnyness. :) (“Oh, he’s *tragic*!” Young Indiana said enthusiastically upon seeing this picture.) I actually have a shot I took with the wide angle lens that I like enough to put up as a Kitsnaps later, but I’ll flag it as “This is what it does” when I do. It’s kind of fun to use–it’s more intended for landscapes than people–and I have some hope of getting out into the country to use it at…
Yesterday morning as I was working in Starbucks, I noticed a woman introducing herself to a man who’d just arrived, primarily because she used the immortal and ear-catching words, “I’m the writer.” I spent the next hour or so alternating between writing and evesdropping as three more men showed up and were introduced. Someone took out a laptop and showed a video. Great delight was expressed. Enthusiasm grew. The project was discussed. A crowdfunding project was in the works. I was sitting there twitching and going “THOSE PEOPLE ARE OVER…
