Celtic vs. Barcelona!
The streets are full of supporters… and beer, lots of it…
Celtic supporters in Temple Bar
A good and fun crowd 🙂
Lots of fun, even considering the final result… 
Soccer fans
Category photography
Proud Dublin
Yesterday Dublin Pride parade was held. Tens of thousands of people marched to celebrate diversity and solidarity as well as remembering what happened in Orlando two weeks ago.
It was refreshing to see so many happy people 🙂
Girls like equality! Boys do too…
One human family!
Photo trip to the Saltee islands
We left Dublin early on Saturday to get to the Saltee islands:
Saltee islands
The weather wasn’t great: fog and clouds and we weren’t particularly optimistic for the day.
Kilmore Quay, not a great morning as far as weather goes…
Land ho!
The clouds covered the sky almost all morning, until we got onto the islands.
Once we arrive though, the sun decided to show up and we had a beautiful (mostly) sunny day.
A beautiful sunny day
I admit I was afraid I couldn’t do much to get the birds and that they’d be too far away for my lenses… It turns out we could get within a few metres from them, we could almost touch them!
And there were so many…
So many birds… at least the story was different from the movie…
Good day, a few good photos 🙂
Nests… To give you an idea of how close we were, I shot this with a 35mm equivalent…
Blue skies
Youth
So. Many. Birds.
The group
Watching the nests
Gannet
That eye… We almost walked into this guy’s nest… ^_^;
The walk
Field of dreams
On the high rock
Watching the sea
The sentinel
So cute…
A little rest befor going back
Ready to go back
Goodbye birdies!
On the way back
Back on the mainland, harbour
Still, there is something I don’t understand:
Why do puffins look so sad? 😦
Donegal
Results from a quick trip to Donegal 🙂
Donegal
The beach
Tourists
Sliabh Liag
Boats
Horseshoe
Fire
Old man and pipe
In the streets
The prank
Sun, rain and wind 🙂
Spring
Ok, ok, I know… It’s been a while since last time…
And now, apparently, Spring has finally come! Temperature is up, the sun is shining in the sky and the jacket hasn’t left the house in a few days…
Anyway, new week, new photowalk.
The group met in the city centre and left to shoot places that were used in the making of movies. Or, at least that was the initial intention… We kinda got distracted walking in Trinity College and ended up just taking advantage of the beautiful day…
Sky
Keep off the lawns!!!
Homework
In the sun
Stripes
Lunch
Coincidence
We spent almost two hours just walking the grounds in Trinity, and then we decided to move towards the City Council building on the quays.
To spice things up, we decided to go through Temple Bar…
Lines
Car
Happiness 🙂
A quick break
Sloooow
Social media
Mmmmh… ice cream….
*Click*
Pub
Last act was, of course, pints accompanied by a friendly chat…
Pints in the sun
Dingle Peninsula
Parents visiting from Italy and a long weekend travelling through Ireland: that’s a good combination 🙂 .
Near Slea Head… Those colours :O
We were even lucky enough to get decent weather, I don’t think the trip would have been very fun otherwise.
From the Blasket centre
The long and winding road
The sentinel
If this doesn’t scream “Ireland”, I don’t know what does…
Slea Head beach
Inch beach
Watching the Ring of Kerry
The views were incredible… pictures can’t capture that…
Easter rising centenary
This year marks the centenary of the Easter Rising, during which Irish Republican took up arms against the British army.
The celebration included a parade featuring Irish soldiers from many different forces.
We tried to catch a few glimpes of the parade (which wasn’t easy due to the crowd) and here’s part of the result…
At the Garden of Remembrance
Is that the best backpack to wear today?
Those must be a pain to keep clean…
Hey!
It was a very nice (and cold) day…
I lost count of the number of sesaons we had this weekend, but look at the (double) rainbow!!! If you can’t see the second, it’s on the right… ending on the smokestacks…
Irish Army seal of approval
St. Patrick’s day!
First year in Ireland, first St. Patrick’s day in Dublin!
‘Stay at home’, they said. ‘It’s going to be crazy’, they said. I didn’t listen 🙂 .
We met at 10 to go see the parade, we were very close to the route it would take. We got even closer, we could have almost touched them… And still we couldn’t see anything…
Parade
People
Let’s party
Crowd
I have rarely seen so many people just hanging around and having fun (and pints, but mostly fun…).
I even brought my camera, hoping to get some good shots… I shouldn’t have bothered 😀
Still, the best thing to see were the people…
Irish people
St. Patrick’s attire
Green
Pigtails
Irish flag
Kiss me, I’m Irish
Shamrocks
Irish people
Green
Smile
Is that St. Patrick?
And, of course, when everything was over…
Cleaning up
Falconry workshop
It’s been a while since I had the chance to shoot birds, and this week a workshop on falconry provided the perfect occasion to do it again 🙂 .
It was also the perfect occasion to remind how much I miss my long lenses 😦 .
Still, good day, great group, wonderful birds… and a couple of decent pictures…
Royal owl
Time to go…
Gliding
Flight demonstration
Landing
Barn owl
Cute *.*
Those eyes…
Barn owl II
Peregrine falcon
Now I need to get a proper lens for this kind of things… 😛
Rainy Dublin
Went out yesterday (last week, as of now 🙂 )… Rain… So much rain…
Even if I was actually out for a very short time I managed to get completely wet (and miserable).
I only managed to get a few snaps around the city centre and of the right2water thing…
Window shopping
Working on a Saturday
Flowers
Henry street
Don’t touch my water!
Protest
Goatee
Marching for free water
Definitely Irish 🙂
At the needle
Tickets?
Streets
Bus stop
Keeping the streets clean
A smoke in the sun
Streets
What a beatiful day!
You’re definitely never boring, Dublin… 😀
The clueless photographer 