toejam photomeet dublin
May 19th, 2008
That feeling I normally get before the blog awards of “oh my, I haven’t read enough blogs lately, or left enough comments. I will be asking everyone how they have been only for them to say ‘not been reading my blog? It’s all there.’ And I will have to say no.
on the bus to dublin
Thanks to Twitter this wasn’t the case as I met with John, Catriona, Will, Redmum, Darren, Lexia, Gingerpixel, and Nathalie and Eoghan. Twitter helps me feel more in touch when I don’t get the opportunity to read every new blog entry.
alexia, catriona, will, darren, john, davy
After meeting Davy we made our way to the Bernard Shaw Pub for the Toejam carboot sale, at the back of the Bernard Shaw Pub in the Portobello area of Dublin.
Toejam carboot sale, back of the Bernard Shaw Pub
dead pheasant claw
The carboot sale had a very retro feel to it, plenty of bright colours, helped by the sun (not good for my unprotected eyes – I can’t find my sunglasses), good music, crazy outfits, with plenty of cheap crap for sale, some useful stuff too im sure.
Catriona
Claire
From one market to another; Temple Bar Food Market was next – Many of us spent much of our time here eating; dumplings and noodles in my case – they tasted great. Then came drinky time, in the Fitzsimmons Bar, 5th floor beer garden, where Debz joined us, though it wasn’t long before the sun disappeared and the wind started blowing, lots.
fitzsimmons bar stairwell
Although I didn’t voice this at the time I kinda feel we stayed at the carboot sale a little long. The jumble sale was a great location, though small and it wasn’t too long before I had circled it enough to have creeped everyone out as they were innocently selling stuff. I think having a route planned out planned is the best idea for street shooting until the final destination is reached, preventing staying in the same place for too long. It was a great location,
It was undoubtedly a really enjoyable day. Everyone was really nice, each with various insights and discussion was of workshops, future photomeets and alternative locations including Belfast, and the North Coast (Bushmills!).
After dinner myself and Davy headed to the Market Bar, a huge place which was definitely a market at one point. There we met anthony, darragh, darren, ben, alexia. Plenty of drinks were had.
I missed the last Aircoach, which is stupidly at 9pm, so rather than waste my return ticket, I managed to find a some shelter in a cheap hostel, which was pretty dirty and I almost slipped in a pool of vomit at the top of the stairwell in the morning. Doesn’t really when all you need is a place to ‘crash’ for the night, I wasn’t worried at 2am – the bed was fine. I slept. I was able to stay another day, always a plus. The weather was awesome on Sunday, better than Saturday.
So yeah, it was a great weekend. Photos from Sunday will be posted during the week. Thanks, cool Dublin bloggers – until we meet again!
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