It had been ages since I got out to take photographs around the streets of Belfast (damn rain!). However, the sun has been shiny the last few days and as such I was free to wander. Lately there seems to been a rise in a interesting bits of graffiti, mostly around South Belfast/Holy Lands:

The statue of Edward Carson at Stormont taken a few years back.
All this talk of politics and voting lately has made me think I should maybe study-up a bit…

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Beautiful High Speed Photography.
NY Subway Ridership 1905-2006. Really interesting figures and very visually pleasing.
What goes around, comes around.
Aww this is cute.
I love the never ending story. I love this.
Awesome photo manipulations
Jessyel Ty Gonzalez’s brilliant take on Street Photography, which I hope to get out and do a lot more in the next few months.
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Scott Kelby is a Photoshop dude – Editor and publisher of what seems like a bit of a media empir – and a decent photographer. He’s running his second worldwide photo walk on 18th July. Last years photo walk I heard about after the event, this year I put my name down to lead the [...]

As I child I enjoyed music, and singing when I thought no one was around, but I was never really “into” music until I reached 14/15 or so. It was in the year I reignited a friendship with D, a friend I fell out with due to an incident a few years before.
It was only [...]

It has become one of those things that make Belfast a little bit more interesting for a few weeks twice a year; the Continental Market is returning to the City Hall in Belfast for the Bank Holiday weekend. Expensive beers, German hotdogs and exotic burgers. I’ll be found there.

Only 10 minutes before spotting the Legalise Cannabis Protest we noticed an anti-fur protest outside a prominent fur seller Barnardo Furs (108 Grafton Street, Dublin 2), who are certainly no stranger to protests at this stage, having had locks glued and shutters spray-painted in the past. [video from recent large protest].
Personally, I think its [...]

Scott Kelby has announced his 2nd Annual worldwide photo walk to take place on July 18th. Will you be organising one in your city?
Love Lurgan. It almost makes me want to visit the town.
10 Ways to change the world through social media.
I too used to like CurrentTV, now not so much.
Plans are being made for [...]

While on our way to Phoenix Park last Saturday we came across a protest march on O’Connell Street in favour of the legalisation of cannabis. The music, shouting, the smell of cannabis and sight of joints behind ears created a very exciting atmosphere.

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I couldn’t believe it when Niamh turned around while driving through Phoenix Park, Dublin, along Chesterfield Avenue and said, “Look, deer”. She wasn’t wrong. There were lots and lots of deer. Everywhere. Or so it seemed in the dark light.
I was very excited at this sight. I had to get back in daylight. Soon.

That was [...]