Luck of the Iris

With the construction of the Mizen Head bridge finally finished, the lighthouse is now accessible to the public. The bridge is better though.

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Take less than two weeks ago in Limerick, I took the liberty of adding a sepia tone to the image for added effect. When working with cheap medium format film from Hong Kong, you’d also get some interesting results.

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This was along the Carrigaloe Rd, shortly after crossing over with the ferry from Monkstown. Taken with the Pentax Spotmatic ( SP 1000 ).

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From Wikipedia:

Thomas Barry (Irish: Tomás de Barra) (1 July 1897 – 2 July 1980) was one of the most prominent guerrilla leaders in the Irish Republican Armyduring the Irish War of Independence.

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This was taken from 35mm colour film that could have been expired for more than 10 years or so, it was still inside the camera I was given, which I believe was a 40 year old Pentax SP1000 that was in good condition. A good bit of colour processing was involved to restore the colours from an image to something that resembles a photo of a cat. His name is Robin by the way, my 4 year old nephew named him.

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The old Waterworks plant out by Lee Road used to pump the water from the Lee to supply Cork city since the 1760s.

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Finally managed to develop the 35mm roll without getting order of the chemicals in the wrong order ( Developer > Stop Bath > Fixer as opposed to Stop Bath > Developer > Fixer ). This was taken with a Pentax SP-1000.

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It doesn’t look like a bad place to work. This was taken on the Culture Day, I had nothing to declare at the time.

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