We were watching Tim Minchin on the telly back in July and just for the laugh Googled him to see if he was playing anytime soon.  We were heading up to Dublin for the U2 concert on the Saturday and sure enough Tim Minchin was playing on Sunday as part of the Carlsberg Comedy Festival.  I don’t think much needs to be said about this genius except to say that his show absolutely wowed us.

As if the musical comedic delights of Tim Minchin weren’t enough for us, Des Bishop was the 2nd headliner on the bill.  I’ve never seen Des live but I’ve enjoyed his shows on telly, each concept show getting that bit more involved and entertaining.  He’s got a certain stage presence and while he didn’t play any instrument, he toyed with the audience.  In particular, one lady who wanted to take part in the show after one too many glasses of wine.  Her “I paid for you” comment was the ultimate invitation to take the complete mickey out of her and Des obliged to everybody’s delight except hers.  Is binn béal ina thost, as the good man would say himself.

Michael Mee was the MC for the evening.  The Corkman did a fine job of getting the crowd in the mood with his self-deprecating style.  I wouldn’t mind seeing him in action doing his own show.

There was a great buzz around the Iveagh Gardens where the festival was held.

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A few months ago I was lucky enough to have one of my photos chosen in the Top Oil Calendar competition for 2009.  Well the calendars arrived recently along with a nicely framed copy of above photograph and a nice voucher which found a new home quite quickly!

Check out all the photos in the 2009 calendar.  I must say the printed versions of some of them didn’t do them justice.  I recently printed quite a few photos and thought they came out a lot darker than expected.  It looks like the same thing happened for these calendars.  Printing digital photos seems to be a bit hit and miss when it comes to the brightness and colours or is it just me?

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The last photo in the Dublin set I’ve been posting recently.  This was taken in Heuston Station when it was time to go home after running around trying to catch a nice winter sunset in Dublin.

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A bus passed by while I was taking this shot after the lights turned green.  Although it was a 30 second shot, I thought the  bus had dallied a bit too long but I quite like the effect.  It’s my current desktop background actually.

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Another long exposure shot from the inner-city slums of Dublin.  A few people managed to stay relatively still for the full 13 seconds of this shot which was kind of them.  And all they wanted was a bunch of smack for their troubles. 

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The Custom House in Dublin back in November of this year.  If you look closely, you can see the top of the spire lit up.

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Without wanting to repeat myself from yesterdays post, here’s another night shot I took in Dublin back in November.  Another few of these babies to come this week. 

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I set this 30 second expoure shot to go when I saw the lights going green at the far right of the picture thinking I’d get traffic trails. Not in Dublin at rush hour though! The traffic barely moved. Check out a larger version here.

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Traffic trails as seen from the top of a rubbish bin.  I didn’t have my main tripod with me so had to make do with placing the small tripod on top of other items. 

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Another bird from the time I got the last panning bird shot.

I’m getting that shot printed on canvas from Funk’d Online, who are based in Cork, along with this shot from a Roaring Forties gig.  I’m looking forward to seeing what they look like at 24X36.  It’s probably too late now to order from Funk’d for Christmas but I’ll post about the results when I get them.

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