Instagram 2019-2020

I had re-enabled my instagram in 2019, but after almost a year I ( again ) realize that the app was sucking time out of me, about an hour a day if not more, of mindless scrolling, so once more it has now been disabled. I certainly miss the ability to share some photos, but even with an app (Google Digital Wellbeing is actually quite good, by allowing to put daily time cap specific to various app) to limit my access, I was not able to have the self control to stop checking my phone. I think i will use that blog again to share pictures, and stay away from Social media once more.

Halloween 2019 - first photo of the revived Instagram account

Last one June 2020 (mid-lockdown)

Revisiting Instagram - 2012

Since we are reaching the end of 2019, time to step back in time over  the last past seven years, through my old instagram account archive.

First Year 2012

Instagram 2012

2013

Instagram 2013

2014

Instagram 2014

2015

Instagram 2015

2016

Instagram 2016

2017

Instagram 2017

2018

No Instagram

Iceland - a first visit

So last weekend we travelled to Iceland, a brilliant birthday from my adorable girlfriend.

HALLGRÍMSKIRKJA CHURCH

Graf Reykjavik

 

Geysers

Misc

Not much to say except that I hope to come back.

National Botanic Garden

The National Botanic Gardens are a little piece of heaven in the North side of Dublin 

You can also see there a good share of squirrels (grey ones on that side of the Shannon )

There is also an annexe in County Wicklow, which is worth the trip,see National Botanic Gardens, Kilmacurragh

An old roll

Today I collected a the photographs developed of a very old roll - based on some of the pictures I am guessing it was 2006 or 2007.
It was a very good surprise to discover the pictures,

First rediscovering myself from 5 or 6 years ago.

me

   I still remember that road, I took several picture of it with different cameras at the time, i think it was up in the Connemara, not very far from Achill Island.

Follow the road

 Off course there was pictures of the sea....

Or wast it a lake lost in the fog ?

And of sheeps...

Sheeeepppp

    And of me fighting the elements...

Survivor mode

The pictures were all taken by one of these wonderful camera, in that case an Action Sampler.

My 2012 movember

mymovember, a photo by TOF2006 on Flickr.

In summary:
- Gigs (RSAG, Ham Sandwich, Hermitage Green ... )
- Choucroute
- Turf fires, pub and whiskey
- Dublin findings includes Choucroute
- A mow
- Some ginger beer and half nurphys.

Seen through a fisheye - East

Got the results of the fisheye photography, during my last visit in Dublin ....

A lovely couple

Unloading the catch of the day on the pier...

Walk on the beach...

Trees ...

Playing with Diana

I have been a long time fan of lomography ( http://www.lomography.com/ ) so when i stumbled upon a Diana camera ( not the original, but a recent production ) i could not resist...

Diana by Lomography

I also invested in a couple of roll 120 films and here's below the results:

Night driving in limerick ( 120film color 400 ISO )

Night drive...

Mirror experimenting

Mirror .. mirror tell me ....

Somehow I had better luck with the RescaleX ( 90-200 ) films:

In Kilkee, on te slip

The joker on the slip

The pier

Attack by the waves...

And in Limerick

View from the parking:

Limerick church

Playing with settings

Limerick church

  The docker monument:

Docker monument .. unsafe they say

Docker close up 

Shannon view

Church 

Me

Autoportrait

 

Playing with instagram

I have found myself playing a lot with  Instagram recently released for Android.
The only thing missing right now is a direct upload to Flickr [UPDATE: solved via IFTT].

Playmobil

Arrr !!!!!

Lego

Legos are in formation, ready for the parade.

Dinner time

Dinner... Salad, egg, chorizo...

More to come, I feel....

Underwater Ireland over the years

Hymn - Francis Giacobetti

Great news, next year the Hymn project by F.Giacobetti will tour around the world in a series of expositions.
Giacobetti started that project in 1980, and it's a fascinating idea: basically he is photographying the iris ( and hands ) of famous people. I saw some of the picture, in an article in the French magazine Geo, few years ago, and the images of those iris are absolutely staggering.

See below a sample from the exposition website:

I'd love to be able to take pictures like those...




For your information: Giacobetti is a french photograph, famous for his pirelli calendar in the 1970, and for directing Emmanuelle 2.

2nd Blog

I've been looking for a while a blog called Grenoble Daily Photo , it shows a picture a Grenoble everyday. I used to live in Grenoble before coming to Ireland, so it's interesting to rediscover part of this city ( and even some parts I did not know).

So it kinda of inspirate me to do the same with the town I am currently living in : Limerick.

So here we go: Limerick Daily Photo

Forest Walk

Just walking in the forest near Lough Key...

Saturday: No Wicked Chicken, replace by a very nice concert from Fionn Regan in Dolans.
See Fionn Regan in the RTE program Other Voices.