King John’s Castle also known as Limerick Castle is a 13th-century castle located on King’s Island in Limerick, Ireland, next to the River Shannon. Although the site dates back to 922 when the Vikings lived on the Island, the castle itself was built on the orders of King John of England in 1200.
The River Shannon is the major river on the island of Ireland, and at 360 km (224 miles) in length,is the longest river in Britain or Ireland. It drains the Shannon River Basin, which has an area of 16,900 km2 (6,525 sq mi), – approximately one fifth of the area of Ireland.
STREET ART – A WORK IN PROGRESS ON CHANCERY STREET
This is located near the Four Courts on Chancery Street in Dublin.
I had a horrible day as I must have met every village idiot in Ireland … stupid comments, demanding to be photographed, demanding not to be photographed, putting their hands on my lens, calling me a sissy for wearing a mask, blowing in my ear and then just standing still, etc.
ST MARY’S CHURCH OF IRELAND CHURCH – MY FIRST EVER VISIT
The church in my photographs was built in 1846, however the land it sits on a religious site going back to 500 AD.
The cemetery has graves dating back to the 1600s.
I visited this churchyard twice in two days as I wanted to compare two camera body-lens combinations. This session I used a Sony A7RIV with a Sony 28-135 lens [an expensive lens] and the following day I used a Canon 1Ds MkIII with a Sigma 24-105mm lens [the Canon body is very old but the lens is new]. Other than the fact that the Sony 28-135 lens is very heavy I have decided that the Sony combination is my preferred option however the Canon was better than I had expected and I like using it even though I only have three suitable lenses.
CLUB CHROMA CHLOROLOGIA – DISCO TITANS OR DISCO BALLS
While I was there today an old gentleman described this as a “load of balls”, “Disco Balls” … he actually liked it.
Created by artist, designer and nightclub pioneer Niall Sweeney, Club Chroma Chlorologia is a newly commissioned series of site-specific works installed in the gardens and grounds of the 17th-century Royal Hospital Kilmainham, which combine to create unlikely interventions that you can encounter, discover and take part in over the Summer.
Over the Summer months, Club Chroma Chlorologia expands beyond its dazzle-patterned gateway — located at the north-facing aspects of the RHK, where the giant Club Chroma manifesto calls visitors to action — and down into the historic gardens at IMMA.
Born on the grassroots dancefloors of the marginalised, Chlorologia merges the mythologies and desires of the combined settings of the formal garden and underground nightclub — as a place of projected fantasy, collective emancipation and transformational power. The title Chlorologia makes playful reference to the energy transformations of light in plant biology, tuning in to the diverse forces of nature in a universal desire to dance freely again.
With its language of signs set amongst the flickering eyes and raging tongues of the polychromatic creatures of the labyrinth, Chlorologia lures you through the geometries of the garden with theatrics of visibility & invisibility, protest & parade, joy & disorientation — inviting you to be present, to show your colours, to move together, and to have some fun.
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