THE MAIN QUADRANGLE QUEENS UNIVERSITY 24 JUNE 2014
When I photographed this in June 2014 I was unable to locate any information relating to this sculpture but a few years I came across the following information:
This Reclining Figure by Frederick Edward McWilliam (1909-92) was relocated from the quadrangle at the David Keir building to the main Quadrangle at the Lanyon Building Queen’s University in 2013 and it took me five years to find any information relating to this interesting bronze sculpture.
Frederick Edward McWilliam CBE RA (30 April 1909 – 13 May 1992), was a Northern Irish surrealist sculptor, born in Banbridge, County Down. He worked chiefly in stone, wood and bronze.
Commissions included the Four Seasons Group for the Festival of Britain exhibition in 1951. McWilliam exhibited at Waddington Galleries, London, and had a major retrospective show at the Tate Gallery in 1989.
In 1964 he was awarded an Honorary D.Litt. from the Queen’s University Belfast. In 1966 he was awarded a C.B.E. and in 1971 he won the Oireachtas Gold Medal. McWilliam is represented in many public collections, including MOMA (New York) and Tate Britain.
The Queens University estate comprises more than 250 buildings, 98 of which are listed. The Lanyon Building, which opened in 1849 and is named after its architect Sir Charles Lanyon, is the centrepiece of the estate.
JOHN STREET SOUTH AND SUMMER STREET SOUTH IN PIMLICO
I know very little about these two streets in Pimlico which I never explored until today [26 June 2022].
Pete St John’s popular song Dublin in the Rare Old Times, recorded by many artists including Dublin City Ramblers, The Dubliners, and Flogging Molly, is in the voice of one Sean Dempsey, “born hard and late in Pimlico, in a house that ceased to be”.
Pimlico is an inner city area of Dublin, Ireland on the southside in Dublin 8. It lies between Thomas Court and Ardee Street. At the Thomas Court end of Pimlico is Pimlico Cottage. It is close to the St. James’s Gate Guinness Brewery and the smell of the hops once dominated the area.
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LUAS TRAM STOP AT BROADSTONE TESTING iOS 16 IN JUNE 2022
The Luas Green Line, serves the DIT Campus in Grangegorman with two Luas stops called Broadstone – DIT and Grangegorman. This connects Broadstone Plaza from Constitution Hill to Grangegorman. The Luas continues northwards to Broombridge railway station along the old Broadstone Railway line and southbound to Phibsboro and Dublin City Centre.
On thing that I have considered is switching from mirrorless cameras to iPhones or other smartphones. I have today, 7 June 2022, installed iOS 16 on my iPhone 12 Pro Max and took the opportunity to capture some images locally. In many ways I am very impressed by the iPhone as a camera but I don’t really enjoy using it as much as using a normal camera with a viewfinder. I should mention that I used the Apple camera app and Halide Mark II.
iOS 16 is the 16th and upcoming major release of the iOS mobile operating system developed by Apple for its iPhone line of products. It was announced at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference on June 6, 2022, as the successor to iOS 15.
The public version of iOS 16 is expected to be released in late 2022, while the public beta is expected to become available in July 2022.
Halide couples the power of a DSLR camera with a clutter-free interface you can control with one thumb. Intuitive gestures, modelled after the focus and exposure dials on an old-school camera, make pros feel at home while capturing gorgeous ML-enhanced RAW images. And with Halide II’s support for Siri Shortcuts and a dedicated Apple Watch app, snapping the shutter from afar is a breeze.
STREET ART AND MORE PHOTOGRAPHED IN BELFAST DURING MAY 2015
This visit I extended the definition of urban expression to include buildings, commercial signage, buildings and what could be described as commercial street art.
I am currently reviewing my catalogue of photographs of Belfast City and where possible I am reprocessing them with better software if and when possible. The files are also much smaller.
I cannot remember why I did not visit Belfast during 2013 and my visit in 2014 did not go well because it rained constantly for most of my visit and I returned home ahead of schedule with fewer than 600 photographs. This year [2015] the weather was more than disappointing but this time I had proper rain gear and the camera was also better orojected even though I was still using the Sony NEX-7.
URBAN EXPRESSION IN BELFAST INCLUDING STREET ART JUNE 2014
I am currently reviewing my catalogue of photographs of Belfast City and where possible I am reprocessing them with better software if and when possible.
I cannot remember why I did not visit Belfast during 2013 and my visit in 2014 did not go well because it rained constantly for most of my visit and I returned home ahead of schedule with fewer than 600 photographs.
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