Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2022/06/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I love the veneration for literature in Ireland. I have not read Ulysses, the only Joyce book I have read is Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (and I loved that one), and a more modern work, When All is Said by Anne Griffin, whom I consider a genius. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman photo at frozenlight.eu http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.frozenlight.eu YNWA > On 17 Jun 2022, at 01:18, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote: > > Scenes from today's James Joyce's Bloomsday festival in Blackrock which > had street theatre on the Main St. with both extracts and music from the > book. > > I had been going to head over to the Forty Foot at Sandycove for the > traditional morning swim photographs, especially as it's 100 years since > the publication of Ulysses, and meet up with friends for dinner, but > haven't been well and parked that idea. There's a dreadful lurgy levelling > many people over here. It fairly flattened everyone in the house, and I'm > just recovering after a couple of courses of antibiotics. So a quiet > Joycean centenary for me as I just took a quick set of shots, and left. > > Nine photos in all, and all taken with my Sony A7II with FE Sonnar 55/1.8. > I brought too short a lens as there was a big crowd so I was further away > from the actors than I would have liked. > Can be seen larger. > > Start here > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Dublin/Blackrock/Bloomsday+Blackrock+2022+1.jpg.html > > and click to the right. > > Comments and criticism welcome. > > Douglas > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information