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Thanks guys, yeah the Yeast Company was bought a couple of years ago though, IIRC the guy who owned the place kept it going well into his 90's. Bowes have also been thwarted, they wanted to extend the pub all the way through into the Yeast Company building. Only a matter of time before someone with a wad of cash makes it go away. Best case scenario is the sign is retained with some novelty window dressing :-/

DaireQuinlan wrote: »

Thanks guys, yeah the Yeast Company was bought a couple of years ago though, IIRC the guy who owned the place kept it going well into his 90's. Bowes have also been thwarted, they wanted to extend the pub all the way through into the Yeast Company building. Only a matter of time before someone with a wad of cash makes it go away. Best case scenario is the sign is retained with some novelty window dressing :-/

I saw this recently about the place.

Something like this should really be taken over by the state in some fashion. It's absolutely unique in Dublin.

cnocbui wrote: »

I use Firefox, which does not automatically down-scale large photos posted to boards ...

I use Firefox, and for me that picture has been down-scaled from the original >4000px wide to a still excessive 1100-ish.

CelticRambler wrote: »

I use Firefox, and for me that picture has been down-scaled from the original >4000px wide to a still excessive 1100-ish.

You on a Mac?

Has anyone seen Myksyk?
Missing his weekly POTW results...

Myksyk wrote: »

Here .... just holidays, work, sickness, life!!! About to update!

Hi Myksyk,

Hope the sickness wasn't serious! The rest you will have to just cope with

Adrian

Tchernobill wrote: »

What's the story behind this image?

Re: Pet Dog by Patrick Dinneen, on Flickr

Nice shot, hope you don't mind that my photography OCD got the better of me and autoleveled your pooch.

Thanks Keps!
As ye probably know yourselves, it was shot at 100mm so he wasn't so close to the edge !

Very nice shot. Fair play.

Morrisseeee wrote: »

Adrian.Sadlier wrote: »

Waiting by Adrian Sadlier, on Flickr

Beautiual capture - I take it you are somewhere 'hot'.:)


Looks like a Black-Winged Kite - generally lives in Saharan Africa but strays into Spain and Portugal also

cnocbui wrote: »

Do herons migrate - as in go away someplace else? He asks, somewhat hopefully.

The Irish Grey Herons stay all year round here

Why Cnocbui? Have you fish in a pond?

Edit: Ah, I think I know why!

magicbastarder wrote: »

would love to know how this was taken. was the fox just extremely tame/relaxed, or was it taken remotely?

Hi Magicbastarder,

This is one of two foxes I have been trying to photograph at night for a while now.
Getting this shot has taken about a month sitting and watching,she routinely follows the same path every night checking the same gardens etc, so I just sat on the path, kerb opposite her route with out a camera for a few weeks on and off till she got used to me. (the Gardai have been called a couple of times)
Eventually she got used to me and has confidence that I wont hurt her, I am just part of the street to her now.
On occasion she has just sat beside me and she stinks.

This was taken on a 35mm F1.4 lens at ISO5000 using street lights.

The other fox is proving a little harder to shoot as it bolts every time I drive into the area. This one strangely knows the car and has on occasion come up to greet me.
I get the impression some people on the road may leave food for her which has helped, I on the other hand have never done so.

Patience has been the key.

This is the start of a project on urban nightlife if anyone has a heads up on other nocturnal animals around south Dublin i would be grateful.

bernard0368 wrote: »

Hi Magicbastarder,

This is one of two foxes I have been trying to photograph at night for a while now.
Getting this shot has taken about a month sitting and watching,she routinely follows the same path every night checking the same gardens etc, so I just sat on the path, kerb opposite her route with out a camera for a few weeks on and off till she got used to me. (the Gardai have been called a couple of times)
Eventually she got used to me and has confidence that I wont hurt her, I am just part of the street to her now.
On occasion she has just sat beside me and she stinks.

This was taken on a 35mm F1.4 lens at ISO5000 using street lights.

The other fox is proving a little harder to shoot as it bolts every time I drive into the area. This one strangely knows the car and has on occasion come up to greet me.
I get the impression some people on the road may leave food for her which has helped, I on the other hand have never done so.

Patience has been the key.

This is the start of a project on urban nightlife if anyone has a heads up on other nocturnal animals around south Dublin i would be grateful.

Wow, that's some effort. I just poke the camera out the back door and press the button. ;-)

cnocbui wrote: »

Wow, that's some effort. I just poke the camera out the back door and press the button. ;-)

That is the happiest looking fox I've ever seen! Was he laughing at you or with you?

TomSweeney wrote: »

Wow, I never thought I'd see a fox happy alongside cats!

He's a very chill fox. We were a bit worried he'd make a snack of one of the kittens in that pic, when they were about a third that size, but he didn't. The mother cat gives him unwarranted grief while he gives no bother. Another ginger kitten, not in the pic, is fascinated by him and gets very close.

There's a pile of left-over pavers stacked near the kitchen window, to make it easier on the cats to get to the window ledge, because often we'll drop stuff out the window for them. I can tell you, it's a really odd sight to see a fox standing on your kitchen window ledge. :eek:

My mother (living in D14) has a visiting fox with a shoe fetish. The last time I visited, there was a pile of odd shoes outside the back door and definitely not either my mother's or father's style. Mam explained that single shoes started appearing in the back garden during the spring, two or three a week. Eventually, early one morning she spotted the fox coming over the wall with a shoe in his mouth, playing with it for a bit, then scarpering.

She still has no idea where he's getting them from, but the supply has dwindled in recent months! :pac: If anyone spots someone walking around Rathfarnham with only one shoe, tell them to ask my mother if she the other one! :pac:

Anyone else think the size should be upped to 1000 pixels? Not many left on dial-up and 800 just doesn't work for skinny panoramas.

storker wrote: »

Architecture from different periods, New York City.

Is it just me and my monitor settings, or does they sky appear almost mauve to anyone else?