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Irishman in the Middle East
Goa – In a single shot
Posted on April 24, 2015
A picture paints a thousand words. Sometimes. Take a look at this one – Read More
Weekly Photo Challenge – Early Bird
Posted on April 17, 2015
Sun worshipers await the Summer solstice sunrise at Grange Stone Circle, Limerick, South West Ireland on 21 June 2014.
Goa – Basilica of Bom Jesus
Posted on April 17, 2015
The word ‘bom’ in Portuguese means ‘good’. Like ‘bon’ in French. But enough of MB’s language lessons! Read More
Fallout
Posted on April 16, 2015
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. So said Mr Newton. Read More
Weekly Photo Challenge – Afloat
Posted on April 11, 2015
Weekly Photo Challenge – Blur
Posted on April 4, 2015
MB doesn’t do ‘blurry‘. MB’s pics are razor sharp. You could cut your finger on an MB pic by the merest of touches. Touch at your peril!
However, MB has a number of paintings photos that he has never before released to the general donkeys public. He has kept them under wraps – until now that is – on account of fact he didn’t really want to start a collapse in the world art markets as everyone threw their Monets & Van Goghs into their rubbish bins and flocked to the auctions houses that were lucky enough to negotiate sales contracts with MB. Too many jobs depend!
Anyway. Here’s MB submission this week. It’s called – Istanbul. An impression.
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It’s sandy in the desert
Posted on April 2, 2015
Taksim Square
Posted on April 1, 2015
MB wrapped his cold hands ’round a cup of hot coffee. In a cozy coffee shop overlooking Taksim Square.
He munched on a slice Turkish cake sitting by a window on the upper floor. There are so many Turkish cakes. And Turkish goodies of so many sorts they are like the stars in the heavens. MB finished his cake and wandered outside, cup in hand. He stood on the narrow balcony to view the sights below. The square spread out from MB’s coffee-drinking vantage point where visitors and locals alike enjoyed the open spaces of the famous square.
An elderly lady sells bird seed for peanuts to those who might like to fed the pigeons. In Taksim there are so many pigeons. More pigeons than people. The pigeons enjoy the free food. It’s far better that scavenging for a living like pigeons in other parts of Istanbul. If MB was a Turkish pigeon he would like to live in Taksim. He would not like to live in low pigeon-income locations having to scrimp and scrape day in day out.
MB likes to take pics. He didn’t have his camera at Taksim. But he had his iPad-mini gadget and gave it a go.
Next week MB will be taking himself to Panjim on the Mandovi river estuary. He will say hello to Vasco De Gama and also get to meet St Francis Xavier in the flesh. Even though SFX died in December 1552. No kidding.
But in the interim here’s a few of MB’s iPad shots from Taksim:
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