My Limerick. Photos by Stan. ;) -WARNING: Dialup Death]

munstergirl

Nice pics stan!
Good to see the normal side of limerick.

Scarlett68

Stan the man

^^ Scarlett68 Very nice and original. Without fireworks, but very colorful. From tomorrow I'll be looking for a woman with a camera. :pac:

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I'm very angry, because today I lost my tripod. Without it, the pictures of fireworks, are terrible. :eek:

But it was a wonderful evening. Thousands of people, great atmosphere, without accidents.

Cheers

Stan the man

:eek:

electron

did you get any pics of the traffic situation, as it was today? :pac:

thefishone

Excellent pictures,thanks everyone.

boodlesdoodles

Fantastic pix Stan. Limerick looks very beautiful in them and rightly so

dave 27

does anyone else not think the castle should have perminant lights fitted like they did last night? it would look so much better!

phog

dave 27 wrote: »

does anyone else not think the castle should have perminant lights fitted like they did last night? it would look so much better!

The problem is that the lights there last night would be covered in a half decent high tide. I agree the castle, city hall and the courthouse could do with some extra lighting, they would spectacular in a high tide when it is perfectly calm.

dave 27

phog wrote: »

The problem is that the lights there last night would be covered in a half decent high tide. I agree the castle, city hall and the courthouse could do with some extra lighting, they would spectacular in a high tide when it is perfectly calm.

that wouldnt be any problem tho if some thinking went behind it. I only noticed really how dark the city centre is when i saw all this extra lighting

Stan the man

To be continued....

Stan the man

To be continued...

Stan the man

To be continued..

Stan the man

Mc Love

Great photo's Stan!

Cateym

Great photos Stan!

dave 27

whats sad about those paddys day pics is that this is what the city should look like but its a ghost town on the average day..only maybe 10 years ago this could have been a typical day in town

Stan the man

Thank You Mc Love, thank You Cateym.

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Limerick - general view : 1880 - 1916







Limerick - general view : literally today

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Regards

Stan the man

Stan the man

1880-1914





Yesterday

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Mc Love

The water is so calm in the older pics - never seen it like that

Stan the man

Mc Love wrote: »

The water is so calm in the older pics - never seen it like that

I thought about it too. I think this is the case for human intervention in the twentieth century in the river (the water system).

Edges were mild. Plants at the edge and don't clean the river bottom.
This is what I think, but I don't know.

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Is it possible in Limerick to rent a canoe or boat, or sail with someone the river? Do you know anything about it?

Stab*City

you can rent boats in killaloe/ballina..

Mc Love

Stan the man wrote: »

I thought about it too. I think this is the case for human intervention in the twentieth century in the river (the water system).

Edges were mild. Plants at the edge and don't clean the river bottom.
This is what I think, but I don't know.

Almost looks like a lake

Scarlett68

Stan the man wrote: »

I thought about it too. I think this is the case for human intervention in the twentieth century in the river (the water system).

Edges were mild. Plants at the edge and don't clean the river bottom.
This is what I think, but I don't know.

I dont have the stats for this but I'd assume its to do with the building of Ardnacrusha Hydro-electric station in 1929...the volume of water released by the ESB passing through Limerick is hugely increased because of it!.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardnacrusha

phog

Mc Love wrote: »

The water is so calm in the older pics - never seen it like that

It could also have to do with the turning tide, at times, the river can look lake like at the point just before the tide turns to be an outgoing tide, especially when ther's no wind.

CCSL

I took a nice panorama of Limerick from the top of Woodcock Hill this morning.

Amazing to see how Limerick looks so small and how it sits surrounded by countryside.

Wont embed the file here as its 9.5MB

But you can see it over at Clevr.com ( Dont forget to zoom out to see it properly and you can pan the image with your mouse )

Link [ Here ]

Must go back and take the same shot at night.

You can download the full size photo from [ Here ]

Rokit

CCSL wrote: »

I took a nice panorama of Limerick from the top of Woodcock Hill this morning.

Amazing to see how Limerick looks so small and how it sits surrounded by countryside.

Wont embed the file here as its 9.5MB

But you can see it over at Clevr.com ( Dont forget to zoom out to see it properly and you can pan the image with your mouse )

Link [ Here ]

Must go back and take the same shot at night.

You can download the full size photo from [ Here ]

It is very sharp, what camera did you use? On a clear morning it would look a lot better!! Nice pic!

CCSL

Rokit wrote: »

It is very sharp, what camera did you use? On a clear morning it would look a lot better!! Nice pic!

I use all Pentax gear that was taken with a Pentax Km. 14 Pics stitched no tripod. It was foggy this morning, I will probably go back on a better day but this time i'm not hiking up the flipping hill!!:)

Stan the man

Not bad.

You have amazing skills, equipment and good ideas.

Regards

Stan

CCSL

Stan the man wrote: »

Not bad.

You have amazing skills, equipment and good ideas.

Regards

Stan

They suddenly got the idea for showing old and current potos of Limerick with the same shot

Wonder where they got that idea??? :rolleyes: