The Essence of Dublin

Lao Lao

So, I have been asked to do a set of photo's for a family member and the brief is pretty vague

They want, 'something that says Dublin, but a little bit quirky'

So far, I'm thinking of the following although not quite sure what the quirky element will be on all of them

St James Gate
Croke Park
Customs House
Christ Church
St Patricks Cathedral
Dublin Castle
O'Connell / Grafton St
Ha'Penny Bridge
Poolbeg Towers

Anything glaringly obvious I'm missing or any inspiring ideas?

Promac

The women selling fruit out of prams on Capel St/Henry St. They always kind of sum up dublin for me and make a good street photo.

vicwatson

Out the bull wall

Dollymount & Sandymount Strand

Phoenix Park

pixbyjohn

Get a shot on Moore Street of the fruit sellers
A shot of a newborn babe at the entrance of the National Maternity Hospital at Holles Street and maybe a shot of Guinness gates

paudgenator

Grand Canal..the locks/barges etc

Scortho

Grand Canal dock maybe near the theatre with the alto vetro in the background!
Henrietta St is another place to look at! really quiet up there as well!

CianRyan

Merion Square and the general area, Baggot Street down by the Canal?

Sir Gallagher

A suited and booted piebald standing on top of the spire snorting a tesco bag full of heroin infused Dom Perignon should do the job.

Bluefoam

Theres a guy sells photos in Georges arcade (on the narrow side at Georges St end). He has assembles lots of photos to make one complete photos and his subject matters are things like the Iveagh Buildings... very recognisable & iconic... as Dub living abroad, these struck me as very Dublin and quite quirky. I bought a couple & will buy more next time I'm home.

Have a look at what he's up to... & then find your own direction... for me, his photos show the potential; of what can be done.

Promac

Bluefoam wrote: »

Theres a guy sells photos in Georges arcade (on the narrow side at Georges St end). He has assembles lots of photos to make one complete photos and his subject matters are things like the Iveagh Buildings... very recognisable & iconic... as Dub living abroad, these struck me as very Dublin and quite quirky. I bought a couple & will buy more next time I'm home.

Have a look at what he's up to... & then find your own direction... for me, his photos show the potential; of what can be done.

Is that Humberklog?

Bluefoam

Iveagh Buildings
Old Warehouses at Hanover Quay
Cottages in Portabello
Georgian Houses/Streetscape
Georges Arcade
O'Donoghues Shopfront & Laneway
Various Bridges across Liffey
Smithfield Markets
Grand Canal Dock
Georges Dock
Liberty Hall
Gas Building on Westmoreland St
Bull Island Bridge
The Stags Head
Statues & Sculpures... Phillo, Molly, Padraig, Pat Kavanagh, footsteps on north quays & goldfish trapped inside lights recessed into ground
Blackrock Baths (if they are still standing)

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Herbert Park Bandstands
St Annes Park Follies
Georgian Railings
Gargoyles on Nassau St
Powerscourt Town House


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Bolands Mills & adjacent buildings
Canal Locks & Barges

munchkin_utd

Dublin has the most chronic anti social behaviour in the most prominent of places so maybe try and capture that?
Maybe someday there'll be an effort to clean up the city and this integral part of the inner city will be lost forever. Its THE essence of the city that always sticks in my memory when thinking of the city from afar.

So first I'd suggest looking on O Connell st. Theres always heaps of characters hanging about there in the centre of the street at the junction with Abbey St.
Maybe go for a pint in messers and wait for druggies to come up looking for cash. Background of the river/ high level railway beidge.
Check out the various luas ticket machines, the Heuston station one would be a good scene, scumbag in the foreground and magnificent building in the background
Theres plenty of characters in various side alleys off Abbey St but lighting may be difficult there.

The only problem you may have is scumbags who you are photographing robbing your camera so you'd want to consider whether it'd be worth trying to capture what is the true living essence of Dublin city.

Bluefoam

munchkin_utd wrote: »

Dublin has the most chronic anti social behaviour in the most prominent of places so maybe try and capture that?
Maybe someday there'll be an effort to clean up the city and this integral part of the inner city will be lost forever. Its THE essence of the city that always sticks in my memory when thinking of the city from afar.

So first I'd suggest looking on O Connell st. Theres always heaps of characters hanging about there in the centre of the street at the junction with Abbey St.
Maybe go for a pint in messers and wait for druggies to come up looking for cash. Background of the river/ high level railway beidge.
Check out the various luas ticket machines, the Heuston station one would be a good scene, scumbag in the foreground and magnificent building in the background
Theres plenty of characters in various side alleys off Abbey St but lighting may be difficult there.

The only problem you may have is scumbags who you are photographing robbing your camera so you'd want to consider whether it'd be worth trying to capture what is the true living essence of Dublin city.

& Munich is lovely, I swear, no junkies at all.

bullpost

The Dail when there's a protest outside - which is most of the time right now.

humberklog

Bluefoam wrote: »

Theres a guy sells photos in Georges arcade (on the narrow side at Georges St end). He has assembles lots of photos to make one complete photos and his subject matters are things like the Iveagh Buildings... very recognisable & iconic... as Dub living abroad, these struck me as very Dublin and quite quirky. I bought a couple & will buy more next time I'm home.

Have a look at what he's up to... & then find your own direction... for me, his photos show the potential; of what can be done.

Eh, yikes. Thanks very much:).

vic20

Lao Lao wrote: »

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They want, 'something that says Dublin, but a little bit quirky'
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Anything glaringly obvious I'm missing or any inspiring ideas?

A signpost for Cork...?

Sir Gallagher

munchkin_utd wrote: »

Dublin has the most chronic anti social behaviour in the most prominent of places so maybe try and capture that?
Maybe someday there'll be an effort to clean up the city and this integral part of the inner city will be lost forever. Its THE essence of the city that always sticks in my memory when thinking of the city from afar.

So first I'd suggest looking on O Connell st. Theres always heaps of characters hanging about there in the centre of the street at the junction with Abbey St.
Maybe go for a pint in messers and wait for druggies to come up looking for cash. Background of the river/ high level railway beidge.
Check out the various luas ticket machines, the Heuston station one would be a good scene, scumbag in the foreground and magnificent building in the background
Theres plenty of characters in various side alleys off Abbey St but lighting may be difficult there.

The only problem you may have is scumbags who you are photographing robbing your camera so you'd want to consider whether it'd be worth trying to capture what is the true living essence of Dublin city.

Somebody's afraid of the big bad city..poor baby.

Scortho

Maybe something like the old redbrick warehouses on the way up towards grand Canal dock just after the samuel beckett bridge!
Has anyone mentioned the Pigeon House Towers?
The grand Masonic lodge of ireland as well