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DUBLINBIKES DOCKING STATION 03 ON BOLTON STREET

April 22, 2023 by infomatique

THERE ARE MANY RESTAURANTS NEARBY ESPECIALLY ON CAPEL STREET

The Docking Station is outside Bolton Street College which is in the process of moving to the new University Campus at Grangegorman.

Because of the college many restaurants have opened over the years because the owners expected to attract a lot of student business but almost all closed within two or three years. However, BoCo, which does not depend on student business, has proved to be a huge success and if you like pizza it is highly recommended. Recently I noticed that the Taco Libre (pub restaurant operated by the Galway Brewery Company) has closed and the El Patron Mexican Street Food restaurant across the street has become the Tia Maria Brazilian Restaurant. The Art Flamingo recently became the Burger House but when I visited it a few weeks ago I was told that it would close again and reopen under new management. A few doors along the street a new restaurant is being outfitted but I have no further information.

Early in 2013 I purchased a Sigma Dp3 Merrill and while it could produce the best images ever it was in reality a disaster. The batteries could at times last only long enough to capture 40 images [at best no more than 80] and one could forget about selecting any setting other ISO 100. In order to process RAW images one needed to use Sigma’s Photo Pro 5.5 which was supplied with the camera.

Recently I discovered that Photo Pro 6.8.3 was much more user friendly than the version supplied with the camera so I decided to charge all eight batteries, that I still had, and use the camera for a day (22 April 2021) but unfortunately the weather proved to be way too wet. Two of the batteries were exhausted after ten captures.

The DP3 Merrill was the latest of a trio of almost identical compact cameras released by Sigma, all named for Dick Merrill (1949-2008), the co-developer of the Foveon image capture system. The DP1 Merrill and DP2 Merrill were announced in early February 2012. The former features a 19mm f/2.8 lens that provides the equivalent of a 28mm field of view in 35mm format, while the DP2 Merrill has a 30mm f/2.8 lens with a field of view equivalent to 45mm. Unveiled on 8 January, 2013, the DP3 Merrill sports a 50mm f/2.8 lens with a 75mm equivalent focal length that is ideal for portraiture.

DUBLINBIKES DOCKING STATION 29 ON ORMOND QUAY

April 22, 2023 by infomatique

I USED AN OLD SIGMA DP3 MERRILL

Ormond Quay was the first of the quays to be built on the north bank side of the River Liffey, complete by c. 1680, developed by Sir Humphrey Jervis and named in honour of the Duke of Ormond who instigated the trend for building houses facing the river.

DUBLINBIKES DOCKING STATION 26

April 21, 2023 by infomatique

AT MERRION SQUARE WEST

All the original 18th century properties in Merrion Square have survived to the present day except for Antrim House which was demolished to make way for the National Maternity Hospital in the 1930s. Three sides are lined with Georgian redbrick townhouses; the West side abuts the grounds of Leinster House (seat of the Oireachtas), Government Buildings, the Natural History Museum and the National Gallery. The central railed-off garden is now a public park.

The Wellington Testimonial to commemorate the victories of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, was originally planned to be located in Merrion Square. However it was built in the Phoenix Park after opposition from the square’s residents.

DUBLINBIKES DOCKING STATION 64 – SANDWICH STREET ON A WET DAY

March 29, 2023 by infomatique

MARCH 2023 USING AN iPHONE 12 PRO MAX

If you use this docking station it might interest you to learn that at the corners of Sandwith Street and Fenian Street there replica of the former Archer’s Garage, designed by Arnold Francis Hendy and completed in 1946.

On the June bank holiday weekend, 1999, the art deco, grade 1 listed garage on Fenian Street was illegally demolished by contractors working for the O’Callaghan hotel group. A public outcry followed, and while developer Noel O’Callaghan claimed this was the reason why he reconstructed the Garage, he was in fact ordered by Dublin City Council on threat of a €1,000,000 fine and/or imprisonment. The reconstruction is far from accurate to the original and I was more than a little disappointed having lived close to the original for about seven years.

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DUBLINBIKES DOCKING STATION 20 AT JAMES STREET EAST

March 23, 2023 by infomatique

PHOTOGRAPHED 18 MARCH 2023

This is not where I would have expected East James Street to be located. Anyway, the docking station is beside Miesian Plaza on Baggot Street.

In 2015 Dublin City Council granted permission, at the end of January, to ESB Commercial Properties Ltd for plans that included demolition of all 20th-century buildings on the block, the renovation and reuse of nine Georgian houses, and change of use of part of another.

The three-acre site comprises a city block, bounded by Lower Fitzwilliam Street, Upper Mount Street, James’s Street East and Lower Baggot Street, and includes ESB’s headquarters. To the best of my knowledge the original houses on James Street East were demolished in the 1950s.