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HEY MISTER I AM WALKING ON WATER

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THE BANDSTAND IN BLACKROCK PUBLIC PARK 23 FEBRUARY 2008

Blackrock Park is a pleasant green area overlooking Dublin Bay, in Blackrock County Dublin, and boasts a well equipped children’s playground, cycle path and trees. There is also a picturesque pond containing a small island, and swans can regularly been seen there. The Peace Fountain in the pond was constructed in 1986 to mark International Year for Peace.

As already mentioned I discovered that I had a disk with a large number of photographs from 2008 but for various reasons I could not access or process them until now [December 2022].

I do not remember owning a Canon 24-105mm lens and it is all the more annoying as I recently purchased a Sigma equivalent to use with my Canon 5D MkIII. I should explain, many years ago I purchased a Canon 5D camera and it was an excellent camera but I made the mistake of upgrading to a Canon 1Ds MKIII which proved too be a disaster because the camera was faulty. I returned the body to Canon a number of times but they failed to repair an inherent auto-focus problem so I gave up and decided to switch to Sony. I sold the 5D at a very good price and gifted some lenses to friends but no one was interested in the 1Ds.

About a year ago I decided that I was going to dump the 1Ds but discovered that it produced very good results in manual mode and as a result I purchased a number of second Canon and Sigma lenses.

Earlier this year my local dealer offered me an unused Canon 5D MkIII [it was a demo unit] at an amazing price and I agreed to purchase it providing a GPS unit was supplied with it. I was very pleased with the 5D and purchased a second hand Sigma 24-105 which can be attached to my Sony cameras via a Metabones adapter.

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A GUIDED TOUR

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GRANGEGORMAN UNIVERSITY CAMPUS ON A REALLY WET DAY

This was one of my first sessions with my new, but very old, Canon 5D MkIII. My local dealer contacted me indicating that a customer had won a 5D body when it was launched back in 2012 but had put in on shelf and had forgotten about it. The body was available to me a good price if I was interested. I asked to borrow the camera for a day or two. As I had a number of Canon EF lenses I was more than interested providing I could get a suitable GPS unit.

The GPS unit arrived and worked very well but it was not available for this session. However, I no longer have the funds to allow the purchase of the Sony A7RV which is due to be launched on the 26 October 2022. But I have the much less expensive FX3 cine-centric camera on order.

The Canon EOS 5D Mark III is a professional-grade 22.3 megapixels full-frame digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) camera made by Canon. Succeeding the EOS 5D Mark II, the Mark III was announced on 2 March 2012. This date coincided with the 25th anniversary of the announcement of the first camera in the EOS line, the EOS 650, and was also Canon’s 75th anniversary. The Mark III went on sale later in March with a retail price of $3,499 in the US, £2999 in the UK, and €3569 in the Eurozone. On 25 August 2016, Canon announced the camera’s successor, the Canon EOS 5D Mark IV.

Before I switched to Sony I had the original 5D which was my favourite DSLR.

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