PORTOBELLO SWANS CHRISTMAS 2017

PORTOBELLO SWANS PHOTOGRAPHED BY WILLIAM MURPHY

Today I used a Zeiss Batis 25mm lens and I am convinced that it works much better with the Sony A7RIII than it did with the A7RII. I had intended to use the Mark II as a backup but I am reluctant to use it at all.

The name Portobello also describes the stretch of the Grand Canal leading from Robert Emmet Bridge (Clanbrassil Street) to the bridge from South Richmond Street to Rathmines. Although usually referred to as Portobello Bridge, the correct name is La Touche Bridge (named after William Digges La Touche (1747–1803), scion of a prominent Dublin business family and a director of the Grand Canal Company). Like the Portobello Road of London, Dublin's Portobello was named for the capture by Admiral Edward Vernon in 1739 of Portobelo, Colón on Panama's Caribbean Coast, during the conflict between the United Kingdom and Spain known as the War of
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