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Got a minute? Kindly have a deco at the above photo, wherein I've attempted - by means of the Camera+ app - to give the image a noirish feel. You know the kind of thing I mean: "I was downtown, stone cold sober, on my way to an appointment with destiny." Taken on Friday last (17th February, 2012), in a small alleyway off Dame Street, Dublin (I'm not 100% certain, but I think it may be called Dame Court), capturing the picture entailed standing around for quite a spell due to a steady stream of pedestrians filing through - not to mention ducking down! - the laneway. I wanted to achieve an uncluttered grab of the narrow vista and so waited and waited for the propitious moment to arrive. I've no doubt I aroused the suspicion of many a passerby as I hung around pacing restlessly and generally looking furtive. Eventually, when all seemed clear and the stream of Joe and Josephine Publics had abated for a minute, I ra...

Although - as can be clearly seen from the above photograph - it was taken on a grey morning, I am neither a vampire or a victim nor had I stumbled out of a hole in the ground prior to capturing this eerie moment. Au contraire , I was my usual upbeat self - positioned on Capel Street Bridge - on a recent Monday morning when this ghostly paradigm of things caught my eye in the Liffey water. It's the people on the Ha'penny Bridge (right of the shot) that I think most about - the ones upside down in the river that is. I mean, are they walking around still? In some parallel universe? It's certainly giving me pause for thought. But, cripes, my mind is wandering and racing and I haven't even been blazing. Best to be quiet, eh? However, do please take a moment to enjoy the picture. With deeep humility, Brian:-)