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My First 3
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These were the very first shots I took back in 1994 that inspired me to keep on looking at life through a lense….
Sorry for being a bit grainy, very old camera….
North Earl Street Dublin
The car has a Fermanagh Registration number, DIL. I would say some poor Fermanagh tourist has gone for a coffee and returned to find his car blown up. In the North, we used to do it to Southern coffee drinkers in the 1970’s and 80’s as well……….. :lol:
Very funny Brandyman! I remember when we lived in the UK in the late 80’s til the mid 90’s we had a real southern reg car over there, with the red reg plates on a bright yellow bucket of a VW Golf….My dads job happened to be RIGHT beside an army barracks. He literally put a huge cardboard sign in the window saying where he workd and where anyone that was suspicious could contact him. Without failing, the M.O.D. would go looking for him almost every day. Thankfully, his car never got blown up.
Yeah, coffee drinkers got a hard time back in those days…. Needless to say I was so excited by the whole thing I shot so much film and ran out as they did the controlled explosion! Still nice to have these 3 as my first shots….
Rene,
At least you learnt at least 2 things from the experience. To have some patience to try to anticipate what might happen later and secondly to carry more film. I think we’ve all had to learn these lessons the hardway. I know I have!
Not bad shots for your first 3 back in ’94 either!
Pete.
and you even managed to get Inspector Morse in the first shot!! Well done Rene :wink:
Yeah, 50mm lens on a Zenith 12XP, at least knowing now it was made out of old Russian Tank scrap metal, it would have survived a blast! LOL
Needless to say, I carry my camera gear with me everytime I leave the house, you just never know what you might see…. its a good habit…
brandyman wrote:
In the North, we used to do it to Southern coffee drinkers in the 1970’s and 80’s as well……….. :lol:
Years ago my dad was doing some work in the north and parked his car in the carpark of a supermarket.
He went inside to do repairs on the air conditioning and was working away until an announcement came over the PA system
asking “could the owner of vehicle registration blah blah blah please report to the customer service desk”
He went up thinking he was blocking someone or he had left his lights on but was amazed to find that some of Belfasts
less desirable citizens had decided not to wait for halloween and instead use his car for a bonfire. The whole thing was a blaze.So Mr. Brandyman if you have any information regarding the torcing of a red ford cortina in the early eighties can you please contact
me. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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