At long last, the photos of our Irish road-trip are on-line.
Not as many photos as I would have liked have captions, because our current camera doesn’t allow a voice memo to be recorded at the time each photo is taken. That was a feature of our Minolta A2 that I really loved, as it rendered easy the captioning of photos weeks or even months after they were taken.
I don’t know why more cameras don’t offer the voice memo feature. It’s the cheaper, point-and-shoot cameras that tend to have this feature. The more expensive SLRs don’t. Perhaps camera manufacturers see this feature as a gimmick, something that would appeal to a casual holiday snapper, but not a serious user. For my part, it’s a mistake; I’d love to see this feature included in SLRs.
Anyway, the Irish photos are pretty good, but we didn’t take as many as we normally would have. The chief reason was that we couldn’t stop the car as often as we would have liked, for fear of Lucas being woken by the doors opening and closing.
The weather was also very, very dodgy a lot of the time. It was raining, the visibility was poor and the light was bad.
Nevertheless, there are still a great many photos in the gallery and putting them on-line took plenty of time. My personal favourites are the political murals of Belfast, which is hardly surprising, since Belfast itself was probably the highlight of the trip for me.