I still haven’t got­ten around post­ing any pho­tos from our recent week­end trip to Cork, a lovely city in the south west of Ire­land.

On our sight­see­ing walk­about we also went past the cam­pus of the Uni­ver­sity Col­lege Cork (UCC). When we came past the stu­dent res­id­ences, I couldn’t believe what I saw: In the centre of a circle of build­ings was this “christ­mas tree” of no less than six CCTV cam­eras…! [By the way, CCTV stands for “Closed Cir­cuit Tele­Vi­sion”].

Well, let’s hope this much sur­veil­lance is really neces­sary, and helps pre­vent oh so many crimes…

In terms of pho­to­graphy, this was pretty straight­for­ward thing. Shot at an angle to cre­ate some more ten­sion, I pro­cessed it to sepia tones as it was a grey, unspec­tac­u­lar day. I under­ex­posed care­fully not to blow out the sky, and had the aper­ture closed down to ƒ/​10 to get a max­imum amount of detail and reduce lens flare in this back­light situ­ation. Finally a few select­ive dodge and burns here and there were needed to bring out the cam­eras a bit more.

PS: More pho­tos from the Cork trip here.