Another sub­mis­sion for the photo com­pet­i­tion. This one was for the cat­egory “The Epi­tome of Maynooth”.

Last year, the Tra­di­tion Music Soci­ety played every other Wed­nes­day even­ing in the “Brady’s”, one of the nicer and prob­ably the most “ori­ginal” pubs of Maynooth (maybe “authen­tic” is a bet­ter word). Unfor­tu­nately, these gigs have got­ten fewer and fewer, so I hope the Trad Soc will get a bit more organ­ised again to put those won­der­ful ses­sions of tra­di­tional Irish music on again!

Blurred in the back­ground is Joey work­ing away on the gui­tar, the Uilleann pipes in the for­ground were played by Yoann (this is a tra­di­tion Irish instru­ment, some­what sim­ilar but still quite dif­fer­ent to the Scot­tish bag­pipes you’re all famil­iar with.)

To get some of the nice old-folks’-pub atmo­sphere into the pic­ture I pro­cessed it with to a sepia tone (some­thing I’m not too fond of, usu­ally). This photo is again one out of a great many, shot in 5 pic­tures per second burst mode to be able to pick the one with the least cam­era shake (1/​5^th of a second is rather long for hand-​holding a lens at 75mm equi­val­ent) but best motion blur on the fin­gers fly­ing across the pipes.