Good Shepherd statue in the courtyard of St. Colman Catholic Church, a landmark to Cleveland’s Irish.

Another pic from the Pride of Erin shot with black & white film and the Canon AE1. Miss those days. Oh, and for those who don’t know me – yes, I am in the photo.

A really quiet Saturday afternoon on Main Street, Newport, Co. Mayo, Ireland. Shot this Sept. 19, 2009, on tour with the Cleveland Irish Players, who were performing that evening in Parochial Hall. Notice the flower box. No matter the season, there seem to be some bright flowers on the streets of Irish towns. It’s a really nice touch, especially considering that it can get quite gray and dreary during the late autumn and winter months.

Also notice the phone box. No phone in it, though. In fact, you’d have to drive about a half hour to either Castlebar or Westport to find a payphone. Cell phones have killed the small town phone boxes. It’s a classic, though. Gives the street a bit of flavor.

If you’ve never been to Newport, it has a quality that’s a bit hard to explain. The place has character, a sense of history and a personality like an old friend. I’m not from there and my people aren’t from there, either. Still, I get homesick for the place. Would love to be sitting in Brannen’s with a pint in front of me and good friends beside me.

Shot at the Pride of Erin, a landmark Irish bar on Cleveland’s West Side. The taboo car keys really not an unusual sight at this working class haven. Neither is one of the loveliest pints you’ll find this side of the Atlantic. (Shot with Canon AE-1, scanned negative.)

Night shooting can be a lot of fun – not just in getting wacky results like the image above, but it’s a lot of fun to just improvise who’s in the shot and what you want to do and if you have nontraditional light sources (like the car lights running down the street and the barely registering glow stick on a string in my daughter’s hand).

Just screwing around with a long shutter speed and a flash can yield some really cool stuff. Hence the photo above (6 seconds, f11 and ISO 400). A lot can happen in six seconds – after the flash froze us we moved out of those poses, the car came past the house with only its lights captured, and the tree leaves and houses across the street were captured nicely.

It’s common for us to think that cameras capture “reality” – actually, they capture a reality our human eyes never see. It’s pretty cool stuff whose possibilities are as endless as your willingness to discover. Gotta love it!

– TMulloy

With Cleveland’s Browns and Cavs both playing as cold as the outside temperature, at least the city’s Indians play the bulk of their games in the warm rays of the summer sun. So I hope this image of a fiberglass Slider warms the cockles of your sporting heart.

No, Slider’s not waiting for the season to start, but the photo is just a reminder that pitchers and catchers for most MLB teams report to camp two months from tomorrow.

Oh, and somebody in the American League scheduling office evidently has a sense of humor. Cleveland opens its 2011 season at home vs. the Chicago White Sox on … April Fool’s Day – Friday, April 1, 2011.

Play (snow)Ball!

(Photo taken Oct. 4, 2007, during opening game of Cleveland Indians vs. New York Yankees AL Division Series)

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If you’re east of the Mississippi and north of the Mason-Dixon, you either can see this out your window now or you will soon.

This March 2008 shot looks like a rural scene, but it’s actually a street in the West Park neighborhood inside Cleveland’s city limits. I took it while walking home from the RTA Rapid Transit station near my home.

This is one of the images – Autograms, I call them – that hung with the November exhibit at the Flying Monkey Pub in Tremont. The exhibit consisted of 20 images of city streets at dusk or after dark shot with long exposure times and intentionally blurred through movement of the camera with the shutter open.

I shot them about two years ago on various nights while driving my car – hence the term “Autogram.” You can make out the interstate signs, stop lights and other miscellaneous signs in some of them.

A  little like painting with light, but certainly not as sophisticated. Just different – and filled with surprises.

View the gallery here Autograms: Flying Monkey Exhibit, November 2010