SEPTEMBER 1999 – View along French’s Quay in Cork, Ireland, with the Saint Fin Barre’s Cathedral in the back. Photo © by Mark Zanzig/zanzig.com
The story behind the image
County Cork in Ireland is a beautiful space, and Cork is a small, vibrant city full of beautiful photo opportunities.
The sun was about to set as we walked along a side arm of the River Lee. At French’s Quay the sun was reflecting in one of the windows triggering yet another nice photo. In 2024, Forde’s Funeral Home and D. Forde & Sons – the two buildings at the end of the Quay – still looked like back in 1999 when I took the photo. Pete O’Sullivan, the home appliance store in the second house on the left, has turned into a modern Euronics store, and Southbank Moviews (probably a rental video store) has closed the business.
Comparing past and present, I have to tell you for transparency reasons that I removed the cables hanging across the street that were really cluttering the image. The cables were still present in May 2024 by the way. Here’s the original image as it came from the scanner:
Design ideas
The high resolution image
| Capture Date | September 1999 |
| Location | Cork, Ireland |
| Camera | Canon AE-1 Program |
| Lens | Canon FD 70-210 mm f/4 |
| Image Source | Fuji Slide Film |
| Digital Image Source | EPSON Perfection 4870 Photo |
| Digital Image Source Format | TIFF, 48 bits/pixel, sRGB |
| Edited Image Format | JPEG, 24 bits/pixel, sRGB |
| Edited Image Dimensions | 4280 x 6467 Pixels |
| Copyright | © by Mark Zanzig/zanzig.com |
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