Canon 400D, 50mm, f1.4, 1/250, ISO200

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Called into the opening of the Quicksilver store in Stephen’s Green shopping centre last week. While admiring the colourful surf-y clothes and wondering how cold the bikini-clad hula girls and boys were, we spied none other than the Irish rugby team’s injured inside centre, Gordon Darcy, giggling as an illusionist performed some card tricks. He seemed completely oblivious to the not-very-discreet ogling that every red-blooded female in the place was doing.

I guess at some stage you must get used to those sidelong glances – you know the ones, we Irish are particularly good at them: When presented with a famous or kind-of famous person, we’re way too cool to outright stare, take out camera phones and ask them to autograph our boobs; Instead, we kind of shuffle around, looking nonchalant and shooting quick peeks over when we think they can’t see us.

I turned into a bit of a paparazzo and took a few shots, mainly to show to Eoghan, who had decided not to come (stinger).

Canon 400D, 50mm, f1.8, 1/100, ISO200

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More pics from the Quicksilver bash:

Canon 400D, 50mm, f2.2, 1/150, ISO200

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Canon 400D, 50mm, f1.4, 1/250, ISO200

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Canon 400D, 50mm, f1.4, 1/125, ISO200

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Canon 400D, 50mm, f2, 1/250, ISO200

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Canon 400D, 50mm, f2.8, 1/400, ISO200

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There are a couple more on Flickr.

Afterwards, we headed to the Market Bar and had way too many of these:

Canon 400D, 50mm, f1.4, 1/30, ISO200

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Mmm…. patatas bravas…