Dublin, Ireland | 2026

In a daring 11th hour pre-travel plot twist, just before I left for the airport I decided to open up my backpack, pull out the hand-check-ready bag of unboxed, de-canistered Tri-X 400 film rolls, and replace the mechanical Leica MP with the digital M10 Monochrom, armed with the Elmarit 28mm f/2.8 lens. The Ricoh GRiv Monochrome had been packed as a backup/pocket camera, so this trip became an all-digital black & white 28mm affair. (And yes, Leica spells “monochrom” without the “e” because branding.)

Dublin is a good place to make photos in the streets. It's rich with pubs, tourists and university students and locals occupying the same spaces, buskers, art, and roaming packs of uniformed school lads...at least one of whom in every group has a black eye. Sláinte...