10
Mar
Horse outside
An old photo of mine but with a change of Government I thought it’s good time to repost it. Hopefully the cracks in our economy will be fixed. Although I don’t have much faith in Enda Kenny, the man who hid from radio interviews in the last few days before the election. Will the public be wishing Fine Gael out and Finna Fáil back in four years time?
A collage of baby Conor, now 11 months young. He was just after waking up so is still in his sleeping bag and has ‘morning hair’. He sat and looked around for a bit but then crawled over to try to eat my camera (center bottom picture). He’s at the age where EVERYTHING that he gets his little mitts on goes into his mouth.
Post title is the song title ‘Stay Young’ by Suede.
Pummelvision is a cool website that’ll flash your life before your eyes using photos from around the web.
this is my video with all my Flickr photos-
Here’s a list of my latest photography related tweets (links open in new window). You can follow my (mainly) photography tweets on Twitter.
Stunning Time-Lapse of the Night Sky with Dancing Antennas
10 Awesome iPhone Apps for Photographers
70 Photos That Will Take Your Breath Away
So you want to be a wedding photographer (funny)
99 Remarkable Photographer’s Portfolios
Behind the Scenes with Sports Illustrated Photographers at the Super Bowl
$40,000 Awarded to Man Who Had Photos Deleted by Police
Jaw-Dropping Urban Photography
That’s all for now folks,
Pa.
Hi,
Just to let anyone who is interested that there’s an upcoming photowalk in Limerick City on Saturday, March 12th. It’ll be a citywalk through the streets and along the riverbanks of Limerick, passing by many landmarks of interest and will also include the very popular Milk Market. Anyone and everyone is welcome.
Full details and registration can be found on Photowalk.ie.
It’s the first photowalk I’ve organised. I’ve been itching for a good day out with the camera and haven’t been to Limerick yet to take pictures so I’m looking forward to it.
Photowalking; what’s that most people ask? A group of people meet up and walk along a route while taking photographs. Simple idea. I’ve only been on two but think they’re a great idea; an excuse for a day out with the camera, visiting a new location, chatting with and learning from other ‘like minded’ people and seeing photos from other peoples perspective.
See ye all there,
Pa.
It’s game over man, it’s game over
Situated on the banks of the River Corrib in Galway city, Galway Cathedral is the most recently built of Europe’s great stone cathedrals. I didn’t have a tripod so had to balance my camera on the roof of my car.
There's a massive flock doing 'their' dance very evening at the exact time. Fairly amazing to watch (but I have to shelter from their 'bombardments')
There’s some construction going on across the road from where I work in Galway. The diggers are relentless. These are very early morning shots, I tired something different with the skinny tall shot, kind of like it.
The staff of a Barcelona restaurant having a quick smoke break. I passed the side street and doubled back to ask them could I take a photo of them. I could have sat there for 10 minutes composing and taking many pictures but I haven’t approached people much asking to take their portraits. And the guy second from right was either pretending to appear pensive or wasn’t very comfortable (working illegally per chance?)
So it’s a new year, which means new resolutions. So here are my resolutions, or photographic plans for the year….
1. Finish the upgrade from my photoblog to (this)proper website. It’s virtually completed now, I just need to complete the gallery and a some final fine-tuning.
2. Spend as long as it takes to go through everything in my camera manual and know/learn all the features and functions my camera has (and unleash them).
3. Finally get onto a few cafes/venues and get some photos exhibited.
4. Go along to the Galway Photo Club and see what it’s like.
5. Aquire (buy) a wide prime lens.
6. Frame some more pictures and hang them at home.
That’s it for the moment I think.
Some pictures of birds during the snow. The first two are very similar, I just wanted to show what a bit of editing does. I cropped tighter for the second one so the picture is filled more which I think looks better. I could have come up with a lot of titles, such as ‘I’m still not talking to you’, ‘you talking to me’, ‘bird(s) on a wire’, etc. The last one is just an evil looking crow.
(Click on photo to view full size.)
I think collages are very simple to make but look impressive. You don’t need to have any great photos but they give a great overview of a story or the atmosphere of an event.
I think I might use this for any Christmas cards we (by we I mean my wife) send out this year.
At work one of our current competition categories is ‘Abstract’.
These photos are two I took at home tonight, one a Rothko copy and one trying to convey a human soul.
The sunset through my back door reminds me of the Russian-born American abstract painter Rothko.
Human soul- This one was just messing around but I kind of like it. It’s my breath, taken standing outside my back door in the (very) cold. The photo on it’s own it very forgetful but when you associate it to a human soul escaping a dead body then breathes (no pun intended) a whole new life into the photo.
I should have removed the The Police cd. It’s not mine. Honestly. No, really, it isn\’t
It's the first time Emma (3 and 1/2) has seen snow. She was delighted
to build her first snowman
We normally don’t get much snow in Ireland, in fact we normally get no snow in Ireland. The winter of 2010 was different, we got so much snow that roads and schools were closed.
This was the first snowfall in Ireland of 2010. It began up north on Friday, 26th of November and covered most of the country by Saturday.
People often say one of the downsides to living in Irlenad is the weather- a fair bit of rain and not much sun or summer heat. While that’s true we also don’t have people dying in heatwaves or snowstorms like other countries. And Bill Bryson, the humorous travel author said if Ireland had good weather the place would be too crowded with tourists.
Taken from the amazing rooftop of Casa Mila, Barcelona. Gaudi’s La Sagrada Familia is on the left and Torre Agbar skyscraper on the righton the right.
Roooftop vents on Casa Mila, one of Gaudi\’s designed buildings in Barcelona, Spain.
A beautiful orange/golden sunset near Claregalway in Galway. The foreground has flooded fields an electricity pylons and poles. Much of east Galway was flooded in the winger of 2010 and the sunset reflects of the water.
Harrods. Probably one of most famous shop in the world? To me Harrods is anyway. Maybe Macys and Hamleys are up there with it but Harrods has the element of style, Harrods oozes class and the wow factor.
When I was a child I used to visit my cousins in London and always looked forward to a trip to Harrods, watching with awe the magician and playing amongst the many, many toys.
In this Harrods photo I photoshopped out some cars and bits n pieces to try to make it look like Harrods from the past. I added the second photo to show what the original photo compared to the photoshopped version.
The Good old days in the post title ‘Harrods (The Good old days)’ is a song from the album ‘Up the Bracket’ by The Libertines.
Another rich mans toy from my wander around Kensington, London, this time a racing red Ferrari
Barclays Cycle Hire is a public bicycle sharing scheme in London, United Kingdom. At launch there were 5,000 bicycles and 315 docking stations available in central London. I think it\’s a great idea and results in a lot more people cycling. 4 wheels bad, 2 wheels good.
An iconic English landmark. I tried to take the photo from a different angle than the standard photo and feel that this stands out
Yet another luxury car in Knightsbridge. I could spend a month in London just wandering
around taking pictures of everything and everything. It's a photographers' dream place and has
life everywhere.
Another luxury car in Knightsbridge.The place is probably a thieves’ dream
I love my car
I’ll admit today I’ve gone too far
To enamour myself of my little motor car
I was in London for a wedding in Knightsbridge.
The place is dripping with money, a lot of extremelly
expensive toy boy cars.
I didn’t want to take the standard photo of Harrods (front of building) and am happy with this instead.
I took this photo taken from the eighteenth floor of The Jumeirah Carlton Tower, London. The London Eye glows like a ball, which stands out I think. The exposure was 10 seconds and I used the windowsill as my tripod.
Originally this was a macro photo of an apple. But the result wasn’t very sharp. So I messed about with the photo and this is the result
A bee working away in my back garden. I zoomed into 250mm to try not to disturbe the bee (or get stung). It was hard to get a shot with a good position but here you can literally see him collecting the nectar. The bee collects nectar, while pollen collects on its body
Messing around in my back garden with nifty fifty lens and some of my daughter's toys
A Jaguar hood ornament from a classic Jaguar car, taken at Lackagh Heritage in Galway.
I tried to step away from the standard (plain) car shot and shot from a different angle.
There were a number of classic cars on show (and one shiny red Massy Ferguson tractor too)
An abstract photo of a classic Jaguar car at Lackagh Heritage Festival, Galway.
* I have to explain that the picture title is the title from a song by The Smiths and no bad intentions on the kids.
I can’t look at the rocket launch
The trophy wives of the astronauts
And i won’t listen to their words
’cause i like Birds
But my little boat is empty
It don’t go
And my oar is broken
It don’t row, row, row
But my little boat is empty
It don’t go
And my oar is broken
It don’t row, row, row
