After arriving in Galway shortly after 1pm on Saturday I wandered around the touristy spots of the city for an hour until joined by Niall, Daniel and Kevin in the local shopping centre where the World Press Photography Exhibition was displayed as I previously mentioned.
The exhibition was great! Photos(which you can see online too) were stunning and thought provoking, especially images of war-torn parts of the world. The photos were mounted on panels and set in the public walk ways between shops. Each panel had a short description and background information and while we were there large crowds huddled around all of them. I didn’t know there’d be nature and sports images on display but my favourite of the nature shots has to be this stunning photo of Chicago from Lake Michigan. The web version doesn’t do it justice as the image on display was so big!
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Happy Birthday Kevin!
It’s not for a few days yet but happy birthday Kevin! We all had a great day and it was great to meet old friends again!
Control Midtone Contrast
Or how to increase contrast without blowing out all the detail! Good tutorial but the effect created may be too subtle for many. I like it!
Run To The Light!
It doesn’t seem like a year has passed, but the 4th of July is almost upon us again! A year ago I went down to Lake Michigan with my flatmates to watch the brightly lit spectacle overhead! Mark has lots of tips on photographing fireworks on his blog, so if you’re in the USA, have a great time this weekend!
Mark's Coverage of Tech.Ed
Mark Twomey provides excellent coverage of the goings on at Tech.Ed in Amsterdam!
Militant European Linux users nearly started a fistfight with members of the Windows 2003 Server team when a FUD war went wrong. (The Microsoft definition of Open Source being somewhat different than the Linux community’s definition of Open Source.) The OS propagandists usually never come to blows as they all know that their arguments are only so much crap, but there were some very steamed up techies scurrying around the halls after a heated discussion or two today.
Microsoft’s Services for Unix guy was fun, asking assembled crowds how many of them were Linux/Unix developers who felt like fish out of water, laughing when most of the hands went up and saying that this was the safest place for them to be right now, or at least it was until the roaming packs of guys in the MSDN T-Shirts were sluggish after lunch and couldn’t chase them all that fast.
World Press Photo Contest – Galway
The World Press Photo Contest this year is being exhibited in Galway until July 18th. I’ll be there at the weekend so it’d be impossible for me not to take a look around on Saturday morning!
See you there!
More On Bush Interview!
More on the Bush interview from boingboing! I also read in the Irish Times that a member of the Irish Government defended the interview by Carole Coleman. I’ll have a look for a link later..
Much Later.. Rymus has more, including a letter to the Examiner from a US citizen.
Does the digital camera change how people act in front of and behind the lens?
This article explores this question but I find myself disagreeing with some of the conclusions reached. Sure, it makes taking photos easier, and camera phones have changed society in numerous ways but most people still prefer to look at photos printed on nice quality paper and perform the social interaction that passing around photos enables. Maybe when we all have broadband and photo hosting and website building gets easier…
(via photography blog)
Hmm, ‘nother interesting article on Near Infrared Digital Photography: A Tutorial. Cool.
PHP Scalability and Performance
Much more interesting than the previous one is this roundup of various blog posts and articles on PHP performance issues including a link to John’s post today. A must read for all the tips contained within!
The connection between gay marriage and terrorism
The connection between gay marriage and terrorism explains a lot, it really does, swear it! Some of the following comments are worth reading however and do make some sense.