Category Archives: Photography

These boats lay quietly in the shallows, away from the maddening crowds at the weekend.

At the beach, a nice picnic, beautiful sunshine and great company. What more could a guy ask for?

It’ll be worth it in the end, but Cork City is a city under construction right now. The drainage works came first, then a re-design of the City Centre streets. Oliver Plunkett St. (where this photo was taken) is showing promise already, as long as they don’t tarmac over the nice brickwork laid into the street surface. That’s almost bound to happen like it did in Paul St.

I had never heard of him but the news is popping up all over the place. Here’s the photo.net post about it.
Andy Williams posted some great photos, “to mark the passing of a truly great photographer, and someone whom i so greatly admire”, and linked to a lot of threads on b&w conversion and an interesting tri-x tutorial.
Quarlo.com has some great photos up, again! Love the saturated look of his photos!
Mark describes him as, “One of the best-known photographers in the world” so just goes to show what I know.

I notice things. I can’t help it, but I do. Quite often I’ll miss the obvious but give me the obscure any day!
On the way to and from work last week I noticed a portaloo in the middle of a field! Everyday I meant to stop and take a few snaps of it, but I didn’t get around to it until Friday evening when it was being removed by this guy and his lorry!
No I have no idea why it was there!

Last week flying ants came out in their millions and disrupted Irish life for a few days while they danced their mating dances! I was outside the office and spotted this lot coming out of their nest. It’s fitting that last weekend was the warmest this year! The average temperature was around 25deg C. Dry, dead heat!

That’s what weekends will do to you: you miss stuff! Here’s a few things I’ll be reading tonight.

• Developing Photos That “Pop” – unfortunately it uses Adobe Camera Raw II but there’s probably something useful in there even for GIMP users!
• USES AND APPLICATIONS OF 35mm LENSES – good humorous looks at lenses!
• Over the gamut and through the woods – an in-depth, detailed look at colour.
• Finishing a Full Game – applies to any project I suppose!
• Digital memories survive extremes – the memory cards might survive but our digital archives probably won’t. 🙁

The Willfull from a week ago!

The Willfull from a week ago!

Hey Joey! My relation’s beautiful dog!