Photo is a little warped because I used the GIMP perspective tool to change the viewpoint from street level to that about 10 feet in the air!
This morning as I made my breakfast Ray D’Arcy on Today FM announced that they were looking for photographers for their “Odd One Out” quiz. I rushed for the phone and as I was about to dial, looked out the window and saw this little bird feeding.
Should I ring, or should I take a picture? I decided on the latter, rushed upstairs for my camera and 75-300 zoom and snapped off 40 shots through the kitchen window!
Sorry Ray! Jacinta and I have been watching this little bird for the past few weeks and I was dyign to get a good shot of him! Besides the local crows, he’s the only bird who’s figured out that there are peanuts in the feeder. Hopefully the robins will notice the source of food as the weather gets colder.
The area is undergoing major rejuvenation. A pedestrian bridge was built across the river at the end of the street, Vibes and Scribes are moving to a new location on the quay, there’s a new building going up next door to this large warehouse which itself will probably be gone soon.
Post 531 of this discussion forum sheds some light on what’s happening down there:
Does anybody else think that OCP’s retail plans for Cornmarket Street, Paul Street, Half moon street and Lavitts Quay, Academy Street, Patrick Street and Emmet Place are spreading out of control?
What about existing boundaries, laneways and city blocks? OCP seem to be buying up anything at all that they can tenuously link to Paul Street.
Just a thought, don’t bite my head off
That forum looks like a good way of keeping up with what architects are doing in Cork.
From what I can gather by searching for “Guy and Company”, they must have been a printer? Books are listed with their name presumably as publisher, and as recently as 1996 they designed a new seal for Cork County Council.
Here’s a 7 part tutorial on touching up a portrait. Must read later.
Looks like I’m not the only one who shies away from the confrontation of street photography. It is hard to do!
Matt presents a guide to photography that everyone should read. It explains in gentle lessons how to get the most from your camera and improve your photography! Brilliant!
Some, such as Donncha … would appreciate some advice to help make their pictures just that little bit more professional and less amateurish at the same time.
FlickrUploadr is a Flickr upload tool written in Python and Gtk.
It runs on Linux and probably any platform that are supported by Python and Gtk which is most of the popular ones!
I haven’t tried it yet but have to admit I don’t mind the email uploader. Attach a load of photos and click Send. Simple.
(Thanks Donal!)
23 is a new photo sharing site like flickr.com. It doesn’t have the fancy Flash interface that flickr Organize has but the free account allows you to upload 1024MB 15MB (The help page is out of date!) per month, and you can have as many albums as you want!
I uploaded a few photos already and it works well!
