Taken from the same photo as yesterday’s shot.

Taken from the same photo as yesterday’s shot.

Shock! Horror! Tickets sold out within 3 hours for the 3rd U2 concert on June 27th.
I got mine, did you?
A small crop from a much larger photo, taken from the multi-storey car park on the Grand Parade, Cork.

We’ve all gone out and taken pictures of the pretty flowers.. I’m as guilty as the next guy!

Today I took delivery of a new Canon 75-300 IS USM lens. It’s a nice zoom lens, although seemingly slated by everyone who has used more expensive lenses. That seems to be par for the course – the lenses I can afford aren’t up to much apparently.
On the way home I took a few photos of horses in a nearby field. Here’s one I liked..
Here’s a 100% crop fron the photo below. The shot out of the camera is a little soft but hover over the photo to see what effect a simple unsharp mask does for the sharpness of the image.


The story accompanying this photo is creepy! Photo is great too! I don’t think I’d have gone back there if I’d known it was haunted!
About.com discuss Image Theft and ways of detering users from stealing from your site.
The simplest way IMO is not publishing hi-res versions of your photos!
Interesting technique here for sharpening images. The GIMP has a high pass filter too so I’ll give this a go later!
Ten ways to live longer – and live better too!