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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!

Hand-held photo of St. Finbarr’s Cathedral and the River Lee. The original was very dark and the colour was spoilt by the local street lights. Converting it to black and white and adjusting the contrast made for a nice photo IMO!

Pictured from near the Opera House, you can see Shandon, and the construction work building a new appartment block near the river.

Any Corkonians reading this will probably recognise the sign in the background. Before the by-pass was built most traffic going north-west from the City would have passed through Blackpool. I can’t remember this place ever being open! Does anyone know what they made and sold?

I thought this was going to be a slightly alarmist story about the heavy handed nature of the law when I read “riot act” but it turned out well enough in the end.
Almost on topic, I remember taking a photo of a dramatic painting in the Louvre years ago. I thought I had disabled the flash, but no, I hadn’t and bright white light poured into the room when I pressed the shutter button!
No sooner had I realised my mistake than an irate lady came pounding up to me gesticulating wildly and berating me, in French, for destroying a work of art! Unfortunately, my French was only slightly better than it is now (and that extends to about a dozen words!) but I didn’t need a gift with languages to realise what she was saying! *gulp*
I still have that photo at home somewhere..

Thoughtful and interesting essay on shooting landscapes. 2 great photos included.
I find that by cropping a shot later I can completely change what an image feels like. When you work with high resolution images you can crop aggressively if you’re only going to be displaying the images online!