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Pictured at the Blarney Woollen Mills a week ago.

Links of the Day

• Retouching Magazine Cover - magazine photos have to feature pixel perfect beautiful men and women. This girlpower Flash presentation goes through all the little touch ups that go into improving a model’s eye, nose, cheeks, lips, breasts, waist and more until she is not the person who stood in the studio. (via)
• Digital Photography World has published some great articles recently including image management now that he’s gone completely digital.
• John Engler’s photography section of his blog has lots of good stuff, including 3 introductory articles: What’s an SLR Anyways?, Film Speed, Aperture. (via)
• I posted the last two US photos: Chatting and Shopping and Crowded Cork. The collection is complete!

Don’t go to bed reading a photographic book, you’ll get up again to “try out” the new techniques you read about.

A rose by any other colour

One of the Blarney Castle roses.
The original was very saturated and detail was lost in the bright red of the petals. Making a monochrome image made the detail stand out and drops became visible again.
A little dodge and burn to finish.

Smile Please!

Guy in a clown suit walking around town. Not everyone was amused!

Wet Day Shopping

Couple walking along Patricks Street Cork on Saturday.

Castle in Monochrome

Blarney Castle, taken moments before clouds completely covered the sky.

The Claw

A tree in Blarney Castle Gardens

Lights From the Middle

Standing in the middle of the road outside Blarney.

Blarney Castle Stairway

Climbing to the top of Blarney Castle requires a climb up steep stairs that get narrower and smaller as you reach the top. It’s not for the faint hearted or claustrophobic!

Matt and Donncha

Matt and I pictured in front of Blarney Woollen Mills!

Walking Patrick’s Bridge

Pictured walking along Patrick’s Bridge, Cork on Saturday evening. What really attracts me to this image, despite it’s obvious flaws, is the figure in the dead-centre. There’s light all around yet here’s a walking shadow.