De-construction on Grand Parade The construction site that is the Grand Parade right now but it will soon look like Patrick’s Street with broad pavements, paving and those flag bearing poles that are so prominent on our main thoroughfare. No Fred photos today, I haven’t had time to work on any. Expect more next week!
2006Fri23Jun
De-construction on Grand Parade
Filed in Architecture, Black and White, Candid, Cork, Grand Parade, Ireland, Landscape, People, Photos, Sigma 10-20, Sky, Street, Urban
2006Thu22Jun
Fred The Band in the Spiegeltent
Filed in Black and White, Cork, Events, Ireland, People, Photos, Sigma 18-200Jamin, Joseph and Jamie Joseph and Justin go mad! Justin on Drums Fred played in the Spiegeltent on Tuesday night and as usual put on a great show! Their show is energetic and wild and brilliant! More photos tomorrow! Edit: Donal has great photos of the night. Go look!
Jakub ‘jimmac’ Steiner has published several demos of the GIMP in action. Subjects such as defining shortcuts, image templates, transformations and paths and more are covered. Use the mirrors, because I haven’t downloaded the videos myself yet!
2006Wed21Jun
Brendan O’Carroll enjoying his break
Filed in Black and White, Cork, Ireland, People, Photos, Sigma 18-200, UrbanBrendan O’Carroll enjoying his break Irish comedian Brendan O’Carroll, also known as Mrs. Brown, enjoys his break during yesterday evening’s performance of Good Mourning Mrs Brown. We were on our way to see Fred play in the Spiegeltent which is situated in front of the Opera House when we noticed a group of people outside [...]
A new Noise Ninja release candidate is out now for Linux, Mac and Windows! I tried the Linux version, and despite having a strange file selector it worked really well! You can try it for yourself, but the unregistered version saves images with a watermark. I’m going to test it on a few more images [...]
2006Tue20Jun
Sunset at Drake’s Pool
Filed in Cork, Crosshaven, Ireland, Nature, Night, Photos, River, Sigma 10-20, Sky, TreesSunset at Drake’s Pool We took Oscar and ourselves for a walk in Drake’s Pool last Sunday. We arranged to meet Donal and Celine there. While the girls enjoyed a leisurely walk, us guys trailed after them making photos of everything! Drake’s Pool is just outside Crosshaven, and is named for Sir Francis Drake.
2006Mon19Jun
Luigi Malones
Filed in Abstract, Candid, Cork, Ireland, Long Exposure, People, Photos, Sigma 10-20Luigi Malones A long exposure shot in Luigi Malones Restaurant in Cork catches some of the hectic activity during lunch hour.
2006Sun18Jun
The Commodore Hotel
Filed in Architecture, Black and White, Cobh, Cork, Ireland, Photos, Sigma 10-20, Sky, UrbanThe Commodore Hotel The Commodore Hotel in Cobh, built in 1854, is an attractive hotel sitting on the main road of the town. Inside, the old world decoration of the lobby, restaurant and bar are inviting.
Making the top ten of Interestingness The Swan Gang, a photo I posted three days ago, became the 4th most interesting photo on Flickr two days ago. How? Nuggets of Gold Flickr Interestingness uses a secret algorithm to decide what is interesting, but is biased against users who consistently get a lot of attention. Up [...]
2006Sat17Jun
Please Recycle
Filed in Beach, Black and White, Church Bay, Cork, Ireland, Nature, Photos, Rocks, Sigma 10-20, SkyPlease Recycle Empty beer can on the rocky beach at Church Bay, Co. Cork.
