Who’s for supper? A mural on a wall in Dublin a few weeks ago. We passed this while walking back to our hotel. I get the feeling there’s a story behind this picture. Does anyone know it?
2006Sun13Aug
Who’s for supper?
Filed in Architecture, Dublin, Ireland, People, Photos, Sigma 10-20, Street, Urban
Kathy writes that many users are stuck using P mode, or the automatic mode of their favourite tools simply because they don’t know how, or don’t know why they’d like to use those extra features. I link to this usability article here because she used camera terminology to describe how a user approaches a complex [...]
Google finally released their photo organisation software, Picasa for Linux. It’s a free download, and uses Wine so it’s not a truely native port. I’m going to try it out now and will update this post later with my thoughts and impressions!
Cross in the sky I noticed this cross in the sky while walking around Dublin a few weeks ago. When I saw a church I had to make this shot and I’m quite happy with the way it came out!
If you’ve ever tried stitching photos together to create a panoramic photograph you’ll be more than aware of the awful distortion between one frame and the next. That’s one reason why it’s recommended that frames overlap by at least a third. There is so much distortion because the camera is rotated around using a normal [...]
2006Fri11Aug
Six Apart Mark
Filed in Automattic, Black and White, Funny, People, Photos, San Francisco, Sigma 10-20, Street, United States, UrbanSix Apart Mark Niall Kennedy drove myself and Mark Jaquith around on a small sight seeing tour of the local attractions in San Francisco after WordCamp last Saturday. A visit to the offices of Six Apart proved to be too good a thing to pass up so we posed for a few photos on their [...]
2006Thu10Aug
Honest Smoothies
Filed in Candid, Dublin, Ireland, Long Exposure, People, Photos, Sigma 10-20, Street, UrbanHonest Smoothies We bought smoothies in Honest, a small shop in Dublin. They were having problems with their machines and gave us one of the smoothies free but they didn’t taste all that great unfortunately.
2006Wed09Aug
Hungry Caterpillar
Filed in Blarney, Cork, Flowers, Ireland, Nature, Panasonic FZ5, PhotosHungry Caterpillar A caterpillar munches on flowers by the bird sanctuary in Blarney, Co. Cork a few weeks ago. No SF photos today, need to recharge my batteries!
2006Tue08Aug
Automattic at the Bridge
Filed in Architecture, Automattic, Nature, People, Photos, San Francisco, Sea, Sigma 10-20, Sky, Trees, United StatesAutomattic at the Bridge From left to right: Podz, Donncha, Andy Skelton. In the background is the famous Golden Gate Bridge leading to San Francisco. Thank you Diane for the directions to this amazing viewing point and thank you Toni for the lend of the car!
2006Mon07Aug
White Reflection
Filed in Architecture, Automattic, Night, Photos, Reflections, River, San Francisco, Sigma 10-20, United States, Urban, wordpress.comWhite Reflection Pure white light reflects off the waters of San Francisco Bay in this shot taken on Friday night. Thanks again Niall for that mini tour!
