Archive for March, 2007

Clearing out my feed reader

Saturday, March 31st, 2007 by Donncha

My feed addiction has got to stop! It’s a great way to keep up to date on my favourite blogs but when it gets to over 300 blogs then something has to be done. That means cutting back on my subscriptions. Unfortunately the first to go will be those photoblogs that don’t offer a full feed, or only show thumbnails. If I had time, I’d visit your blog every day but I don’t, and it’s impossible to judge the merits of a photo from a tiny thumbprint of an image.

Without further ado, here’s the list of blogs I have dropped from my feed reader. If you’ve come here because you saw traffic to your blog through a link in this post, please consider a full feed. I’d be back like a shot because I enjoyed your enough to subscribe in the first place!

Your feed readers are the most loyal of your readers and they should be treated accordingly. Give them something to get their teeth into instead of a small morsel and you’ll find that traffic to your blog increases, you’ll get more links to your posts and maybe even more comments by an appreciative audience.

Here are the related blogs that stay.

And a lot more but I got tired of copy/pasting everything.

Coming up on Monday: search engine tips for your . Don’t miss it!

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A view on an Alcatraz Street

Saturday, March 31st, 2007 by Donncha

Looking through a doorway onto one of the streets of in . congregate while listening to the electronic tour guide.

I think I should have all my of and posted before my next trip there in July.

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Get GIMPed Now!

Friday, March 30th, 2007 by Donncha

Joy of Tech makes a good point about the pricing of Adobe products. If you can’t afford to buy a copy of then give the GIMP a go. It’d free, it’s what I use to process all my and it has many of the features most need. (via)

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Silhouettes in the club

Friday, March 30th, 2007 by Donncha

Some of the audience who gathered to take part in the Stanley Super 800 of silhouetted against the bright around the band’s equipment.

I underexposed on purpose so the silhouettes of the in the image contrasted with the stage lighting. Shot during a break in performances when most were outside getting some air!

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Gatecrashing on Caroline Street

Thursday, March 29th, 2007 by Donncha

Another shot from Sunday at Stanley Super 800’s recording of the . The multi-shot posts are such a pain to do the rest of these will be single photo posts!

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Three Gatecrashing Guys

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007 by Donncha

Three members of the audience at Stanley Super 800’s recording of the , at Caroline St. on Sunday.

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Poster size prints only 9.99

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007 by Donncha

Turkish Trabordine only 19.99! Where’s that Muunkaay!

No, Daft Dave hasn’t invaded the blogosphere yet, but until the 31st of March .ie are offering poster size prints for only €9.99 which seems like quite a good deal. I’m ordering a few prints off them to see what the quality is like but I’ve ordered before and been happy with the results so hopefully they won’t disappoint.

Give tired rooms a stunning makeover by creating a feature wall with poster prints. Why not try using interesting crops to create a series of prints - as A3, 16″x12″, 18″x12″, 20″x16″ A2 and 30″x20″ size prints are just €9.99 each! Just enter offer code CREATEWALLARTIE at the checkout. The only limit is your creativity!

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Stanley Super 800 Gatecrashing Again

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007 by Donncha

Stanley Super 800 playing in the old Tramway power station in Caroline St. on Sunday.

More here!

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Stanley Super 800 Gatecrashing

Monday, March 26th, 2007 by Donncha

Where does the weekend go? Last weekend was "getting the baby stuff together" weekend, but it was also buy another UPS time too as Blarney was hit by another couple of power cuts. It was also Ken’s stag and I was simply too tired to go out on Saturday night so I missed all the fun in the Indian Palace and the pub afterwards. Sorry about that!
Sunday morning was more of the same - work some for the blog, build a chest of drawers. Who knew preparing for a baby would be so much work?

Anyway, come 4pm Sunday afternoon I was in the old power station on Caroline to watch band Stanley Super 800 record their new "". Over the next few days I’ll post a few from the 2 hour session.

Stanley Super 800 Gatecrashing
Stanley Super 800 Gatecrashing

The was filmed in front of an audience dancing and shouting and having a great time. Although they look relaxed in this shot don’t be fooled. They’re a bunch of mad folk who gave it their all and had a great time to boot!

Sorry for the poor quality of the photo. The room was full of artificial smoke and the autofocus was fooled by it. Liberal use of unsharp mask helped and I am so glad I brought my wide angle lens!

Truely they were the stars of the show!

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City people in a b/w world

Sunday, March 25th, 2007 by Donncha

Shopping, talking, walking and rushing. in the concrete jungle.

Selective colourisation using a layer mask to hide a b/w layer above the original colour layer. Shot from the same place I took this photo in front of The Body Shop in .

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