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The River, The Brewery and the Cathedral

The River Lee rushes by the Beamish and Crawford Brewery on one side, and O’Sullivan Electrical on the other with St. Finbarre’s Cathedral in the background.

I have discovered there’s a dead pixel on my camera’s sensor. Fortunately it doesn’t seem to show itself much but when I take long exposure shots like the one above a little red dot appears in the top-right of the image. It’s easy to get rid of with the clone tool but also annoying.

The Wacom graphics tablet is great fun to play with but I haven’t got it working fully in Linux yet. Ubuntu thinks it’s simply another mouse device and GIMP doesn’t see it as an “extended device”. I spent quite some time on the Ubuntu forums trying to fix it yesterday before giving up and trying it out on a few images.
It’s a little fiddly to begin with, but I think that’s par-for-the-course when using a new tool. I do find that when dodging and burning large sections of images the brush can get stuck and won’t follow the cursor but I’ve read that once it’s properly configured performance is improved so I hope that is fixed then.

Hope you had a nice Christmas Day!

December 26th, 2006 in Architecture, Beamish, Canon 20D, Cathedral, Cork, Cork Photos, Gimp, Ireland, Irish photos, irishblogs, Landscape, Long Exposure, Night, Photos, River, River Lee, Sigma 10-20, Urban | 4 comments

Christmas Street Lights

The Christmas lights in Mallow, Co. Cork illuminate the streets with a lovely cheerful glow.

A passing car provides another source of light in this long exposure shot on the main street of the town.

December 20th, 2006 in Canon 20D, Christmas, Christmas-Lights, Cork, Cork Photos, Ireland, Irish photos, irishblogs, Lights, Long Exposure, Mallow, Night, Photos, Sigma 10-20, Street, Urban | No comments

Chistmas Tree Lights

St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Mallow is lit up by the lights of the Christmas tree in the church grounds.

The camera club social night was in Mallow last night and after a great meal myself and Jacinta left the rest to prop up the bar! I had my camera with me and I got some good shots of the town and the church above.

It gave me the idea of writing an article about night shooting, so expect that in a day or two!

December 19th, 2006 in Architecture, Canon 20D, Christmas, Cork, Cork Photos, in-photos, Ireland, Irish photos, Lights, Long Exposure, Mallow, Night, Photos, Sigma 10-20, Trees, Urban | 3 comments

Clontarf Bridge at night

Clontarf Bridge in Cork City joins Lapps Quay to Albert Quay where the City Hall is situated. The construction cranes in the background are those at the site of the Elysian pictured previously.

This picture was taken on Monday night when several members of Mallow Camera Club walked the streets of the city taking photos of the streets and the people out on a cold December night. I didn’t have a tripod with me but there is enough street furniture to suit most circumstances and if not, then a wallet stuffed under the lens makes a shot from the ground more interesting!

Google Maps has a relatively good shot of the bridge if you’re interested!
I didn’t know the name of the bridge but this page came to my rescue. Thanks Blue Dolphin!

December 17th, 2006 in Architecture, bridge, Canon 20D, Clontarf Bridge, Cork, Cork Photos, in-photos, Ireland, Irish photos, irishblogs, Long Exposure, Night, Photos, Sigma 10-20, Street, Urban | 1 comment

Bike Lane

Riding a bike anywhere on today’s streets is almost a suicidal pursuit but bike lanes help. Here a bus drove past as I took this shot in an urban tunnel in downtown San Francisco.

December 5th, 2006 in bicycle, bike, Black and White, California, Canon 20D, irishblogs, Long Exposure, Photos, San Francisco, San Francisco Photos, Sigma 10-20, Street, United States, Urban, Vehicles | 10 comments

Pier 38, San Francisco

Pier 38 is where True Ventures have their San Francisco office. It was the location of a great post-WordCamp party last August. It was such a beautiful night I had to take a shot of the moon and lights reflecting in the water.

November 13th, 2006 in California, irishblogs, Lights, Long Exposure, moon, Night, Photos, Pier-38, Reflections, San Francisco, San Francisco Photos, Sea, Sigma 10-20, Sky, True-Ventures, United States, Water, wordcamp | No comments

The Golden Bay Bridge in San Francisco

The Bay Bridge in San Francisco all lit up at night. The lighting on the bridge casts a golden glow over the water that is beautiful to watch and photograph. More on Wikipedia.

Niall Kennedy walked with myself and Bryan Veloso around the Ferry Building on the night before WordCamp and we got some great shots.
You can see the pier to the right of this image here in more detail with a super reflection.

October 24th, 2006 in Architecture, California, in-photos, Landscape, Lights, Long Exposure, Night, Photos, Reflections, San Francisco, San Francisco Photos, Sea, Sigma 10-20, Sky, United States, Urban, Water | 17 comments

Waiting for Passengers

People wait expectantly in San Francisco International Airport for the first sight of someone they know to appear in the crowd off a plane.

Toni, Andy and I were there to meet Podz off his plane. I had flown in earlier in the day and was almost asleep on my feet but I managed to make this hand held long exposure shot!

I like this: Daft Punk at Marley Park because I wanted to go, heard that they were brill in Scotland, but Donal didn’t think much of their gig in Dublin. Nice shots of their light show though!

September 9th, 2006 in Candid, in-photos, Long Exposure, People, Photos, San Francisco, San Francisco Photos, Sigma 10-20, United States | 2 comments

Honest 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.