About

In Photos is run by me, Donncha Ó Caoimh, a software developer with Automattic Inc. and one of the guys behind weblog site WordPress.com and the multi-user version of WordPress WordPress mu. I live with my family in the scenic town of Blarney, Co. Cork, Ireland.

I post a new photograph every day quite often on this site. They are usually street shots around Cork City, Ireland, but there’s a wealth of photos from around the country and elsewhere too. I have in the past used The GIMP, using GThumb as an image viewer on Linux, but I since tried Aftershot Pro (before Corel abandoned it) and now I use Lightroom extensively.

This blog won the “best photoblog” section of the Irish Blog Awards in 2006.

Featured In

• I had 8 photos included in the Ray D’Arcy Us Book, a photo book celebrating a day in the life of Ireland on October 1st, 2005. All proceeds went to charity and all 30,000 copies sold out within weeks of publication.
• One of my photos was displayed in Times Square, New York.
• Road Narrows is being used by Hugging the Shoulder, a theatre company performing at the New York International Fringe Festival in August 2006.
• Street Talking was used for an educational book in Argentina.
• One of my images from the US Book launch party (this one of Ray D’Arcy) was used by the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (ISPCC) in their annual report. Thanks Celine for my copy of it!
• On November 6th 2006, an article on blogging in Ireland in the Irish Times featured one of my photos.
• Case Western Reserve University used the Thieving Duck to illustrate one of their articles on January 12th, 2007.

Equipment Used

I’ve used the following cameras in the past:

• Canon 20D
• Canon 40D
• Panasonic FZ5
• Canon 6D
• Sony A7iii
• Galaxy S4
• Galaxy S7
• Galaxy S9*
• Galaxy S21 Ultra (but the main camera has a faulty focus. grr.)
• Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro
• Galaxy S23 Ultra

My other equipment includes:

• Canon 75-300 IS USM lens
• Canon 18-50 kit lens
• Sigma 18-200 lens
• Sigma 10-20 lens
• Canon 50mm f1.8
• Canon Speedlite 580EX flash unit.
• Canon 10-22 USM lens
• Canon 24-105mm lens
• Canon 17-40mm lens
• Tamron 28-300mm lens
• Sony 24-240mm lens
• Sony 16-35mm lens
• Samyang 24mm AF lens

and various other bits and pieces of photo kit.

Statistics

Year	Images
2000	199 (8.4MB)
2001	155 (17MB)
2002	2701 (1.5GB)
2003	6665 (9.3GB)
2004	12100 (15GB)
2005	23636 (81GB)
2006	23316 (71GB)
2007	11858 (70GB)
2008	15028 (116GB)
2009	9472 (105GB)
2010	7888 (98GB)
2011	6111 (63GB)
2012	7321 (81GB)
2013	10768 (171GB)
2014	10906 (211GB)
2015	14603 (268GB)
2016	22998 (405GB) (plus 10067 camera phone photos)
2017	17789 (339GB) (plus 8128 camera phone photos)
2018	21453 (411GB) (plus 7249 camera phone photos)
2019	19544 (401GB) (plus 5783 camera phone photos)
2020	10024 (228GB) (plus 4512 camera phone photos)
2021	14032 (330GB) (plus 9310 camera phone photos)
2022	40900 (922GB) (plus 13277 camera phone photos)
2023	28916 (728GB) (plus 18530 camera phone photos)
2024

Other

I was also part of the team behind the now dead blogs.linux.ie which was the first site to use WordPress mu and I also write occasionally on my other blog, Something Odd!

Copyright And Prints

A very few images here were taken by others, but most images on this site are copyright Donncha Ó Caoimh. Please contact me about usage. I used to make my photos available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence, but that’s too permissive when I have candid photos on my site.

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