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11 SEO tips for your photoblog
Richard Hearne offered some great tips for making Irish photoblog mcawilliams.com more visible on the search engines and they’re very good general search engine optimization tips that can be applied to any website. He has grouped his tips into the following categories: Site Architecture On-Page Optimisation Off-site Optimisation Richard’s post is well worth reading, even…
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Animal Care Society Collection
Animal Care Society Collection Volunteers from the Animal Care Society were out in force on Saturday collecting to raise funds. We bumped into Beamish and his owner and I forgot to ask her name, but hopefully she’ll see this picture as I gave her one of my cards. Beamish was lovely and very placid, perfect…
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The most sent around duck photo
I would love to know who made an email attachment of my thieving duck and thank them. The Aflac Duck seems to be a well known part of American insurance marketing and people got a kick out of these ducks stealing money from a lady on the street! Apparently my thieving duck has become “the…
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Alcatraz Control Center
Alcatraz Control Center The Control Center in Alcatraz. This room is visible to all visitors to the prison and is beautifully preserved. I couldn’t find anything specific about this room but Alcatraz History has a very good site with lots of information about the prison on Alcatraz Island. Aperture ƒ/4 Camera Canon EOS 20D Focal…
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Clearing out my feed reader
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…
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A view on an Alcatraz Street
A view on an Alcatraz Street Looking through a doorway onto one of the streets of Alcatraz Prison in San Francisco. Tourists congregate while listening to the electronic tour guide. I think I should have all my photos of Alcatraz and San Francisco posted before my next trip there in July. Aperture ƒ/4 Camera Canon…
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Get GIMPed Now!
Joy of Tech makes a good point about the pricing of Adobe products. If you can’t afford to buy a copy of Photoshop then give the GIMP a go. It’d free, it’s what I use to process all my photos and it has many of the features most people need. (via)
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Silhouettes in the club
Silhouettes in the club Some of the audience who gathered to take part in the Stanley Super 800 video of Gatecrashing silhouetted against the bright lights around the band’s equipment. I underexposed on purpose so the silhouettes of the people in the image contrasted with the stage lighting. Shot during a break in performances when…
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Gatecrashing on Caroline Street
Gatecrashing on Caroline Street Another shot from Sunday at Stanley Super 800’s recording of the Gatecrashing video. The multi-shot posts are such a pain to do the rest of these will be single photo posts! Aperture ƒ/5 Camera Canon EOS 20D Focal length 18mm ISO 200 Shutter speed 1/60s
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Three Gatecrashing Guys
Three Gatecrashing Guys Three members of the audience at Stanley Super 800’s recording of the music video, Gatecrashing at Caroline St. Cork on Sunday. Aperture ƒ/5 Camera Canon EOS 20D Focal length 15mm ISO 100 Shutter speed 1/60s
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Poster size prints only 9.99
Turkish Trabordine only 19.99! Where’s that Muunkaay! No, Daft Dave hasn’t invaded the blogosphere yet, but until the 31st of March Photobox.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…
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Stanley Super 800 Gatecrashing Again
Stanley Super 800 Gatecrashing Again Stanley Super 800 playing in the old Tramway power station in Caroline St. Cork on Sunday. More photos here! Aperture ƒ/4 Camera Canon EOS 20D Focal length 10mm ISO 800 Shutter speed 1/30s