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Reflection on the Spire
Reflection on the Spire O’Connell Street in Dublin is reflected in the polished surface of the Spire. A young teenager leans on the edifice in the shade away from the glaring sun. This was inspired by a shot I saw one another photoblog, can’t remember which one now. Does anyone know the image I’m talking…
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Cobh Peoples Regatta – Flash Harry
Flash Harry, a Queen tribute band played to the crowd at the Cobh Peoples Regatta last weekend after the fireworks. They were great, driving the crowd wild! *phew* This post took ages to do, had to get up early to work on this one. Hope you enjoy the photos! You can find out more about…
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Cobh Peoples Regatta Fireworks
I went down to Cobh to see the end of the Cobh Peoples Regatta on Sunday night. I met Donal and Celine down there and a great night was had by all! The Regatta is a weekend long festival which I found out about last year, watched the fireworks and the band that played. This…
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Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet
Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet A Boeing 747 is readied for another flight, with hand luggage on board. This is the plane that flew me to London Heathrow from San Francisco. I shot the photo through the plate glass of the departures lounge. It was converted to b/w and dodged/burned afterwards. The panoramic format works really…
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Who’s for supper?
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? Aperture ƒ/4 Camera Canon EOS 20D Focal length 10mm ISO 200 Shutter speed 1/160s
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Still stuck in P Mode?
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…
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Google Picasa for Linux
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!
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Cross in the sky
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! Aperture ƒ/14 Camera Canon EOS 20D Focal length 10mm ISO 200 Shutter speed 1/250s
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Shooting panoramas el cheapo
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…
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Six Apart Mark
Six 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…
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Honest Smoothies
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. Aperture ƒ/4 Camera Canon EOS 20D Focal length 10mm ISO 200 Shutter speed 1/6s
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Hungry 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! Update on 2015-08-11 – I re-edited this photo in Lightroom and uploaded a larger version! You can find the original photo here! Aperture ƒ/4 Camera DMC-FZ5 Focal length 6.4mm…