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The Web 2.0 Conference Cork
The Web 2.0 Conference Cork Welcome Shel Israel Blog Hype Shel Israel Salim Ismail Joe Blogging Tom Raftery welcomes everyone to the Web 2.0 Conference in the Radisson SAS Hotel in Little Island yesterday. I’ll post a few more shots later tonight and update this post. From left to right: Shel, Walter, Rob, Fergus (behind…
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Web 2.0 pre-conference dinner
Web 2.0 pre-conference dinner Tom Raftery Salim Ismail and Tom Raftery Salim Ismail and Britt Blaser Shel Israel and his wife Britt and his wife Tamara A group of about 20 bloggers, techs, and generally smart and nice people gathered in Probys Bistro last night before the Web 2.0 Conference today. Pictured, in no particular…
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Using Photoshop actions in GIMP
GIMP#, a project to provide a “C# wrapper around the GIMP API” and that “enables users to quickly write new GIMP plug-ins using .NET or Mono” has had some exciting developments recently. Maurits is working on a GIMP# plugin that will hopefully allow GIMP to use Photoshop actions. AFAIK, these are basically files with calls…
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Bovine bodyguard
Bovine bodyguard Three cattle watch as we passed their field. “Is that a bull on the left?” says the city boy. Aperture ƒ/9 Camera Canon EOS 20D Focal length 72mm ISO 200 Shutter speed 1/200s
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06-06-06
06-06-06 Today is the 6th day of the 6th month of the 6th year or 06-06-06. People worry about the date’s similarity to 666, “the number of the beast”. Did you do or not do anything today because of the date? Here’s some more trivia about this once in a century day. Aperture ƒ/5 Camera…
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Mr. Ed
Mr. Ed Well, maybe he doesn’t talk, but this horse sure eats a lot! Aperture ƒ/8 Camera Canon EOS 20D Focal length 10mm ISO 200 Shutter speed 1/125s
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Image Retouching
More examples and proof that what you see in magazines isn’t reality. This image collection allows you to hover over the image to view the original image. I previously mentioned another retoucher, Glenn Feron who works wonders with what he does!
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Digital Journalist: Harper’s Essays
Peter Turnley’s photo essays in the June issue of Digial Journalist are a snapshot of life all over the planet. The contrast between soldiers and in the next frame, students couldn’t be more striking but the emotion of his “THE BEREAVED, Mourning the Dead, in America and Iraq” is the same no matter where you…
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Relaxing on Panna
Relaxing on Panna Young and old women relax on St. Patrick Street in the glorious sunshine about a month ago. Aperture ƒ/9 Camera Canon EOS 20D Focal length 18mm ISO 200 Shutter speed 1/200s
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Smoke Over Cork City
Smoke Over Cork City Smoke Over Cork City A long trail of smoke was visible over Cork City and surrounding countryside this evening as a fire raged in the scrap metal yard in Dublin Hill. Jacinta and I had been down in Monkstown at her sister’s house where we enjoyed a great bbq cooked by…
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Press the button
Press the button A doorbell on a building on the seafront in Cobh. I can’t remember which building exactly but it was down in the direction of the train station. It’s scorchio in Ireland now and it’s great! We adopted Oscar yesterday and the poor dog was upset last night until we brought him for…
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An Modh Scoil
An Modh Scoil This is the Small Claims Court in Cork. If you have a grievance about a product or service you can bring a case against the provider here for around 15 Euro. In a past life it was also a primary school. I went to school here in the early 80’s when it…