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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…
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Digital Journalist May 2006
Better late than never, the May issue of the Digital Journalist online magazine is out. I haven’t had a chance to read it yet, but after a brief glance, the quality looks as good as ever!
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Travel photography, what to bring
On our honeymoon in Lanzarote all I had was my Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ5, 2 1GB SD cards, a spare battery and charger. Little did I know that I would wish for a wide angle lens when we visited Cuevo De Los Verde (along with an English gentleman who missed his tripod too) but I still…
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Interviews with Pulitzer Prize winners
Mark Hancock has published a series of interviews with Pulitzer Prize winning photographers. I haven’t got around to reading the whole lot but I’ll have a bit to read at lunchtime later!
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Going Professional
I consider myself very lucky to be passionate about two subjects – software development and photography. For many years the former paid the bills and allowed me to dabble in influencial projects while the latter came into it’s own in the last few years as a serious hobby. That’s good because working on WordPress pays…
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Wet Cobbles
Wet Cobbles Wet cobblestones leading into the harbour at Cobh. Aperture ƒ/10 Camera Canon EOS 20D Focal length 18mm ISO 200 Shutter speed 1/250s