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The cat’s in the cradle

Michelle looks out from her home at the dreary wet day ahead and the annoying photographer in the doorway. A few seconds later she scampered off under the bushes but was back when I disappeared.

Cats love their comfort and Michelle is no exception. She’s spoilt rotten like most house cats and never has a worry in the world!

This is one of my first shots with my shiny new Canon 50mm f1.8 lens. It was delivered while I was at the conference on Wednesday and I’m very impressed already. It’s horribly sharp and fast. The shallow depth of field offered by an aperture of f1.8 is beautiful and falls off from the sharp in-focus bits really nicely.

Aperture	ƒ/1.8
Camera	Canon EOS 20D
Focal length	50mm
ISO	400
Shutter speed	1/80s

Salim Ismail

Salim Ismail

Salim Ismail speaking at the 2006 it@cork National Technology & Business Conference.

Thanks for the name check Salim 🙂

Aperture	ƒ/5.6
Camera	Canon EOS 20D
Focal length	240mm
ISO	200
Shutter speed	1/60s

Eamonn Fallon

Eamonn Fallon

Eamonn Fallon of Irish property site Daft.ie speaking at the 2006 it@cork National Technology & Business Conference.

Aperture	ƒ/5.6
Camera	Canon EOS 20D
Focal length	300mm
ISO	200
Shutter speed	1/60s

Tony Kenny

Tony Kenny

Tony Kenny speaking at the 2006 it@cork National Technology & Business Conference. He’s the IT manager at Beaumont Hospital. His experiences with introducing Open Source software such as Linux and Star Office into the hospital make for a very interesting talk.

Aperture	ƒ/5.6
Camera	Canon EOS 20D
Focal length	300mm
ISO	200
Shutter speed	1/60s

Marc Canter

Marc Canter

Marc Canter speaking at the 2006 it@cork National Technology & Business Conference.

Aperture	ƒ/5.6
Camera	Canon EOS 20D
Focal length	300mm
ISO	200
Shutter speed	1/160s

Matthias Kill

Matthias Kill

Matthias Kill speaking at the 2006 it@cork National Technology & Business Conference.

Aperture	ƒ/5.6
Camera	Canon EOS 20D
Focal length	300mm
ISO	400
Shutter speed	1/160s

Jeff Nolan

Jeff Nolan

Jeff Nolan speaking at the 2006 it@cork National Technology & Business Conference.

Aperture	ƒ/5.6
Camera	Canon EOS 20D
Focal length	300mm
ISO	200
Shutter speed	1/60s

Jacques-Etienne Grandjean

Jacques-Etienne Grandjean

Jacques-Etienne Grandjean speaking at the 2006 it@cork National Technology & Business Conference.

Tom Raftery blogged about his talk and while he’s right that no search competitors of Microsoft were mentioned, he did say that search isn’t very sticky. I’m sure he’s hoping that people will abandon Google and jump on board MS Live.

Aperture	ƒ/5.6
Camera	Canon EOS 20D
Focal length	300mm
ISO	200
Shutter speed	1/60s

Eddie Hobbs, Conor Kenny and Hugh MacLeod

Eddie Hobbs, Conor Kenny and Hugh MacLeod speaking at the 2006 it@cork National Technology & Business Conference.

Tom Raftery covers Eddie Hobbs’ talk on property, energy and investment.

Aperture	ƒ/4.5
Camera	Canon EOS 20D
Focal length	75mm
ISO	200
Shutter speed	1/60s

Yellow Boxes

Yellow Boxes

Yellow boxes on the junction of Bridge Street and Patrick’s Bridge in Cork. It’s illegal to enter a yellow box if you can’t exit as has happened with a few cars here.

This image was entered in the Patterns Around Us competition along with my Autumn Leaf but this was my favourite one because of the strong colours and unusual contrasting effect.

How I did this: take an ordinary photo and clean it up, fixing levels and all the usual things. Duplicate layer, then play around with the top layer and the curves tool, creating a curve with two waves. You’ll see unusual rainbow hues and the colours will be distorted in other ways too. Now, change the mode of the layer. Each mode will make the image look different, but I settled on “Grain Merge” for the final effect here.

PS. the Blogger’s Dinner last night was most excellent. Luigi’s staff did an outstanding job at creating a tasty meal!

Aperture	ƒ/4
Camera	Canon EOS 20D
Focal length	10mm
ISO	200
Shutter speed	1/400s

An Autumn Leaf

An Autumn Leaf

I love the colours of nature at this time of year. The browns and yellows of falling vegetation make for a soft rich carpet of leaves that is pleasing to the eye. Unless of course it’s your job to clean them up, or after it rains!

This photo came third in the Mallow Camera Club Patterns Around Us competition, novice digital section. I took notes about the other winners but I don’t know how accurate they are. Congrats to David Lavery for all his winning images!

Aperture	ƒ/6.3
Camera	Canon EOS 20D
Focal length	10mm
ISO	200
Shutter speed	1/80s

Looming over the building site

Looming over the building site

A tall crane looms over the building site of The Elysian, a new high-rise building that will house offices, apartments, a shopping center and underground parking. The main tower of the new building will be 17 storeys high, taller than anything else in the city.

Over a year ago I took a photo of the building site as it was then for the US Book. As you can see, they’ve dug the foundations and started on the main tower.

This picture was taken from the top of a 4 storey car park which gives you some idea of how tall that crane is!

Aperture	ƒ/10
Camera	Canon EOS 20D
Focal length	10mm
ISO	200
Shutter speed	1/250s