Post no bills

Post no bills on the wooden boards surrounding the building site on Cornmarket Street. The red brick wall is the front of the old Guy and Company building. It looks like the builders are going to incorporate that into their new building which is great – mixing old with new.

See map for location.

I followed Mike’s advice in his comment and bought a Wacom Graphire4 off Pixmania. Mynn’s post about his Volito2 Graphics Tablet sealed the deal, especially when he said that the “A6 working area is MORE THAN ENOUGH”. Hopefully it’ll be delivered early next week. I’ll ask Jacinta to open the box and verify that it’s in one piece but I’m not going to touch it before Christmas Day!

Aperture ƒ/4
Camera Canon EOS 20D
Focal length 10mm
ISO 200
Shutter speed 1/60s

Bike Lane

Riding a bike anywhere on today’s streets is almost a suicidal pursuit but bike lanes help. Here a bus drove past as I took this shot in an urban tunnel in downtown San Francisco.

Aperture ƒ/22
Camera Canon EOS 20D
Focal length 10mm
ISO 400
Shutter speed 1/1.3s

Ready to go!

You better be good at hill starts if you live in San Francisco! I presume it’s slightly easier with an automatic transmission rather than manual?

Highly processed image via multiple tools in the GIMP until I came up with an effect I liked – multiple layers, b/w, gaussian blur, layer modes and more.
I had to rotate the image at first and reconstruct parts of the image, but I think it came out reasonably well!

Aperture ƒ/8
Camera Canon EOS 20D
Focal length 10mm
ISO 100
Shutter speed 1/250s

Parking for the Guinness

Look up for unusual perspectives on ordinary scenes. I was quite happy with this image of a lamppost in Parnell Place, Cork when I took it. The signs are clearly visible and the upside-down Guinness logo catches the eye!

You have to wonder, what’s more important, Guinness or parking?

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

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.


Apertureƒ/1.8
CameraCanon EOS 20D
Focal length50mm
ISO400
Shutter speed1/80s

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 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 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 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 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 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 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