Fitzgerald and Donaldson

Interesting portrait of Garrett



Geoffery in full flow

After this week's developments up North, I thought I'd post a couple of pictures from a recent paper delivered to UCD's Law Society by Geoffery Donaldson. One of the respondents was Garrett Fitzgerald.

We the people

Finally got round to editing this one... from the summer! Hoping it'll bring me luck in my WIP interview on Wednesday ;)

s.

Federal Proecutors?

Pesky civil servants getting you down?
Think that poor black people don't deserve a vote?
Never fear! There is a solution. You can just have your attorney general fire your prosecutors.

That's what George Bush in effect did when he asked A.G. Gonzalez to ''clamp down on voter fraud''. One might wonder at this whether there is a widescale problem with voter fraud in the US. If they have to fire lots of people, there must be a lot of people casting votes who shouldn't be right? Not quite; on closer examination you begin to realise that 'voter fraud' is another neat label with which to mask what is actually going on.

Fraud in this case means clamping down on poor people voting. It means blocking voter registration drives to the point that the league of women voters had to suspend their registration efforts in Florida. It means trying to introduce harsh voter identification laws in stats like Arizona in an effort to stop people who would not vote for the Republicans from voting. Quite why a driving liscence was considered to be a pre-requisite for casting a vote is still unclear.

That Bush does not want his top aids to testify at the Senate Judiciary Committee about this matter is indicative of somebody who has been caught once more in the act. The anti-democratic, and quite possibly illegal action is shameful, and should have the full scrutiny of the other branch of government brought to bear upon it.

Malaysia night, UCD

Colourful Clothing


Funky sword dance


Traditional dancing


Dragon for Chinese new year


A few from the recent Malaysia night, held in Astra Hall.

Pretentious editing for the hell of it...

Gregg, levels and charcoal effect.



Connie with diffuse glow, slightly boosted red channel.



Tiernan, gaussian blur in background, lowered colour, levels tweak and some pastelle type effect thing.


A few from the Galway IV, I was bored (read: not doing the work I should have been doing), so decided to play around in photoshop!

Ha'penny bridge

Ha'penny bridge at night


Ha'penny bridge at night


Ha'penny bridge at night

Was in town to see Julius Caesar in the Abbey the other night. Got there a bit early so decided to head down and try and take a picture of Ha'penny bridge that had been in my head for a while. It's probably slightly cliched at this stage, but I still think it's kinda fun!

smedias '07

Anto Kelly jumos in the lake


NCAD protests at the possibility if being moved to Bellfield


Brennan during Fresher's week

Here are the 3 pictures that I have decided to enter for 'News Photographer of the Year'. Thanks to everyone who helped me pick them! I'm thinking about reviving this blog again, so keep an eye out for more posts in the near future!

S.

one more...

Brighton Veil Sunset

Among the best pictures I've ever taken, 2 nights ago at Brighton veil with the West Pier to my back. Can't ask for much more!

Another Cork one...

The flowers were all in bloom and everything was rather lovely after the storm cleared on Saturday!

One from Cork

One from last weekened in Cork.

Firstly to apologise for the lack of posts lately, I've been very busy! I've got a few pics from the last while that I'll post over the next few days for anyone who has been missing some regular updates! In some good news I was made photo editor for the Observer during the week, so there will be plenty more picture coming along the way in September. I'm pretty excited about it, should be good fun!

Anyway, this first one is just a portrait that I like, did some basic editing by desaturating and blurring the backround, but the actual person is pretty much untouched.

One From Dun Laoghaire

The Sentinel












End of East pier, 2 second exposure




What a miserable day. Anyway I went out for a walk this evening becauase I was fed up being stuck indoors with the rain all day. Here are a couple that I took along the way.

Kung Fu

Staff fighting form

One of my brother from earlier on in the day. Took about 2 hours to properly seperate him from the backround so that there were no white lines left behind.

I've been editing some more of the pictures from the UCD ball, I never got around to finishing them at the time because the exams were approaching rather too quickly for my liking. I'm very gratefull that I was shooting RAW (a more flexible format for editing later) because the camera had a lot of difficulty setting the exposure correctly with the harsh and very quickly changing lighting. Here are a few of the ones that I liked more on the second visit.

A tougher edit

I left over some of the Yosemite photos to process at home, this is one of the ones that I wasn't sure about at the time, but having processed it now, am quite fond of. A lot of the difficulty in taking good photographs is the limitations imposed on you by the dynamic range of the camera: you don't want to blow highlights out, but you also want to retain the detail in the shadows. It's for that reason that a lot of landscape photography is taken either early in the morning, or late in the evening. Beacuse it's not as bright you're more likely to get all the detail that you want in a photograph. It also gives you a certain glow, as the sun casts different colours and longer shadows as it goes through the lower portion of the atmosphere.

An Irish summer...

The young


The old


A couple of pictures from the Dun Laoghaire/ Seapoint area yesterday. I'll let the pictures do the talking on this one!

Still life

I was never very good at drawing in school. And my art teacher could hardly be said to have enoucoraged me along the way. I think that's part of the reason that I love photography, it allows people who can't pait to capture things none the less. With photoshop you have a whole plethora of tools available to you which allow you to get an image to look the way you imagined it. For photojournalism those options are naturally limited, you want to represent things in as natural a way as you can, given the limitations of the medium. However for other compositions you're free to do what you want to a picture to get it to look how you want, and this is one example of that from me recently. Not entirely sure about the effect, but it's intersting so I thought I'd post it none the less!

Fauna

Home again!/ Flora

Arrived back safely! Here is the last full series of Yosemite pictures that I intended to post here. Yosemite teems with wildlife everywhere you look, so even someone very poor at capturing animals/ plants like me has a good chance! Hopefully I'll see everyone soon, a much less selective bunch of pictures will be going up on Bebo soon too.