Saturday, June 30, 2007
Shirlee Sunflower
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Fashion Victim
Dublin 5 - the country's ills
I hesitated slightly about posting this. It is definitely in the D-day camp , ie documentary. Bear in mind that this is about the second hour into walking around Dublin for the first time; here turning out of Moore St into Henry St and, two doors down, this girl, who I shot as she saw me. We subsequently talked but this remained my favourite. The film director John Borman (Point Blank, Deliverance and Emerald Forest) has lived in Ireland for the last 30 years and has been sufficently troubled by the developments of the past decade or so to make a film called The Tiger's Tail (reviews say that it is ambitious but flawed) within which the huge disparities in income that have arisen are explored as the basis for a society with a dystopian future. I heard him talking after we got back from Dublin, which put this picture more in focus. This I haven't seen in UK, and bear in mind that it was raining!
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Tangled (03780016)
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Incoming and Outgoing
Colin's battling siskins reminded me of a day I spent last summer trying to get one of our resident Red-bellied Woodpeckers in flight as they shuttled back and forth feeding their young. This was the image that I thought at the time was most successful -- mainly because the incoming bird on the tree is sharp and not obstructed by the one coming out. (This image didn't get a very good reception by the nature photography forum crowd -- those few who commented wanted the outgoing bird to be sharp, as I recall.)
Revisiting the images I kept from that day, I now wonder if this one is lacking more because the outgoing bird is not blurry enough. The following frame (.02 seconds later) had him fully out of the hole and has much more feeling of the amazing speed and of flight -- but nothing at all in the image is sharply in focus. Yet if I look at it as documenting the "event", it could be considered more successful than this one. (maybe why I kept it!)
Not sure just where I'm headed with this, but hope you don't mind if I keep the discussion going a bit longer!
Monday, June 25, 2007
Not all wildlife moves fast
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Home
Thursday, June 21, 2007
scrap
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Level Crossing
Monday, June 18, 2007
Boys having a bit of a barney
Saturday, June 16, 2007
Paper
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Dublin 4 - forget Parnell
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Untitled (03760031)
Stan's Smile
Monday, June 11, 2007
Floral Fire Hydrant
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Chaffinch
Shears
Thursday, June 07, 2007
Dublin 3 - DART
The DART is a train link connecting the city centre with the suburbs. Rush hour.
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
Hong Kong Bay
Hong Kong Bay
OK, the Internet connection in the new apartment is now up and running, back in business! The moving is not completely finished, but enough is done to be operational from the new home. I have a lot of catch up to do on the commenting side, but here is a picture first :-)
This is not what is generally called Hong Kong Bay. I have the obligatory picture of that one, but I find this one more interesting. It is taken from the Governor Walk path around Victoria peak. One sees that when on the other side of the hill from Hong Kong. This was twilight already, the sky is probably due to being in the Summer monsoon a day after a night of *heavy* rain. The black spots are birds, not dust.
