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in Photo of the Week Project52 — February 1, 2012 at 12:45 pm | 0 comments   This weeks Project 52 photo was quite easy, as it just happened that I had the camera & tripod with me (fairly common these days) and that I was near the bridge in Waterford as the sun was coming up. The sun was nestling behind the clouds which gave a nice ray / beam of light over the city. I ended up with a few different versions of this photo. The one below is the photo which I think represented the actual view... Read Full Story

in Night Photography Project52 — January 28, 2012 at 10:34 pm | 0 comments   This week I decided to take advantage of the recent crescent moon in our skies since Monday. Using the 75-300 Canon lens, tripod & cable release I got a few good photos of the waxing crescent moon (at about 19%) and did some work with it from there. The photo above was taken in Carrick On Suir, Co. Tipperary, a 56 second exposure converted to black and white (actually monochrome with a little tint). I then... Read Full Story

in Photo of the Week Project52 — January 19, 2012 at 8:55 pm | 0 comments   A few days ago I took a photo at Hook Head which I liked. I hadn’t planned on using it for this weeks Project 52 photo, but having gone out tonight to take some night shots, I found that the clear skies had clouded over !! The weather for photography at the moment is dire (neither one thing or the other) … and its not great for the next few days, so this photo taken at Hook Head is as good as I am going to get... Read Full Story

in Photo of the Week Project52 — January 15, 2012 at 11:56 am | 0 comments   Second week of my Project52 was a bit more difficult with the weather not cooperating. Dull overcast days are tricky to shoot as the colours are not as vibrant as when the sun is peeking through the clouds. The photo below was taken about 20 minutes after sunrise last Tuesday morning, as the sun rose over the River Nore and broke through the clouds. The clouds were nice and I decided to take 5 different... Read Full Story

The concept of Project365 is a way of documenting your life or your photography by taking a photo every day for a year. With the new 5 and 8 MegaPixels camera phones this project365  concept is becoming more popular and images are shared on social networks such as Facebook. I tried Project365 in 2010 and didn’t get far, due to not having the focus  or time, to post a unique photo every day. This year I decided to post a Photo per week in Project52 . That way I can maintain some quality... Read Full Story

in Photo of the Week Project52 — January 3, 2012 at 8:40 pm | 0 comments   The first entry on my 2012 Project 52 is a shot which was taken this weekend in Ardmore, Co. Waterford from the Cliff Walk. Set off at the Cliff House Hotel and the journey takes about 60-90 minutes depending on your pace, and you end up back at the round tower in Ardmore. This shot was taken mid-morning, luckily the sun was behind clouds so I was able to recover the detail from the sky. Its a great walk and... Read Full Story

in General Posts — December 31, 2011 at 11:59 pm | 0 comments   With 2011 drawing to a close I have being trying to set aside some time to review some shots which I have being meaning to edit & improve in post-production etc. That plan didn’t work out but I’m going to try and take some time in Jan 2012 to do this. I also plan on starting the Project52 – which is one quality photo per week uploaded to the blog (the Project365 seems like overkill and I tried it once before and failed to... Read Full Story

Happy New Year to all the visitors to this website and thank you to the 931,000 people who visited this site over the past year. Wishing you a very Happy 2012 ! Read Full Story

Looking back at the year that was on my website, 2011 was the year Google Panda visited my site, Twitter and Facebook had an impact on search and website traffic, and an overall increase of 21% on traffic from 2010. 2011 looks like hitting 690,000 unique visitors and 1.8 Million Page Views. 20 The Most Popular Pages on the site 1.  Piano Chord Shapes : 198,647  pageviews 2. 420 Chords – ChordMap : 152,515 pageviews 3. Guitar Chords :  51,751 pageviews 4. Learn To Read Music : 50,402... Read Full Story