While getting ready for a blogger photo trip to the Dublin Zoo in the morning I found some photos on my camera I’d forgotten about. Thought I’d upload one now of some flowers last week in my neighborhood.
Salvage
Hurricane Igor is pounding Newfoundland today. According to reports electricity is out all over the island and many roads are washed out isolating small communities such as Salvage. Days like this must make living in old wooden houses on the edge of lakes and bays a frightening experience.
Update: Wow, ok, it appears at least one of my monitors needs to be calibrated, the picture on my work monitor (which isnt the best anyway) looks very blue and has no punch. Time to get out the spyder calibration tool.
Newfoundland Nets
It has been a busy few weeks since I got back from Newfoundland but I’ve finally managed to go through the last of the photos from the vacation and especially the ones from Trinity. I love that little town, have to go back there again next year. This photo of some fishing nets left on the dock of an old abandoned shipyard. Trinity proper is almost a little too perfect, all nicely preserved for the tourism market so it was nice to find this shipyard and take some photos there.
Great Weekend
Peoples Photography is over for another year and it was a great weekend. I met lots of wonderful people who chatted to me about my photos and some people even liked my photos enough to buy some prints. I will upload low-res versions of the photos later this week for those who couldn’t make it to Dublin over the weekend.
A big thank you to everyone that I met over the weekend and especially thanks to those who helped me before and after the event. I’m already looking forward to and planning things for Peoples Photography 2011.
Peoples Photography 2010, almost there
I’m almost ready for Peoples Photography 2010. Good thing too considering it’s this weekend. The last batch of prints arrived back from the printers today and over the weekend I settled on the technique I will use to hang the photos. I decided to go with a hopefully quicker approach, pre-hanging the mounted photos on black “webbing”. Then I can fold up the display the night before and each morning just unfold it, hang it on the railings and secure the bottom tightly. I’ve seen similar work well for other exhibitors on other years so fingers crossed it works for me.
Tonight the mounting process starts and while time consuming is at least achievable with effort. Then I will select the final 20 to display and the backups to keep in the box in case I get bored of what I have on display. Ok, so maybe I’m not as ready as I could have been if I’d started earlier but I’ll get there before Saturday, fingers crossed.
St Johns Sunset
One evening during my vacation I took a hike along the trail around Signal Hill and The Battery in St Johns. The view is amazing and well worth the effort. The city can be seen through The Narrows with Cabot Tower sitting on top of the hill.