I’m just back again from this years trip to Newfoundland in Canada. I didnt get to spend as much time taking photos as I usually do since we were busy trying to organise our wedding next year but I was lucky to get out with my camera for on the two best days of the trip. A weekend spent in Trinity itself was great fun and the town is a beautiful location in the early morning. In St Johns itself I went for a hike around Signal Hill and the view is amazing though the light was hazy and the time of day meant the sun was in most of the best shots, it’s another location that needs an early morning start so I’ll try to visit it again next year. I still have to go through the images but hopefully I’ll have a couple of nice ones to post here.
Mrs Fahey and Son Tom
This photo is from Marlfield church and graveyard outside Clonmel. It’s my old family graveyard but has become very overgrown lately with only a few families maintaining their plots while the older parts of the graveyard are reclaimed by nature. Thats a shame since lots of effort went into cleaning up and restoring the place 20 years ago.
This cross jumps out because someone is making small efforts to maintain the area around it, yet there is very little information about the people whose grave this marks. All it lists is Mrs Fahey & Son Tom. There is no date visible, no ages, not even a first name for Mrs Fahey. The fact that the text is still so clear and the wooden cross has not decayed indicates it’s relatively recent compared to the rest of the graveyard.
iPhone 3GS camera
I was recently lucky enough to win an iPhone 3GS. Just in time to replace my old 3G which was dying under the demands of the new iOS 4 I had foolishly upgraded to. One of the things I did not like about the 3G was the camera but the 3GS has a much improved 3 megapixels, auto focus and a touch focus screen.
One day last week while walking to the Luas tram home I spotted this flower head dropped in the tram lines and it seemed like the most interesting thing around to try and photograph with the iPhone. I didn’t put it on the computer. I downloaded some photo apps on the iPhone and just used those to tweak the picture. It’s still hard to judge the image on a small screen but I was pretty pleased with the result and how easy it all was. It’s not perfect but it’s a camera phone. The unfortunate thing is the camera in the 3GS is so much better than the 3G I now really want the iPhone 4 with its 5 megapixel camera 🙂
First Prints
I got my first set of prints for Peoples Photography 2010. God I’ve got lots of work to do. I think I selected the incorrect dimensions with the online printer which didnt help the cropping but leaving that aside only one image seemed acceptable straight away. Two or three others are close and the rest are probably beyond any hope of making it into the exhibition.
Fire
Last weekend I went to the annual Street Performance World Championship in Merrion Sq. A weekend of street performers from around the world competing for votes, and of course cash from the audience. One of the stages was in front of Government Buildings and I was there watching Dr Kaboom set off fireballs within sight of the Taoiseachs office. I bet when Cowen dreams of fireballs outside his office he doesn’t picture the Gardai standing by and applauding, at least not yet.
Peoples Photography 2010
Peoples Photography 2010 is on, 28th/29th of August. I should be taking part again. I’ve got lots of printing to do and as a result of all the business travel I’ve done this year I don’t have enough new photos. I think I’ll have to reuse some from last year to fill out the numbers. Still hopefully it will be a success and even if it’s just a nice weekend sitting in the sun and chatting to people that will make it worth while.