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Browsing Posts published in November, 2005

rain rain rain

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go away and bring back the cold!!

I’m off to a showcase seminar for Apple’s new photo managment & editing suite, Aperture. Really looking forward to going along to this, as it looks like a very cool application, and should be a good morning out! Places still available too if you want to register

I haven’t posted about the recent death of George Best on here. I understand and appreciate the sense of loss that so many people are feeling right now, he truly was a legend and a wholly engaging character. Plenty has, and will continue to be written about the genius that was for many years to [...]

Brrr

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1:41am, current weather conditions here, Light Snow Shower and Windy, 0 degrees C, Feels Like -7 degrees C Methinks it’s time to climb into a nice warm bed!

Well, it has all the right ingredients, Photography, Blogging, and New York, New York City Photobloggers contains a collective of New York Photobloggers, and, having spent the past while browsing through it, makes a worthy entry into my blogroll for regular reading.

CHILD: Mummy, mummy, do they put up Christmas decorations in Vietnam? MOTHER: Nope, but, I think they might be hanging glitter this year!

I see that Rick is trying to encourage us Irish to do what we have done so well before and hijack a BBC poll!! This time he wants us to vote Peter Crouch, the Liverpool Football Club striker, who has not scored a single goal (amazing for a striker really!) this season, as BBC Sports [...]

Latest update back from Canon is that my EF-S 17-85 which I sent away with the camera is winging it’s way back to Ireland as we speak, however, there is still no ETA on the actual camera itself making its way back yet!! Now, that’s a nice, useful way about doing things!

A few people have been asking me about the prints from Photobox that I ordered last week. I received the prints on Monday, and I have to say, I’m quite impressed with what they sent. Only gripe really would be that the paper they printed on is slightly thin (thinner than normal photo prints), but, [...]

10 Years On

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10 years ago today, the Dayton Peace Accord was signed in order to put an end to the Bosnian War. During the past summer, I visited Mostar in Bosnia, and driving in from Croatia, it was quite shocking to see that the country is still suffering hugely from the ravages of war. I’ve included just [...]