McAWilliams Photoblog

Look at me I am posting up a new picture, I aint gonna apologise for not having an image up for ages but the past 2 weeks have been very very hectic for me. All will be revealed at the Irish Blog Awards on Saturday. Last year I mentioned to Damien that if he ever needed a hand with the awards, give me a shout, thankfully he did and my work is now complete, hopefully it took some of the pressure of him although I don’t think he is the type to relax.

So the camera will now make its appearance out of the camera bag again and posting should resume to some sort of normality very soon.

In other news, I would like to thank who ever the judges for the photoblog category are, McAWilliams has made the finalist list in the photoblog category, I would also like to thank the sponsors of the category too, and wish the 10 other photoblogs the best of luck.

The list contains some of the old hand photoblogs out there and some new ones too, but there are also some blogs which did not make it, like Catriona.net (been in the finals every year up to now) and headphoneland (last years winner) and many others, which have come as a suprise.

Anyhow roll on Saturday night, I cant wait to see some familiar faces and I am also looking forward to seeing some new ones too.

Technorati Tags Camden Market, finalists, irish blog awards

Oh its great although this image does not show it, the evenings are getting longer and I even get a bus in the morning at 7.30 and its bright (although very bloody cold at the moment).

I get home normally between 6.30 and 7pm and the sun generally has just set with an amazing red glow over the wicklow mountains. In a few days I reckon, if the sun keeps shining, I should be able to get a shot of that but for the meantime here is a shot of the moon, giving off loads of light tonight, and the very unnatural light of a street light.

Technorati Tags Moon, photography, streetlight

I love these sorts of trails that planes leave behind, it was great that I had my zoom lens on for this shot you can just about make out the plane at the very front of this trail.

Where were they going I wonder?

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Its amazing really did we ever really see winter, I still have geraniums growing outside and get this they are still flowering aswell. But it is great to see daffodils and crocus’s all starting to shoot up.

Winter is officially over.

On another topic altogether McAWilliams has got through the first round of judging for the Blog Awards, along with 21 others, so in relation to a shortlist it did not happen, so a second round of judging will trim it down to 10 or 11.

So I would love to say I am shortlisted but dont feel I can just yet, congrats to the other 20 that got on the list some old hats at this game now and some great new ones too.

Technorati Tags crocus, daffodills, irish blog awards, shortlists, winter

How nice it was to be out and about with no rain falling on my head the other day. I decided to venture down to Merrion Square to see if there were any new flowers starting to shoot up, even though spring aint arrived really yet. I did stop though to take a shot of these 2 benches destroyed by graffiti. As I have said in the past some graffiti is very artistic this on the other hand is plain old vandalism.

I desaturated the shot quite a bit and gave it a good bit of contrast hopefully to give the impression of the stark reality of vandalism.

Technorati Tags benches, Graffiti, merrion square, seats, vandalism

What a weird picture huh, yep its a badge I will wear with pride forever more, given to me by the Irish Blogging Guru that is Damien Mulley. Damien Has a fluffly Link section on his blog linking to sites he feels deserve a link for something they may have written etc, McAWilliams got a fluffy link a while ago thus enabling me to ask Damien for a badge, I dont know how many were made but I know he aint got none left and they went quick maybe 25 possibly 50 so I feel for the first time in 2008 quite lucky.

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