McAWilliams Photoblog

Its been a while since I put up any pictures of my little trouble maker, Rebecca. Well at 22 months, her personality is really shining through, she is a cheeky little madam, in a funny way not irritating way, active, and always happy. She is also really starting to talk now, which is great gas all together.

Anyhow since the weather was so good today the swing came out of the shed and got dusted down, not until after she spent 2 hours in the sand pit. She did look a ticket in her Dora Shades and hat though.

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Feck him anyhow I was chatting to him through the new facebook chat thingy we were both virgins to it but it was highly enjoyable, and he goes and memes me. Cheers for that.

Basically I have to describe myself in 6 words.

1. Tall, very feckin tall 6 foot 4 inches to be exact.
2. Geeky, I love technology and dabbling in how I can break it why do you think I changed the layout, because of you guys, nah, but because I got bored of the look and wanted to do some coding again.
3. Selfish, or so my good wife keeps telling me (she is right you know).
4. Grumpy, well in work anyhow I am not one to be crossed.
5. Tired, it comes with old age.
6. Pessimistic, I generally try to find faults with everything and look for the bad things, probably because I am so grumpy and geeky.

So there you go Grandad, now I have to nominate some folk to do the same.

So I pick my new best twitter buddy Alexia, Fustar, Ryan at glassyalley, and lastly the girl that introduced the word Meme to me Caitriona.

Technorati Tags 6 things, bastard, grandad, meme

Well I was just flicking through the channels on tv and watched the end of Crimecall on RTE, the Irish equivalent of Crime Watch UK. What followed had me in stitches laughing.

As you are aware I plan on talking about things that interest me in life, because of my job, advertising is one such thing. Crimecall ended with a report about women been mugged in Ranelagh and what a great response the reconstruction had recieved but what immediately followed this program after the credits had rolled, was an advert for one of the most anticipated games this year Grand Theft Auto IV. This game is all about the sorts of things the previous program was trying to solve, I just found it hilarious

Congrats to the media buyers in getting such a clever placing of the advert, and yes I am in line on the 28th/29th to purchase this game its looks amazing.

Thanks to Damien for the fluffy link also.

Technorati Tags advert, crimecall, grand theft auto IV, media buying

This is the last in my pictures from work, the others really would not interest you trust me, part and parcel of my job involves putting music on adverts, we get supplied what is called “Production Music” which is music specifically composed for adverts, programmes etc etc. Years ago this sort of music was awful but nowadays the production that goes into the music is a hell of a lot better. 

The only problem is the amount of music out there it needs a hell of a lot of storage as you can see from the racks we have holding all the cd’s.

Technorati Tags cds, production music, racks, storage

Today I found out about a new competition that Canon are running it is called The Assignment, and prizes range from canon goodies to trips to euro 2008 and 4 prizes for the winners which will involve been able to go on a photo assignment along with a professional photographer.

The Assignment entries will be judged both by us the canon users and a panel lead by award-winning photographer Vicki Couchman.

I am sure a good few of the folk that read this (as in fellow photobloggers) will jump at this opportunity to enter, there are 4 categories that you can enter portrait, macro, landscapes, and sports, and I know we all have oodles of those sorts of shots between us, although thats not to say that it is bound only to photobloggers if you have an image you love enter it, even if you don’t have any images there are some valuable photographic tutorials on the site too.

So what are you waiting for, register now at Canons pretty swishy site and good luck.

UPDATE - You can only enter one picture so choose your category and image carefully.
UPDATE 2 - Donncha has also pointed out that in the t+c’s part 4 talk about the fact that you lose the rights to that image which may well affect some photographers opinions on entering.

Technorati Tags canon, competition, the assignment, tutorials

So no posts over the weekend what the hell happened there, well the website took me out on the piss to celebrate its 3rd birthday on Saturday, and yesterday was spent recovering, only kidding but to be honest do any other bloggers find their traffic goes to nothing over the weekends, in the past I have found that some really good images miss out because they may have been posted on a Saturday or Sunday, is there any point posting these 2 days, let me know. 

Anyhow this image is another one taken in work for my companies website, but I don’t know if it will make the cut, anyhow I own the rights, it was my camera and my eye etc. something very portholey about it but it caught my attention, hope you feel the same

Technorati Tags 3rd birthday, porthole, round window, weekend traffic

Well after all the excitement of getting the new template up and running I almost forgot to put a photo up and what better when you need to relax then to have a cup of coffee.

Many thanks for all the comments on the new layout I am so happy to get such positive comments and also an even bigger thanks to the people who have commented for the first time here, its so nice to learn more about the people visiting.

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