McAWilliams Photoblog

Oh dear what a bad bad blogger I have been, but this whole economic mayhem has been entertaining me like I don’t know what, also in all honesty last week I had my fathers 60th and my mothers birthday too, a tweetup with some fantastic people, more on that in a post or 2 and general madness.

As I said my father hit the great age of 60 last week and to celebrate we went to Carlow over the weekend and myself my 2 brothers and my future brother in law Tom brought him for a game of golf. I have not played for at least 10 years so to put it mildly I was terrible.

Thankfully I did bring the camera and this was one of my last shots from the day of a dead tree found at the 18th tee box, I am thrilled at how this turned out and it made up for my crap golfing.

I have gone for a very soft looking photograph today, I dunno why, I suppose its the weekend and I feel great.

I am also pleased to announce that I have decided to take my copyrighting a bit more seriously now on mcawilliams.com, and as of tonight all images, past and future, will be watermarked. I have taken this step due to the fact that I have always said if someone wants an image, once its not for commercial use ie. a personal blog etc, you are more then welcome to it once you let me know and also dont do the silly thing of hotlinking to my images.

Well this has fallen on many a deaf ear and so things have to change, watermarking is step number one, behind the scenes myself and my hosts are going to work on the images that have been hotlinked already.

Thursday Twitter question time did happen, but I wont be posting it up until tomorrow, mainly due to the fact that tonight I celebrate my last day been married for 4 years, yep tomorrow I celebrate 5 years been married to Paula.

What an amazing 5 years we have had as a married couple, so much has happened in particular the addition to our family of my other favorite girl Rebecca.

So I found this photo of my 2 favorite women in my life and want to say thanks to Paula for putting up with me for so long and making me such a happy dude.

I obviously did not take this photo, it was taken by one of my brothers, which I dont know, but I had to put it up, as the majority of self portrait shots I have taken have had a beard included.

Anyhow here is I shaven!

So time for a picture I think, last week my little baby sister got engaged to her long time boyfriend Tom, I am so thrilled for them both! Over the weekend they had a party in their house in Portlaoise to celebrate it.

I decided to take pictures throughout the night to create my first blurb photo book for them as a present, I think I have that almost perfected, but I just had to get one shot of my sister up on the blog in the meantime.

So fair play Tom welcome to the clan etc and thanks to both of you for a great great night.