McAWilliams Photoblog » Dublin

Guinness

McAWilliams — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 21:52:19 +0000

Well there goes 2010 a year for many reasons to forget but also a fantastic year in other regards. I hope everyone had a great christmas and a very happy new year.

Big changes are afoot at mcawilliams.com and posting will be pretty slack for the next while while I code up a new version of the site, I am doing this for a few different reasons to make posting for me easier believe me, using a plugin for my pictures through wordpress has proved to be more hassle then its worth, and also a rejuevenation of the site will encourage me to blog more often. I really want to see if there is a way of incorporating my twitter account with the comments section now on wordpress as that seems to be where the majority of comments now take place. I am sure there is a way it could be done but I think its going to be a messy thing to try to install somehow.

Anyhow I have so many photos that I Have not posted this being one of them from last year on a trip to the Guinness Storehouse.

Work

McAWilliams — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:57:40 +0000

Well I have been asked to take loads of photos where I work, for our new webpage which is being developed and I suppose it is nice to be able to show you all what I actually do. This is my recording studio at Reelgood Facilities where I create a lot of the adverts and tv programmes that you love or hate. What you can see in the center of the picture is my dcontrol mixing desk which is made by Digidesign and the Mac underneath runs an amazing bit of software found in almost every recording studio worldwide called protools.

So as you can see I am not a photographer, as so many believe, but a sound engineer who dabbles with photography.

Over the last few months a lot has been going on and one thing that has entered my head is to revamp this website. I am unsure weather to stick to it being a blog or not, and weather to keep the floating john/sofa thing around. I would love to hear from you guys as to what I should or could do to improve the site or should I leave well enough alone?

Hell Fire Horses

McAWilliams — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:42:23 +0000

Last weekend I was up at the Hellfire Club up in the Dublin mountains. On the walk up to the house at the top of Mount Pelier, I passed by these 2 horses grazing in a field with stunning views over the Dublin skyline, unfortunately due to the weather, mist and rain its hard to see the extent of it.

Saint Patricks Day

McAWilliams — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:00:23 +0000

Its gonna be a quiet day blog wise today, its Saint Patricks day!!!!

This is an image I took last year from the parade when pix.ie got a load of us photographers passes on the parade route!

So I hope where ever you are you have a great St Patricks day!

Tara Street Tracks

McAWilliams — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:05:13 +0000

A photograph taken looking Northside towards Connolly Street Train Station, taken from Tara Street.

Baggot Street White

McAWilliams — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:29:33 +0000

As I have said I love what the snow did to Dublin. Suddenly even Lower Baggot Street, the road where I work, was made look beautiful. Enough Said.

Snow Tracks

McAWilliams — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:53:30 +0000

Well I have a few more photos from the snow to go this week, I love snow and I have to be honest when it was falling and fresh on the ground it really did make Dublin a much prettier city.

This is another photo from the Smithfield area in town looking up the Luas Tram Tracks, something a little more industrial about this I like.

Smithfield Luas

McAWilliams — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:54:22 +0000

On Sunday, I was invited to a photowalk with Vodafone as a start to their “Cheer up Ireland” campaign along with 14 other photographers, unfortunately the snow did not show as forecast and instead a thaw had begun from early morning. But we still ended up in Phoenix Park and built a huge snowman and we were certainly cheered up.

This shot was taken from the ferris wheel in Smithfield, looking down on a Luas leaving the tram station.

Scott Kelby Photowalk Dublin 2009

McAWilliams — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:29:35 +0000

Well after all the planning across the world, Scott Kelbys 2nd worldwide photowalk got underway yesterday and I had the honour of leading a fantastic group of 46 people for the Dublin event. Rather then telling you all about it, everyone has been putting their images up on Pix.ie, many thanks to Marcus for allowing us to use the site for the event.

Looking though those photos will give you much more of an idea of what the day was like and can be found at this very handy webpage.

Thanks again to everyone for coming along and making the Dublin walk such a success.

(Photo above taken by Elliot Tucker)

City Hall Stairwell

McAWilliams — Thu, 07 May 2009 21:30:11 +0000

I had never been to Dublin City Hall until Iced Coffees Photowalk, and what a fantastic place to take photos, around every corner was something else to shoot.