McAWilliams Photoblog

Hello and welcome to McAWilliams.com the new improved version, but more about that later.

This photograph was taken up on the new bridge which connects Bray with Enniskerry, which opened last week. I am getting home at 7pm ish so I decided to try a traffic zooming by type shot, I think this worked quite well, anyhow onto the main story.

As you may well know, Movabletype 4 proved to be a big headache for me, so much so that I decided to change platform all together and move to Wordpress. I thought it would be easy enough, how mistaken I was the install etc was fantastic and to be fair to the Wordpress programmers they aint lied about the fact it is quite easy. My problem was how I used Moveabletype over the years.

I coded all the templates in Movabletype myself and as such used the default entry page in a strange way, I had also created custom entry fields using a plugin for the likes of meta keywords and descriptions etc, these fields unfortunately did not transfer to the database I had to create for Wordpress, and in the mayhem I lost all the details I had spent years entering.

So with Wordpress I had to start from scratch all that remained from the old site were the entry details and comments but all pictures keywords descriptions for 411 entries had to be re-entered from scratch, hence the delay.

I am using a theme for now but will be modifying this to get some originality back into McAWilliams.com, and what do I think of Wordpress, well as I told Caitriona tonight I aint looking back.

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Well today we in Ireland had a typical Feburary day of grey skies and rain, making photography outdoors difficult, but on the way home a break in the rain came my way, so I decided to try to take a photo showing the reflections of headlights on the road.

Of course standing near Saint Stephens Green you do get a lot of buses passing and even weirder is that today I commented on a similar picture on caitriona.net.

Caitriona I promise this was an unintentional shot, but like I said in my comment they make for great photographs but lousy infrequent transport.

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My first attempt at a bit of slow shutter speed on a dual carraigeway. Could have been better if

1. I had waited for darkness
2. Cars were not still waiting at the traffic lights.

Ah well with winter well and truely on its way Im sure I will get a few more chances.

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A cyclist powering his way through Dublin near Trinity College

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