McAWilliams Photoblog

So the Irish Blog Awards are almost here, I cant wait for tomorrow night. I met up with Damien today and he cant wait for them to be over, he has worked relentlessly for the past 3 years to organise a great event that has grown from 100 or so people the first year to 400 people this year, fair play man.

Also I am looking forward to Redmums photowalk tomorrow which takes place at 12pm at the spire on O Connell Street. Hopefully the weather will hold up.

Then Sunday myself and Fiona Mc Phillips are been interviewed on RTE Radio 1 for a programme called “This Week“. We will be talking about blogging in general and also about the awards themselves. I am thrilled to have been asked because I feel the Photo side of blogging never really gets talked about in any media like TV, Radio or newspapers, probably because we write feck all normally and allow the pictures to do the talking, not much news in that. The only bad thing is I am been picked up at 10.15am by taxi to get to Donnybrook so I will have to take it handy tomorrow night with the gargle.

Anyhow I decided its ages since I posted a self portrait and I have seen many folk use the mirror effect well so I decided to give it a shot, it is also a great record for myself of my changes with age, style and glasses.

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I was trying out some more photographs with the flash tonight and they were all crap, so I aimed the camera at myself since I ain’t had a self portrait for a while and on bringing it to the computer I decided to make this post very short, cause I need a shave badly.

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Well I did not take this picture but it was my camera that took it, and it shows that other new years resolution been failed, yes I still smoke and have that noose around my neck.

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I know this shot has been elsewhere, but I was dieing to try it out for myself.

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Well I am still deciding on SLR’s what a bitch its proving to be. I had a feel of both the Canon 350d and Nikon D50 and I will admit the Nikon feels so nice to hold, but the Canon was so easy to navigate due to my knowledge of Canon’s, so I am now veering towards Canon again. Next choice is the 350D or the new 400D…… argh.

Here is a little self portrait of myself, messed about in Photoshop.

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Yes its me, I had no other ideas for photos today so here is my mouth.

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A self portrait kind off, well my shadow reflected onto the stones at Bray seafront.

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