[Jody]

January 22, 2010 at 11:11 pm

Thanks for the replies. We ended up getting a place on Banna Beach (well, 800 meters from the beach). Can’t wait now

[Jody]

January 12, 2010 at 1:06 pm

I remember telling my mother when I was 16 that I wanted to be a photographer, even though I’d no experience or didn’t even own a camera. After a few sobering words, I went on to do computer programming in college.

But a few years ago I took my fathers very old digital camera to Milan (A point and click that didn’t even have zoom capability. The camera that is, not Milan). I said to myself “I’m going to give this a real go, try to take good photographs, not just snapshots. I liked what came out and it went from there.

[Jody]

January 4, 2010 at 12:12 pm

Just saw this Zoltan, in the UK though

http://www.customtrailers.co.uk/

[Jody]

December 16, 2009 at 9:48 am

I guarantee we’ll qualify for the Champions League this season! Guarantee it!

[Jody]

December 9, 2009 at 3:31 pm

Donal, it absolutely depends on the location you’re bringing them to.

I bring families to a few locations near where I live. When I started doing it first, I just worked with what was around me. Trees, walls of building, fences… whatever is there. When you’re there with them, let your imagination run.

To kickstart it, why not search for “Outdoor Family Portraits” on flickr or google images to see what you get?

[Jody]

December 2, 2009 at 11:47 pm

I’ve passed this castle quite a few times around sunrise Kev. 5 times a week for over 2 years really… though the time of the sunrise changes obviously. The sun really rises in the wrong spot to shoot from this angle, its easier to shoot it at sunset. However on a foggy morning it can really work with some backlight and mist lifting off the river.

The real problem with shooting here is that its so bloody dangerous. You have to walk onto the middle of that bridge and its always busy. There’s little room to setup a tripod, even in the little gaps in the bridge and you really have to constantly watch your back.

This image though Sinead, as the others have said, is a good start. For me, its a little soft, maybe you need to use a bigger aperture, but I can’t make out any very sharp part of the castle. The day just wasn’t right either, there’s no real light in the sky. Liam’s probably right, 20 minutes before and it could have been much better.

Composition is very strong though, keep it up.

[Jody]

December 1, 2009 at 8:53 pm

Now post a picture of Mrs. Claus

[Jody]

November 28, 2009 at 11:34 pm

Mark wrote:

Aside from the Murphys, any of a large number of English Ales.
Hen’s Tooth, Speckled Hen, Spitfire, Bishop’s Finger, 1698 and on and on… :)

Will sample the Belfast Lager sometime I hope. A Belfast city trip is a must for 2010 !

A man after my own heart. London Pride is the one I’m on at the moment.

Its just a shame you can’t get it on tap in Ireland. Spitfire from the keg is so much better than the bottled stuff

As for lagers, I take the odd Budvar and I’m partial to a bottle of Desperados after a meal.

Mainly Smithwicks in the pub though

[Jody]

November 27, 2009 at 12:05 pm

Now post a picture of sausages

[Jody]

November 26, 2009 at 7:46 pm

Here’s a fish

Post a picture of a bug

[Jody]

November 19, 2009 at 12:00 am

PM Sent

[Jody]

November 18, 2009 at 7:57 pm

Jenny, you very possibly didn’t get a CD. When you turn on the laptop first, does a blue line flash up for a split second before the Dell screen comes up? If so the reinstall files are stored on the machine, not on a CD.

Is it XP Home or Professional that’s on the machine? I might be able to get a CD and post it to you depending on what it is.

[Jody]

November 17, 2009 at 10:23 pm

aoluain wrote:

Tdimension
Link delight
HKBNS

are all good sellers,

why do you need a power seller?

Don’t need one really, just its a bit safer to go with them I’ve found

[Jody]

November 16, 2009 at 12:20 pm

jb7 wrote:

I wonder if Google’s search algorithm’s take account of localizatin?
and if they remember what you click on?

For example, if you enter those search terms, and consistently click on your own result,
will it raise the ranking for that entry?

Google haven’t and won’t release the details of their search engine algorithm for multiple reasons, most of them commercial I’d imagine.

But yes, the general rule seems to be that the more popular your site is (as in more clickthroughs from a particular search word) the higher ranking it is given. This is part of the algorithm as well for Google Ads (that appear on the right hand side of your search results). They are more specific about that because people are buying the advertising. The reasoning here is that they want Google to be people’s first choice when choosing a search engine, so if 90% of people searching the phrase “Photography Ireland” go to Andy McInroy’s site for instance, it will be top because Google will see that as the page people are looking for when searching for that particular phrase.

[Jody]

November 16, 2009 at 12:11 pm

Thanks Everyone.

Cramp – There’s a compatible version of the battery grip on there, a phottix, its getting great reviews on the web for half price of the Canon. A lot of people saying its even better than the Canon. I might go for that!

BM – Tried 7DayShop, its not on there unfortunately, but I’ll try to contact Kerso, thanks.

NFL – Didn’t realise they still existed like that, but the price is big. Maybe UR Galaxy still exist too.

Mark – Thanks for that, I’ll have a look for them too to see what the story is.