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Kyle Tunney Photography: Venice At Night
This is a HDR image taken in the lovely city of Venice, Italy.
Hot off the Memory Card: Classic Puffin
A fairly classic Puffin shot, with the background grass nicely blurred. Although, as I was processing it I found that the rock/grass on the lower left very distracting. Still, it's probably my best Puffin shot of the day and this alone justified the €40 for the boat out there.
Colette McNamara Photography: I See You… Degree Show Detail
Statement;
You are being watched. Drive through any populated area and you are likely to be photographed. An evening stroll through town will see you recorded hundreds of times. Every time you log on, make a phone call, win an auction online your details are being recorded.
Techonlogy has realised mass surveillance, at a click any proscribed Irish Government department can request information on your communications, e-mails, even your current location via your mobile phone.
I chose photography as my primary medium to explore the the relationship between the camera and the photographer that is analogous to that of the closed circuit television system and the operator. I decided to attempt to engage this relationship. I drew inspiration from Bruce Naumann and Sophie Calle and began photographing hundreds of CCTV cameras, people became guarded and suspicious towards me, security guards confronted me, photographing a CCTV camera on the side of a building became a personal sleight, I had invaded their space.
From then on invading space became the backbone of my work, I wanted to get inside the mind of a voyeur. I invaded indiscriminately, i took snapshots, followed people and hid cameras. The video is a catalog of this invasion, an enduing facsimile of events as I have witnessed them, it’s soundtrack a mixture of synthesizer, radio sounds and a recording of a numbers station, one of many clandestine radio transmissions of unknown origin.
You are the subject of this invasion, I See You…"
The space was set up with two TVs, on the left was a video playing on the right a Live feed CCTV camera and looked like this: 
The video, which may be viewed below, consists of a series of colour photos I had taken since September, following pieces, candid shots and cctv cameras. they play in quick succession and then suddenly stop, turn black and white then get glitchy like that of an old broken CCTV monitor. There are 3 sound tracks, one from i-life sound effects, a scratching record player and a tape rewind and one of which I created on the Micro Korg synth, an audio hum that intensifies when on the still images. The 3rd sound track and most important is that of a shortwave Numbers Station called The Swedish Rhapsody. These stations transmitted coded content in the form of numbers or letters and were proceeded by an unusual piece of music, in this case the type of ice-cream van jingle, then counting from one to ten twice. This allowed the receiving party time to prepare for their secret transmission. These stations originated in World War 1 and were expected to end after WW2, however, the activity of these stations has increased in the last 50 years and yet no country lays claim to them. The combination of the ‘being watched photos’ and the strange sounds and seeing themselves on the CCTV feed, create an eerie feeling, feeding into the whole paranoia of being watched. Beside my TV’s I had a plinth with my book of photos, my statement and my business cards. For the assessments also I had my portfolio of images, scrap books, sketchbooks and research folders which looked like this:
Out in the corridor as you walk into the space there is vinyl contact lettering saying I See You… right beside a CCTV camera. Here is the vid, I See You… 
This is over now, there shall be no more of it…
Latchiko: Enrique y Marion 2
The amazing Enrique Ringa and Marion Krauthaker. This was one of those rare shots where everything came together perfectly, from concept through to final frame.
Big thanks to Nev for building the tango-shoe-bulb-attachment-and-battery-pack-device Version 2 as well as directing the dancers. Thanks too to Dave for helping out with the lighting.
Lighting info:
Single bare 550EX to camera right, triggered optically for second curtain sync using an on camera 580EX snooted in the direction of the optical receiver.
inphotos.org: Burning Embers
The burning embers of a bonfire glow brightly in the chill Arizona night.
Taken in January 2008 when Automattic visited Arizona. Here’s another shot of that fire!
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Grannymar: A simple walk
The day was calm, dry and the sun shone warming my bones and casting shadows. The speed limit is 30 miles per hour but at that moment there were no moving vehicles, the only sound came from high in the trees and I was enjoying the winged choir. A smooth clean and level path was a welcome addition.
It is a road well known to me so I am aware of the hazards…. Irresponsible dog owners who regularly ignore the signs to use a poop scoop, leaving me to dodge around the mess! Facing traffic hurtling around that bend at break neck speed far to busy to obey the rules of the road. If they were not enough hazards to contend with, add in the over hanging branches.
I am 5′6″ and the photo was taken with the viewfinder to my eye and not looking through the larger screen. If you travel back along the lowest branch on the left hand side to a bright patch under a cone, that is my eye level. I need to bend my head to my chest in order to pass underneath, or step into the road and oncoming traffic (we drive on the left hand side of the road).
This is one of many trees overhanging this wall. The gardens on the other side of the wall are at a much higher level. In wet and windy winter weather it is more hazardous. Our days are shorter, darker and mostly wet. As the branches wave and trash about weighed down with water they are capable of knocking off glasses, causing facial injury or in an extreme case causing the loss of an eye.
There are electricity cables running above the level of the wall. At least every two years the Northern Ireland Electricity demand that the upper branches are cut back from the path of the wires. Pedestrians are not catered for at all. I have in the past approached the local council on my own behalf and behalf of others who walk along this way, but they do nothing.
Neighbourhood watch in these parts is of the squinting window variety, The people watch plenty, but when asked they have seen nothing!
Am I within my rights to bring clippers and cut the offending branches or to approach the house owners (more than one), or will it antagonize them into further non-action?
CillDaraMan: Model Bird
Model Bird
This time of the year Puffins are the star of the show when it comes to Irish wildlife photography, with the result that every available chance is taken to capture good images before thy finish breeding and disappear out to sea until next year.
This shot does no justice to the slope that the photographer was perched on, the height of the cliffs he was a few feet from or the queue of folks (including me a few minutes later) waiting to take his place.
BTW, there is a Puffin in the bottom left hand corner....
