Darren Greene: showplace of the nation
The next time I visit NYC I must head inside this place.
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Will Knott: Half defrocked
While the picture below looks like something for “picture is unrelated” there is a story behind it.
I don’t know the whole story, just my part.
And the phrase “bring your camera everywhere with you” (and yes I have bathroom graffiti shots to prove the “everywhere part”).
When David Maybury was departing for parts foreign, a small bloggers party was thrown for him at Le Circ. (I have a few pictures of the night). I left early via the bar’s rear door, which opens on to another street with more bars.
And this fellow was standing outside thanks to the smoking ban.
I have no idea why. I did ask if it was OK to take the shot, but I have no idea why.
Vicars and tarts anyone?
Oddly, since the window in Le Circ overlooking this scene is all stained and leaded glass, I doubt anyone inside noticed.
Hot off the Memory Card: Zebra Pattern
I love that this pattern is so recognizable that you don't need to see the whole animal to know what it is.
Iced Coffee: Bubble
Pretty much the only bubble I managed to capture. They’re damn tough, but I quite like the simplicity of this.
inphotos.org: Pretty in Pink
Beautiful, pretty pink flowers in Fitzgerald’s Park, Cork in July 2007. I already posted a photo of these flowers but this one was sitting in my TODO box for so long it had to see the light of day!
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Donal: Gimp Copyright Frame with White Inner Border
Last weekend I finally got around to editing Donncha’s script for adding a border using Gimp to suit my own needs. I like to have a white inner border with the copyright text in the white border. Click here to get the .scm file.
You can check out Donncha’s post for details on how to change this script for your own purposes but the change I made was to add the donal-draw-white-frame function which is then made invisible by setting the opacity to zero. I also increased the inFrameWidth variable to 10 as I wanted a bigger space for the text. I used to use a width of 5 pixels for the black border but I’m happy enough with the 10 pixel black border. I also used to have letter spacing of 1 for the copyright text but I couldn’t figure out the gimp_text_layer_set_letter_spacing () function but life’s too short! If you know how to do this, please let me know in the comments. Still, with a little compromise, I think this is going to save me a lot of time when editing photos.
I’ve also finally set up my shortcuts properly on Gimp so a quick re-size, run script, save as and I’m done.
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