once . . . again :)

I Found this on YouTube. . ..

It's nearly as good as the film.

once

Links:- ONCE Official Site - The Frames - The Swell Season

I bought the album a few months ago, and I've been waiting for the DVD to be released ever since. I bought it today. . . :)
This is the best film I've seen all year. And Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová have just won an Oscar™ for best song "Falling Slowly". Here they are performing it at The Oscars Ceremony.

Cocklers

I took this at Crosby a couple of weeks back. This is the first image I have processed using the HDR method.



I think it came out quite well. I purposely didn't bring out the detail in the foreground as it was very noisy. Although it is a HDR I processed it from one exposure.
First I opened The RAW in Lightroom and saved it as three separate files. Each at a different exposure. -2 stops, normal exposure and +2 stops.
then I imported all three files into Photomatix and fiddled about until i got this. Far easier than it sounds and all in my first attempt.

Here's a few useful links:

Adobe Lightroom
Photomatix
Pete Carr's HDR Tutorial

Legacy

I've been sifting through some old photo's from last year, and I found this one. I thought I'd give it the B&W treatment and I think it's turned out rather good.

The work was made by Mark DeGraffenried at a studio 4,000 miles away in Utah, and donated by the Mormon Church.
An eight foot high statue was cast to mark the 85,000 people who passed through the port of Liverpool from 1851 heading for a new life in America.
The sculpture features a family group with a child stepping forward to symbolise the migration.

EARTHQUAKE!!!! My Arse!

Apparently there was an earth tremor last night!?!?! I was was sat at my mac at about 1.00am, when it happened and I didn't notice anything strange. No shakey floor , No shakey table nothing in fact!?!?

So how come everyone in work was talking about it? Apparently it was the biggest one in 25 years. 5.2 on the Richter scale. Come to think of it, the one in 1984 didn't affect me either. i was driving home at about 12 in the afternoon and didn't notice anything strange then. . .
I remember my mum was waiting for me when I got home. I think she thought a bomb had gone off somewhere.

General Theme Update

I've changed the look of my site today. I'm trying to out-geek Linzi but I know I've failed miserably.
The Photo in the background was taken at dusk on Loch Eil, last year.

On another note. I'm turning into a space hopper. So. . . I'm on a diet. As I type this, I'm desperately trying to fight the urge to go and make myself a pork sausage and French mustard, toasted sandwich. I started this diet thingy, yesterday when I weighed myself and had almost touched the 80kg mark. . . i jumped off quick, incase I broke the scales. I'm starving . .. . . . :(

Great Geeks Think Alike

How weird is this?
The top photo in this pair was taken by me on the 18th of Feb at 17.55.
The photo Below was taken by my friend Linzi on 19th of Feb at 17.40.

We haven't seen each-other for yonks and didn't know either of us had been taking photos at the Albert Dock. I didn't post any photo's on here until the 21st and i emailed her to tell her about my new site. She spotted the similarities on Saturday and sent me her photo for comparison. Apart from her's being far sharper and having better colours than mine, they are almost identical.

Linzi is currently working on her new website. studiosilver.net and also has a myspace page myspace.com/linzisilver