I was delighted to find that my photo of Kinsale Co. Cork was included on the 2013 Morris Oil calendar.
At this stage the photo has made it onto the 2013 calendar but in order to win the overall prize it must get the most LIKES.
Original Post : http://www.shanemcdonald.me/042012-kinsale-co-cork-14project-52/
I have just launched a Photography Blog, I decided that although I use Flickr and Picasa for storing photos, I wanted something extra for displaying photos and discussing everything to do with Photography.
The link is www.shanemcdonald.me
ShaneMcDonald.me Photo Blog (screenshot)
When doing my research I was curious to the naming – is it “Photo Blog” or “PhotoBlog”. Using Google Insights for Search and Google Trends I was able to see which was most used.
It turns out that PhotoBlog is a growing search term which is 2 or 3 times more popular than “Photo Blog”.
If you are doing SEO work and you have a photo blog then this information might be useful. The Google trends system is a great way to find out which term is more widely used and also if terms are growing or declining in search.
Hope you enjoy my site – still only a few posts on it but I hope to have at least 15 posts by the end of the year,
This picture of an amazing Cloud Formation which I spotted when driving alond the desert road in New Zealand (the N1 road towards Lake Taupo). Its like something from the start of War of the Worlds or the new alien feature, Skyline.
Amazing Cloud Formation spotted in New Zealand – Looks like a UFO is just about to break through the clouds…
Below is a close up of the clouds shows the weird formation which I had never seen anything like before.
Close-up of the weird cloud formation
Weird eh?
Students in China have proposed that a technology called PhotoSketch can create an Internet image montage from other photos. The project from 5 Chinese Computer Science and Technology students at the Tsinghua University and the National University of Singapore say that their PhotoSketch research paper can create a unique photo using other photos.
All you have to do to create your PhotoSketch is:
1) Create an outline of the figures you want in your photo, e.g. an Airplane, Bird and a Sunset
2) Create and add labels for each of the outlined items in step 1, as well as for the photo background.
3) The PhotoSketch system will then search for web images which match your outline. PhotoSketch will then complie them into a Photo Montage.
Apparently the initial results for PhotoSketch Demo are something beyond what any current automated tool can provide.
The Abstract of the system reads as follows;
“We present a system that composes a realistic picture from a simple freehand sketch annotated with text labels. The composed picture is generated by seamlessly stitching several photographs in agreement with the sketch and text labels; these are found by searching the Internet. ” – Tao Chen, Ming-Ming Cheng, Ping Tan, Ariel Shamir, Shi-Min Hu, (Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University & National University of Singapore)
The students at T.U and N.U.S have results from a PhotoSketch Demo:
Visit http://cg.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn/montage/main.htm for details
Weather conditions were more favourable for viewing the ISS & Space Shuttle over Waterford & Ireland in general (my family in Naas watched on also with very good viewing). The event started at 10:33pm and ended at 10:38 – although not as bright as previous evenings it was spectacular.
I took an 8 second exposure of the event which is shown below – There are still some viewings remaining on Tuesday and Thursday this week.
ISS and Space Shuttle over Waterford July 20th 2009
Photo Note : If I was taking the shot again however I would have used f4.5 – 8sec as the f8 – 8 sec was too low light. (ISO 200). If I get a chance Tue or Thur I might post a clearer image.