by Shane McDonald | Jan 6, 2017 | General, Photography
Feile 92 Photos
In 1992 I was at Feile in Thurles after I won a competition on 98 FM. I recently found a collection of old photos which were taken with a Fuji disposable camera which I bought at Feile. The camera was very poor, as you would expect from a disposable camera from 24 years ago.
Below is a select gallery of images from that day. If you spot yourself please leave a comment !
My memories of Feile are certainly varied. The weather was showery and I recall it lashing down as Christy Moore went on. I also recall many drunk people at the festival, at one point I thought I was walking on a riser but it was a drunk person under my foot – frightening. Extreme were amazing and I recall the discoball-like outfits of Shakespear Sister. I also remember, as the photo proves, the “Peig” notice on the big screen. There was also the countdown to Bryan Adams arrival on stage.
by Shane McDonald | Oct 10, 2016 | Photography
Since January 2011 I have being running a photography blog on www.shanemcdonald.me. Initially I was updating the site every week or so, but it quickly went to being updated every month. In 2016, I think I updated it only 4-5 times which is a pity. One of the biggest observations has been the way the traffic drops when you don’t update a website often. Whit that in mind, I hope to update the new design a bit more often than in the past.
The content on the site would include photos of places I have been or events I have photographed. The Photography Blog design has changed somewhat since the blog started and I continue to tweak it on an ongoing basis. Only last week I started a major overhaul of the site to try find the optimum style for me. Work is ongoing with this and the photo blog itself still needs some work. I will be reinventing the blog until I am 100% happy with the layout and user experience. To date I am not exactly happy and hopefully you will get to see my photos in the right light in the near future.
My Photography Blog on Facebook / Twitter and Instagram
If you want to follow my photography blog on Facebook visit https://www.facebook.com/ShaneMcDonald.Photography for regular updates. You can also follow @shanesphoto on Twitter and @shanesphoto on Instagram. I constantly post on instagram as I feel it is a great way to show off my work and 500px is also vital to me for my portfolio.
Check out the main photo blog at www.shanemcdonald.me
by Shane McDonald | Oct 23, 2012 | Personal, Photography
I haven’t updated this blog in quite some time, but I have been updating my Photoblog at www.shanemcdonald.me recently with some photos of Canada. So Far, Toronto, Niagara Falls and Montreal have had images uploaded.
If you are on Twitter you can follow my @shanesphoto or my personal twitter account @mrshanemcdonald
I hope to have some time to include more updates here soon..
by Shane McDonald | Jan 10, 2012 | Personal
The concept of Project365 is a way of documenting your life or your photography by taking a photo every day for a year. With the new 5 and 8 MegaPixels camera phones this project365 concept is becoming more popular and images are shared on social networks such as Facebook. I tried Project365 in 2010 and didn’t get far, due to not having the focus or time, to post a unique photo every day.
This year I decided to post a Photo per week in Project52. That way I can maintain some quality within the photos posted rather than just posting any old photo.
What is Project52?
Every week, for one year (52 weeks), I will be taking a photo and posting it online, at shanemcdonald.me, My PhotoBlog.
Photos of what?
The Photos will be of anything ; whatever I am around or whatever I find interesting.
I will be using a DSLR at all times unless I am travelling when I will be using the iPhone 4S which has an excelent camera.
Week 1 of Project52
You can see the first post at shanemcdonald.me by clicking here.
Follow my PhotoBlog on Twitter @shanesphoto or my main account @smcdonalddotorg
by Shane McDonald | Dec 1, 2010 | Personal, Photography
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)
Is it PhotoBlog or Photo Blog?
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,
