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Notre Dame in Paris is home to bums, entertainers, tourists, and the Statue Of Charlemagne, I believe also known as Charles the Great, or King of the Franks. While at Notre Dame be prepared to be approached by randomers asking stupid questions – it doesn’t work to speak back in english as there’s a good chance they can speak it. A good tip though, if you can, speak Irish! – they won’t have a clue what you are saying, I didn’t even know fully what I was saying!
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Everything in Paris is so much more grander than here in Ireland, buildings are more massive, people are more rude etc… I’m pretty sure this was in Sacré-Coeur, on top of Montmartre, the highest point in Paris I’ll have you know. While recognizing some of the flags I’m sorry to say I can’t put a country to a single one 
My geography knowledge sucks.
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This shot was taken the same day as A Sunset Peeking Through The World – it was taken on a bridge with plenty of traffic rumbling past so timing was crucial 
. Originally every shot I took was coming out really under-exposed, until I realised the camera was set to manual and shutter speed was at something like zero – so remember kids, check your settings
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And back to Paris! I spent most of the first day photographing anything and everything near and around the Eiffel Tower. In some of the shots the Eiffel Tower is in the way but not the one below – you can pass this pond and flower arangement if you approach the Eiffel Tower from the side that the Wall of Peace is located, on the Champs de Mars. Like almost all my photos from Paris, this one was handheld – dragging a tripod around with friends is a definite no no
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I’ve passed this stream so many times on my way into Dublin City Centre and each time thought I should stop and take a few snaps. I picked a good time when I finally got around to it and caught the sun trying to break through the trees as it began to set.
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This was my first significant glimpse of the Eiffel Tower in Paris (obviously), unfortunately it was a really gloomy day and so all the shot I took were rather dull compared to what they could have been. Also I didn’t get to ascend to its top due to maintenance work in progress!
It was still well worth seeing though – summertime though would have been a much better time.
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I’m finally back from Paris and it was fantastic – I saw plenty of sights, drank lots of cheap (as low as €2 for a bottle but better than most crap in Ireland), ate lots of great food, slept on the floor of my frend’s ‘small’ flat, and learnt no French whatsoever!
I have plenty of pictures to go through, but I’ve just noticed that I had the ISO set a little too high for my liking on the first day so apologies in advance if there is some noise in upcoming photos.
Below is Napoleon the Second, I think, Second or Third.
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This stature stands within my college beside out resident lake. It’s a mystery to me – I don’t know who built it, when, why, for how much, I know nothing about it! What I do know is that it makes a great photo
It’s my last day in Paris , I’ll be back this evening to trawl though all my new pictures though!
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Does this look comfortable? Don’t think so! Originally I was planning to shoot this from a high angle above it, but then decided to shoot from below to give it more presence in the foreground. What do you think?
It’s day five in Paris, only another one day left now
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Although I usually hate very cloudy days when taking photographs, this image turned out very well I think. It wasn’t really this dark at the time but by saturating the colours and altering the curve levels in GIMP I was able to give the picture a more Gothic look, is that the right word?
It’s day four in Paris, only another two days left now
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This is some strange building in my college – I’m not sure of it’s purpose but it’s odd exterior serves for an interesting shot. The multiple birds in the center is a dead giveaway that I blended different exposures here! I should have removed them but I was scheduling these post quickly on Monday as I was heading off on holiday
It’s day three in Paris, only another three days left now
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I was trying to arrange the benches here so that the closest one is entirely in the foreground and the other three then extend backwards into the distance. I didn’t manage to get all of the near bench in the foreground but it’s still OK. I’m still in Paris – it’s amazing I expect (I wrote this on Monday), I’ll be returning to Ireland on Saturday evening.
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Well I’m off to Paris today (in about three hours) for some sightseeing and cheap accomodation. I’m bringing my D300 with me so I expect to get lots of pictures while I’m over there. There’ll still be a daily picture all week so be sure to call back Here’s another picture from my campus grounds – it’s the only distance I have to walk to get into college but it actually feels very long because a straight line. Weird or?
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I like trains much more than buses, you can relax more easily and spread out on a train, but on a bus you’re squeezed into tiny seats and probably end up stuck beside some overweight lardass who doesn’t understand the concept of sharing equally. That’s from personal experience.
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Remember this guy?, the one seagull standing all lonesome? I snapped a second shot of him just as he took off – he’s the real blurry seagull closest to the lens. This was also taken by hand, with a tripod hanging out from the bottom (a D300 plus tripod is heavy!) and birds were flying everywhere – some kids were throwing bread around, stupid kids.
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This is Thomas Michael Kettle – I don’t know who he is but I’m sure Wikipedia is clued in:
Extracted verbatim from Wikipedia:
Thomas Michael “Tom” Kettle (9 February 1880 – 9 September 1916) was an Irish journalist, barrister, writer, poet and economist. As nationalist, Home Rule politician and MP in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, he represented East Tyrone as member of the Irish Parliamentary Party from 1906-1910. He joined the Irish Volunteers in 1913, then on the outbreak of World War I in 1914 enlisted for service in an Irish regiment where in 1916 he met his death on the Western Front.
He was one of the leading figures of the generation who at the turn of the twentieth century gave new intellectual life to Irish party politics, and to the constitutional movement towards All-Ireland Home Rule. The Great War brought both of these and his life to an end. A gifted speaker with an incisive mind and devastating wit, his death was regarded as a great loss to Ireland’s political and intellectual life.
See? This site isn’t just about pretty pictures – you learn on interesting topics from time to time also
OK this is a strange one so needs a little explaining – why is it so overblown? Well, if you look at An Eerie Train Station you should be able to see something grey on the very first small window on the far left; that’s where these two guys are sitting. I had taken five shots of them – looking at the thumbnials on my computer I could see each was brighter than the last so naturally I assumed I had taken different shutter speeds and had anchored the camera on some rigid surface. Turns out now as I remember it, each shot was taken at a different ISO and I was holding the camera – hence the obvious blurryness in the image below.
I only realised this once I had opened HDR Max but I thought it was unusual and was something different so I decided to keep it. It’s completely unrealsitic for sure, something you might see after 3 straight days of LSD. Opinions are welcome
I spent new years at a wedding in a hotel somewhere in Dublin (I got a group minibus and wasn’t asking directions!). I had brought my D300, just in case, and sure enough, once some drink took hold in the middle of the night I decided to wander around the hotel to see what I could find, even though it was pitch dark. Luck was with me though; the hotel was situated on the coast and across the water was a peninsula called Howth. It was alight with, well light, and balancing my Nikon on a rickety fence, took five exposures and came out with this very, very warm shot.
OK I’ve actually no idea what this ‘thing’ is, hence the title, and I like Harry Potter. I was walking by and it looked photo worthy so I clicked away with my trusty D300, although when I look at the photo and try to think of what the subject might be, the word ‘carousel’ comes to mind. But I’m sure that’s not it.
This photo came out slightly bland so I ran it through GIMP afterwards and fiddled with the curves to give it a little extra UMPH, as you do.
So c’mon, who’s gonna tell me what this thing is? If your site is even remotely in a similar field as mine I’ll stick you on my blogroll as a reward – first come first served! (Update: Gilbert was first with the answer – he doesn’t have a photography website so here’s his Twitter page)!
