There’s a spot above Killarney — Aghadoe Heights — where there’s a terrific view of the lakes.
Not surprisingly, it’s where the wedding parties go for the obligatory photoshoot.
Flickr version here.
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A Flickr of interest
This morning’s Observer column.
At a Royal Society symposium on web science this week, Tim Berners-Lee let slip an interesting observation. Many people, said the web's inventor, no longer make a distinction between Facebook and the web. My guess is that these people are mainly teenagers – those whose experience of cyberspace is coloured by the fact that the first thing they encountered online was social networking. They started with Bebo and MySpace and then graduated to Facebook. And there they have stayed.
So, for them, Facebook is where it's at. That explains why they no longer use email, for example, except – grudgingly – to collect official communications from school or college. Most of their electronic communications are routed either via text messaging or Facebook updates. Almost all teenage party invitations now come via Facebook, which has also become the logbook of their lives. When it was announced a couple of weeks ago that Flickr, the photo-hosting site, had hosted its five billionth picture, someone pointed out smugly that Facebook already has over three times that number…
Molten treacle?
No: just water swirling at the foot of a lovely waterfall. But it’s amazing the effect that light and movement can have.
Larger size here.
Cascade
Lady of the lake
Taken on Friday at one of my favourite golf courses — Killarney. It wasn’t clear whether this lady was a golf widow or just someone who wanted to drink in the entrancing view on a perfect late-September day. Not that it makes any difference. It was a nice moment, either way.
Larger version here.
Hasselblad H4D-31: medium format digital for downsizing millionaires
At Photokina today, Hasselblad introduced the H4D-31, a camera that actually makes digital medium format photography considerably more affordable (albeit still pretty darn expensive for a “young photographer”).
The camera weighs in at 31 megapixels rather than 40, but the 22.5% decrease in resolution translates into a generous 35% decrease in price: the H4D-31 costs about $13,000. You also get your choice of a 80mm prime lens or a lens adapter that allows you to use V-System lenses you already own.
Hmmm… That’s only £8,300 in old money. A snip, dear boy, a snip. A mere bagatelle, as Bertie Wooster might say. Form an orderly queue.
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The Royal spews
Seen in Versailles. Flickr version here.
The family that prays together…
… makes a mobile phone call individually.
Spotted outside the cathedral in Versailles. Flickr version here.
Mists and mellow fruitfulness
I love September. Perhaps it’s because I’m an academic — and therefore for me it represents the beginning of a new year. (I’ve never been able to take January seriously for that reason.) Anyway, this is what my world was like this morning. And yet by 11.30am it was like this just round the corner:
Makes me wonder if we are going to have an Indian summer?
