Spring morning in the back yard.

March 25, 2017George McNeill 13 Comments

Woke this morning to the rising sun hitting the bedroom window, one look and I and my old pal where quick to get outside. I was setting up the tripod just has the last of the mist was kissing the lough surface. I took these with a 70- 300 telephoto lens, bracketing some of them and editing them in HDR Efex Pro. With the mist and a hoar frost coating the foliage it was a beautiful morning to be out. My old pal enjoyed following whatever scents and trails he was came across. Exploring the world by his nose like dogs do.

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Laid to rest 2

January 20, 2016George McNeill Leave a comment

A couple of other photos from the cemetery. The first is a HDR toned photo of the broken headstone. _DSC2022

And the second is a monochrome I call Three in a row

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78/365 Shutter release challenge

January 17, 2016January 17, 2016George McNeill 2 Comments

Why??

WHY do we keep so much useless bits in a container, Might we need them someday yet to come. WHY do we do the same with what hurts us. Why keep all that stuff in our human container, so it can hurt us again another time. Every now and then we need to sort out the container and dump what is useless. Same with that which hurts and makes us suffer, let go of it. Throw it away so it can no longer hurt us. Its only when we keep the container as empty has possible that the WHY becomes why.

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HDR. Photograph’s

January 16, 2016George McNeill Leave a comment

Was down in Trim in County Meath, Ireland and spend a few hours walking around. Going over to the Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul at Newtown. It was a cold and damp, not a great day for photography. So back in the warmth I played around in Photoshop and HDR toned a couple of photo’s. Now I don’t do much Photoshop for I really don’t know a lot about it. I did enjoy playing around with it while watching the turf burning bright in the fire and the fog drop outside. I have looked at other HDR photo’s with mixed feelings. Some seem to bring a photo to life and others an overkill. I enjoy all types of art work and like all image types. Street art to the classics I enjoy but HDR I’m still on the fence. Maybe when I paint or draw it takes personal input to get the same effect, while its just a case of letting the software alter the data in a photograph with HDR. It’s something I will play around with and see what effects can be had and then see if my thoughts on it change. I’m not judging those that like and us it, I will play around with it and see where I land.

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