In a (New) World of My Own

Day 36: Meh?

Mark — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:22:43 +0000

Meh? Galway City’s coach terminal, located at the Fairgreen. This is good, but it could stand to be so much better. In hindsight I wish I had done more to capture the periphery of the building so that I wouldn’t have to crop so closely.

Day 35: Then On.^3

Mark — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:51:40 +0000

Laziness manifests itself. I have created a ‘corrected’ version of an image from yesterday. This version has been properly stitched, sharpened and cropped. My ultimate intent is to have this stitch printed in a floor-to-ceiling format (an eye-popping 27×64 inches!) and mounted in my hallway. When I have a hallway.

Then on. Then on. Then on.

Mark — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:53:50 +0000

I was experimenting with making my digital canvas a wee bit larger. Some would say that I embiggened it.

Day 34: Season’s cheer?

Mark — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:12:24 +0000

Day 33: Fracture

Mark — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:23:00 +0000

Day 32: Gratuitous Contrast Week begins now!

Mark — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:32:02 +0000

I missed yesterday. I was at the bottom of a pit of depression and self-loathing, so the photography had to wait. A serious pit of depression and self-loathing. I was on the teetering verge of cutting myself out of an effort to feel something. #mang

Okay. Well, welcome to Gratuitous Contrast Week, a week of contrast taken to gratuitous levels! My opener is the underground car park at Galway City’s docks complex, behind the Harbour Hotel.

Day 31: Skipped

Mark — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:00:43 +0000

Day 30: People’s Park outro

Mark — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:00:21 +0000

Binocular vision

Mark — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:03:00 +0000

This is a true-to-life representation of my own vision: One eye goes up and one eye goes down.

Day 29: Exposure win!

Mark — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:49:14 +0000

Can I say ‘win!’? Yeah, I can. I’m ordinarily humble about my photographs. I see them in terms of their flaws; softness, blown highlights, uneven horizon, blur and underexposure are what leap out of me when I review them. Recently I have been working on the ‘exposure’ part of matters by trying to nail down correct exposures in difficult situations, such as catching the sunset through a grove of trees.

In this instance I’m happy to say that I believe I’ve nailed it.