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May 16 2015

Posted by Brendan Ó Sé on

Two photographs to post today. I have been posting fewer and fewer images to Flickr lately. Been busy getting my new website up and running and the good news is that within a short few days the site will be live. Really excited about it.

Photography is a funny business. There is so much to enjoy and so much that will frustrate the hell out of you. So much! But you know I am beginning to realise that what I like most is the creation of abstract images like this. It is just such fun. So many possibilities. I need to get back to creating more blurred images. I have been focussing too much on street photography lately. This series of images will fall into a category I am calling “The pip-pop life span of worries“.

The pip-pop life span of worries [2]

The pip-pop life span of worries [2]

Here is an iPhone image shot that falls into another of my favourite series: “Trees need to cheer the fuck up“. And you know they do!

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Trees need to cheer the fuck up

 

 

April 3 2015

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Things on my mind today:

How love changes like a song heard in the wind; sometimes faint, sometimes strong, but always heard;

Believe – achieve! Kiss this future…

Committed to the future

Committed to the future

Trees need to cheer the fuck up

Trees need to cheer the fuck up

March 12 2015

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Have been so taken up with the Apple ‘shot on iPhone‘ experience that I have not posted new photographs on here for a while. Since buying the new Fuji x100t, I have been out a few times with it. I still need to get control over this camera but I am happy with some of the shots I have managed.

This first one is one I got on Cork’s Grand Parade (what a fancy name for a street – I would guess when they were giving it its title they had images finely dressed ladies and gentlemen sauntering along on sunny summer days in mind). The building the guy is standing in front of has been derelict now for a long time. I like that we cannot see this man.

This future is now. Kiss it!

This future is now. Kiss it!

The second photograph is another Fuji one and part of the ongoing series of images of reflections I am working on. This was shot into the venetian blinds of the windows of a bank opposite a church in the city centre of Cork.

Cork

Cork

And on to some iPhone images. Advertising works! Inspired by some of the landscapes shots on the Apple World Gallery I found that when I was out I was framing landscape shots and thinking could I do that? Don’t know if I want to, but I do know I like trees. And we all know what trees need to do.

Trees need to cheer the fuck up

Trees need to cheer the fuck up

The most recent iPhone shot is one that was lying in the archives until it popped out when I was looking through them. Not sure how I missed this one from Taipei last year. I love the colours.

Taipeie

Taipeie

I will post an update to ‘The story of my ‘shot on iphone’ photograph’ on Monday.

January 31 2015

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Things on my mind: A friend; A farewell; A laugh; A wish.

This Tokyo Night

This Tokyo Night

This Tokyo Night

This Tokyo Night

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January 27 2015

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What they say about leaving images marinate can be true, in that images you might initially overlook seem to transform with time and you find yourself thinking how the hell did I not see this before. Conversely, an image that gets your immediate attention can also transform with time and elicit a similar ‘how the hell did I not see that’ reaction.

This is an image I had lying in iPhoto and once I clicked through it I knew I had to do a little work on it. This was taken in Tokyo last year. Late night Tokyo. Is there anywhere better in the world to shoot late at night?

Thing is here though, that I cannot decide to leave the image in colour or to leave it in black and white. What do you think? I posted the colour one on Flickr – but I do like the B+W as well.

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This Tokyo Night

This Tokyo night

This Tokyo night

 

 

 

 

And one more in the Trees need to cheer the fuck up series.

Trees need to cheer the fuck up

Trees need to cheer the fuck up

January 24 2015

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Blank pages, blank screens. Fingers perched on keyboard, ready to go, like a child waiting to jump over a skipping rope.  But nothing comes. Take the easy way out and bullet point things. Be lazy and don’t elaborate.

Things on my mind today:

I need to get out shooting. I need for the new camera to arrive and to get out. It is an excuse. I have cameras. Any one would do to get out and get new photographs. I am just lazy.

Organisation: I need (there’s that word again – need) to get things organised. I need to get things organised so I can move forward.

Fun: I need to rediscover what fun is.

Final image in the series of three from Tokyo.

Tokyo night [3]

Tokyo night [3]

When I first took up photography, I was drawn to photographing trees. Still am in a way. But, fuck! They need to cheer the fuck up!

Trees need to cheer the fuck up

Trees need to cheer the fuck up

January 23 2015

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Things on my mind today:

The things we fear most, rarely happen.

The things we dream to achieve, we rarely achieve, but in trying we achieve things we cannot dream.

There is only one road to travel and with each step we take we create a new one and destruct the used one.

 

Two photos today:

Tokyo Night

Tokyo Night

 

Trees need to cheer the fuck up


Trees need to cheer the fuck up