I’m led to believe this is the tallest building in Ireland. I suspect we’re still a little behind New York.

Last night was the first CPA outing for 2010. A trip to St. Malachys church in Belfast was organised

We got about 2 and a half hours in the church by ourselves to take photographs of the wonderful architecture and imagery. It’s a fantastic place and worth a visit whether you’re religious or not.

Unfortunately, extreme bad timing meant there was some repair work ongoing and part of the alter had scaffolding on it. This got me thinking about the detail though, so most of the night was spent with a macro lens.

Anyway, this is one of a few wider shots I took. Thanks to Frank for sitting still!

Learned a useful lesson last night. Don’t just check your camera and batteries before you leave the house. Check ALL the gear you’re bringing. I was setting up a shot and lost maybe 20 minutes and a several handfuls of hair before discovering one of my remote triggers was receiving signal from the camera but not actually triggering the flash.

One of my favourite hobbies these days is reviewing pictures I took a few weeks earlier to see if anything jumps out or if some new technique I learned about suddenly gives me a way to improve on something.

This photograph, taken a week or two ago at the tall ships didn’t really say much to me then, though I do quite like the fact it shows the modern shipyards through the rigging of the older boats bow.

I was just playing with some HDR stuff and suddenly it seems to get a nice life to it.

I didn’t appreciate how bright snow had the potential to make a shot until this week.

I also discovered getting wet knees for your art is no fun either.

(f/7.1, 1/250sec, 50mm, ISO-200, 6/02/2009)