Will Knott

When you go off the beaten track; enjoy the view.

Take care,
Will Knott

(I really have to start writing posts again)

No jokes about eating crow now…

First off, Thanks to Donncha for arranging the Photowalk in Doneraile on Saturday. OnIy only got around to uploading my photos last night. The photo above is of a little baby crow. Whom we sort of hassled.

I think he ended up being a touch cranky.

take care,
Will Knott

Tomorrow I’m going off grid for a while

and going to the Doneraile Photowalk at 3pm.

I’ve even gotten access to a GSP (and a friend with camera to read maps if that fails) to get there. Given my ability to get lost while traveling, the technology is a good idea.

Given the things I’ve seen (and photographed) while lost, maybe not. Anyway, I’ve asked Donncha to post the GPS coordinates on his latest post and see if I can find it.

take care (and see you there?)
Will Knott

oh the above photo. Since I’m commuting to and from Cork again, I’m taking shots along the way (the bus driver doesn’t mind). However early morning (low light) shots from a moving bus (fast shutter speed) is needless to say, less than ideal. Taking the shots in black and white seems to help a little.
Expect a few more to show up here.

I’m not a fan of Facebook

Which is a problem when it comes to Photomeets and Photowalks. And slightly impromptu events and meetings, as the initial invite is sent out via a Facebook invitation. I sort of went off it in the flood of applications, and I’m not surprised that LinkedIn is getting a flood of new users.

The one thing I loved was the friend feed. The quick status updates of “Bob is arriving at three” and “Alice is looking forward to the meeting” and “Eve is still listening”. Of course these are the essential parts of Twitter or Jaiku, or even FriendFeed.com (not the same thing, but I’m intrigued by their rooms to abate noise).

The main use of Facebook I’m doing is trying to track someone I don’t know down and contact them, or as I mentioned, meet-ups (as opposed to Tweet-ups or Meet-kus).

Why all this, it’s because I know about the next photowalk this weekend, (and yes I’m grateful that it e-mails out all messaes and the message contents now) but I have no idea if I’m going yet (and won’t know until that morning). I just don’t want to have to log in to FaceBook to say so.

take care,
Will Knott

As this pops up, I’ll probably be on my way back from 3D Camp, or encamped in a crowd of rugby supporters (how bad) watching Munster do its thing.

This is another ToeJam shot (oddly I’m still sieving through the shots from the walk part of the photowalk), and I just liked the combination…

If you look behind these two gentlemen (responsible for the hat sale) you’ll see a gap in the wall. I went back there to discover a wonderland of discarded items. And the remains of a small fire, possibly to make more room in the wonderland (well hinterland actually).

And in the remains of the fore, were the cards and the king crisps packet. Almost a pity they weren’t the came suit. Still, a pair of kings isn’t that bad a hand.

take care,
Will Knott

I’m knackered. Even my vision is blurred

This is the effect from travelling halfway across the country to meet a bunch of photobloggers for a photowalk. Or in this case, it began with a trip to the ToeJam car boot sale at the back of the George Bernard Shaw pub in Portabello.

Which means that I’m now the proud owner of more books, a CD, the “best of” Mongrel collection and a new laptop. Actually an old heavy laptop which drove me to do silly things. It was going for €10, and at the moment it’s hard disc is getting a little TCL (via Spinrite) to make sure that it’s working.  If anything interesting shows up, I’ll blog it.

I will admit to a little camera envy. Mines small enough to fit in my (admittedly big) hands. Rather than the large lensed creatures the others were using. However something that fits in the pocket attracts a lot less attention.

It was nice meeting some semi-familiar faces like Red Mum, Gingerpixel and Alexia, as well as new faces such as Davy Mc Donald, Caitriona, Iced Coffee, Nathalie Marquez Courtney and Eoghan Casey, and the other Eoin. But it was great (and a little weird) to meet some folk I know because I’ve been following their photos and websites for ideas, namely Darren Greene and McAWilliams.

Later on in the proceedings Debz showed up. So next time, how about something food related for the photomeet?

The results of out endavours will be appearing on our blogs, but keep an eye of the Flickr pool and the Pix.ie tags.

take care,
Will Knott