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A hand saw & a beard

connormcc — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 08:30:01 +0000

I was down at Open House Festival last night, shooting The Low Anthem, and Iron and Wine. It was a brilliant, relaxed show, really enjoyed it. It was also the first gig outing for my new camera, I was shooting at ISO 2500, and 3200, and it the quality is fantastic.

This guy has a beard to rival Supersimbo

More photos on Flickr

Your Favourite?

connormcc — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:33:39 +0000

One of my favourite areas of photography is travel photography. Be that photos taken on holiday in the UK, or further afield. I would love to get some feedback on what you guys think are my best travel photos.

I think the photo above, of the blue car driving through the streets of Havana, Cuba, is probably my favourite travel photo. What do you think though, I would really appreciate if you guys could tell me what are your top 4 favourite travel photos that I have taken. You can have a look at the full collection in the travel segment of my flickr.

If you go have a little look at the travel photos on there, and then come back to the blog and leave a comment on this post. Thanks.

Reliving Childhood

connormcc — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 14:04:43 +0000

When my brother and I were younger, we would always go with our parents on family holidays. Quite often the holidays would have been to England in the caravan. I always enjoyed going away on these trips, and I think it’s down to these that I have such a love of travel. However, I don’t think I ever really appreciated some of the places we went to, gardens, estates, mansions, quaint little villages etc, and I usually got bored quickly.

Bourton on the Water

Now that I am older though, and also because I am a photographer, I am coming to realise how great these places we went to really were. I want to revisit the places my parents took me as a child. Recently, I had a week off work, and Lorraine and I headed to one of these places. We flew over to Bristol, hired a car and drove up to the Cotswolds fo a few days. It was brilliant, to just relax, with no plans, and appreciate the beautiful area of England we were in. We made the most of the car hire and unlimited mileage, we stayed in Bourton on the Water, and visited Lower Slaughter, Burford, Stow on the Wold, Stratford Upon Avon, Oxford and Bath.

Punts

Radcliffe Camera

As always, Lorraine has all the ‘normal’ photos, and I spent a lot of time behind my SLR.

Old Buildings in Stratford

Bath Abbey

There are a few more photos on my Flickr

A wee update…

connormcc — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:01:18 +0000

Time for an update.

Firstly I must apologise to those of you who actually visit my blog in a browser rather than via RSS. You guys will have noticed the theme changing quite a lot over the past few weeks. I had toyed with the idea of this becoming a photo-blog but have changed my mind on that, and I am now looking for theme that isn’t predominately photo based, but is still simple.

Hopefully within the coming weeks I will have 2 blogs, one will be this blog, a personal blog, and the other one will be a professional blog as part of a new photography website that will be coming hopefully in the near future. There may be a crossover in some of the content however.

I have been doing photography for a few years now, and I love it. It really is my passion, and I finally am taking the steps, to actually set up my own business. Its something I have talked about for ages, and within the coming weeks that may be realised. So when the new website is all up and running, you will have to stop by, and subscribe to the new blog that will be there.

Stephen & Louise

connormcc — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 14:00:57 +0000

Last weekend, Lorraine and I, along with Stephen and Louise headed up to Donegal for the day. To a village in the north west, Downings, While we were up there we took a drive around the coast, and found a great little secluded beach, Tra na Rossan bay. It was beautiful. Stephen and Louise just got engaged a few days before hand, so we decided to do some engagement photos in the lovely location while we were there.

Anna & Johnny

connormcc — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:13:07 +0000

Some photos from an engagement shoot with Anna & Johnny. We headed up to the North Coast, which provides endless fantastic locations for photography. These portraits are some of my favourite protrats I have taken. It was great fun spending some time with these guys and snapping some photographs for them.

See some more on Flickr.

William & Emma

connormcc — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:33:20 +0000

I meant to upload these photos ages ago, but it totally slipped my mind. William and Emma are getting married in August, and they asked me to shoot some photos for their wedding invitations, and also some engagement photos.

We went down to County Down, and spent some time getting photographs in Castlewellan, it’s a beautiful part of the world that I really want to photograph some more. Have a look at the rest of the photos on Flickr.

Fuel 2010

connormcc — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:47:16 +0000

A few weeks ago I was shooting the going on at Fuel 2010, in Ballymena. I’ave been so busy lately that I’ve only just got the photographs online this week.

Go check some more out at my website and my flickr

Apple iPad

connormcc — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:26:23 +0000

So I got sucked in by the whole iPad thing. Although I do think it will benefit my photography. When meeting clients, I can use the iPad to show them their finished work. When on a location shoot I can use the iPad both as a back up device and to give the clients an immediate preview of the photos, and I can use it as a digital portfolio to show my work to people. I have already had an opportunity to do this, and it gave my photography a more professional feel.

iPad

Other things I like and will use it for are reading e-books, and magazines, such as Wired, Time, and Digital Photographer magazine. So far I love the iPad, will post some more thoughts after I have used it more.

Hipstamatic

connormcc — Sat, 08 May 2010 14:05:34 +0000

You all know I love photography, and have a keen interest in particular in film photography. So when Steve put me on to the Hipstamatic app for the iPhone, I fell in love with it. The developers of the app say, ‘Digital Photography never looked so analogue’, and they are right. The app emulates film photography, with its muted tones, high contrast and vignettes.
The app comes with some lenses and film built in, and you can buy extra packs such as black and white film. I don’t always take my digital SLR or film camera’s out with me, so it’s nice to have an app that makes such good use of the iPhone camera, and turns it in to something pretty decent.

Hipstamatic photos will be probably be appearing more and more on the blog, and on my flickr stream.