On February 24th of 2008, I started a project on Flickr called the 365 Days project .  Well, 366 days later (2008 was a leap year), I completed the challenge I had set myself.  I had taken 366 photos somehow featuring myself and uploaded them for all to see.  And most likely laugh at....

Project Complete: 366 Photos in 366 Days →

Late last year I got a FlickrMail from the people at schmap.com asking for permission to use a photo I took of the Rogers Centre in Toronto as part of their Schmap Toronto Guide.  Of course I readily gave permission, it was fantastic to have been picked! You can see the schmap.com guide by clicking...

My Photo Used By schmap.com →

Last week, through a friends blog, I stumbled across a Flickr group called 365 Days . Since writing a novel for National Novel Writing Month last November, I have been looking for something new and creative to challenge me. I don't feel that I have been spending enough time with my camera of late, so...

A Year Of Self-Portraits →

When I first started putting photographs online, I spent ages looking for an album creation tool that would give me some control but would automate a lot of the creation. I eventually settled on JAlbum - a nice tool written in Java that has many downloadable skins to choose from. You can see an album...

AutoViewer and SimpleViewer Photo Viewers. →

A while ago, I signed up to take part in the beta of riya.com; I had forgotten about it until last week when I got an invite mail to try out the service. In a nutshell, riya.com is a facial recognition service for uploaded photos. It allows you to submit your photos to a website, and it will then start...

Riya.com - People Recognition In Photos →

Ever taken what you thought was that perfect “family photo” only to develop it (or download it to your computer) to find Granny is grimacing, Uncle Joe looks like he has indigestion, baby Alice is looking the other way, your sister looks asleep or your mum looks wild eyed on some hallucinogenic...

Microsoft Research releases "Group Shot" →

My colleague Matt sent round a link the other day to a Stanford paper on Light Field Photography. These geniuses have built a plenoptic hand held camera that takes a 4D light field picture in a single exposure. It is all very technical, but it essentially means you can re-focus a single picture to different...

Light Field Photography →

I am happy to be returning to Ireland for a week in August to visit my friends Simon and Esther. They live just outside Clonakilty which is in County Cork. Ireland is a very beautiful and peaceful place, and I am looking forward to a week of relaxing with friends, running along the beach in the morning...

Betty Brosnan's →

A couple of weeks ago I posted about Microsoft's announcement of RAW support in Windows. They have now released the RAW Software for Windows XP - you can grab a copy here . There is also a Whitepaper: Viewing and Organizing RAW Images in Windows XP . Nice....

Microsoft RAW Image Thumbnailer and Viewer for Windows XP Released →

Microsoft is going to be adding RAW support to Windows in a few different ways. This is very cool for those of us that have Digital SLRs that support the RAW format. They are adding RAW support into Longhorn, which is a great move IMHO. However, this is not greatly exciting "now". Better news is that...

Microsoft Adds RAW Support to Windows →