In playing around and learning how to use the new negative scanner I got my Dad for Christmas, I scanned this old shot I took of crashing waves in Clare. As you can see the image on the bottom is quite speckled with dust and scratches, and also streaked from what I imagine are water streaks when the negative dried.

The whole process of carefully removing all the scratches, dust specks and streaks, was strangely therapeutic!

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Tonight was my camera club’s (Offshoot) meet up night, and we did some macro shooting! Below are some of the shots of the night

My favourite is the first one… (click on picture to see larger version)

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This is a shot I took years ago with an old Pentax Asashi, back in the day I did a little processing under the tutelage of the old man.

I just bought Dad a new scanner, so more will come

(click to see larger version)

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randomness rocks…

while browsing photosites and following links from one blog to the next, I came across this shot here on “Les Particules Etranges”

- which happens to be taken at the place I took the picture below last December!

most excellent!

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The Telegraph has a an amazing series of shots on snowflakes (http://tinyurl.com/9f7vvj)!

The structures are truly wonderful.

Small quick test

photo’s added by flickr manager

it took a while, but clearing up one too many updates to a well mish mashed wordpress entry finally pushed me to re-install it completely…

hope it all works as it should now  :\