Photo Of The Day - Mount Stewart (During The Summer)

I said in a previous post about Mount Stewart that I needed to get some better pictures of the place during the summer. Well, summer has come early here in Northern Ireland - Mid May! (Even if it is only temporary)...

Here is my New Mount Stewart Page :-






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I Wish I Was A Talented Artist And Not Just A Part Time Photographer...

It is always nice when someone contacts me and says they like my photos, and want to use them for some (non profit) use.

Here is one such email from Annelies Masselink:-

"I was wondering if I could use these wonderful photo's on this site for artistic purpose.
and if I could upload what i've drawn/painted using your photo's as reference? ofcourse I will give credits to this site :)
please let me know and Thanks in advance!"

I was really impressed with her art - so I asked her for more information on how she did it..

"this is kinda hard to answer or say what I did excactly but I could give it a try :)

First of I printed the photo out so I didn't needed to switch back and forth from my screen. Since I drew it in a live paintchat after all. Then I just used some big brushes and started with the background. Then I used 1 or 2 base colors, and made the shape of the animal. After that I took a darker color and made the shadows and used the colors inbetween the darker and the base to create a smudge. To make it look like it was in the background I used some of the color from it and went slightly over the edge from the animal then used a color picker to pic the color that was mixed between the colors to get a real feel of the background mixing with the caracter/animal . to go in details I used a more smaller and harder brushes."

I am not sure I understand this 100% - but I get the general idea!

Anyway, here are her fantastic interpretations of some of my photos:-

http://artgrounds.com/53209/
http://artgrounds.com/52055/
http://artgrounds.com/52054/
http://artgrounds.com/51921/

An Adsense Alternative?

I read somewhere (sorry - I can't remember the link) that a good alternative to Adsense was Clicksor. I tried it on one of my pages that did not perform too well with Adsense, but I HATED it. It took control of my page and added advert hyperlinks to headers, and redirected my page to an advertiser at one point without me even clicking on anything!

So - it gets the big thumbs down from me!


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Photo Of The Day - Irish Moonlight

Taken from my Moonlight page:-

Infra Red Photography Tutorial

http://www.trustedreviews.com/digital-cameras/review/2008/05/11/Digital-Photography-Tutorial-Infrared/p1

Are You An Obsessive Adsense Earnings Checker?

This handy addon for Firefox will save you a lot of time:-


Adsense Notifier






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Photo Of The Day - Mourne Mountains

Taken from my Mourne Mountains page:-

Photo Of The Day - Wind Turbines

Taken from my Wind Turbines page:-

Photo Of The Day - Lough Cowey.

Taken from my Lough Cowey page:-



For those of you not familiar with naming conventions in Ireland, 'Lough' essentially means 'Lake'....

Photo Of The Day - River Roe, Limavady

Taken from my River Roe page:-



If you click through to my main web site and look at the larger version of the above image - you can clearly see a lot of purple fringing where my old Nikon Coolpix compact was struggling with the contrast between light and dark areas...

Again, this is another part of Northern Ireland I must get back too soon to get some better photos..