Some cool upload photos images:
The Rotunda
Image by National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Uploaded a cropped version of this photo at 9.05 this morning, and delighted to say that MKSeery identified it very quickly as the back of the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin. However we needed some help on the date - and many arguments centred around the tennis courts.
Niall McAuley provided a gorgeous link to the OSI Historic 25" maps showing the gardens and tennis court that appear in this photograph.
FXRDublin gave 1888-1913 as the date for the OSI 25" historic map showing the tennis court, while see below for Niall McAuley's new "patent map dating algorithm" that narrowed the date (still tentatively) to 1907.
Date: Circa 1907?
NLI Ref.: L_CAB_02257
Thermal Spring Waterfall
Image by timsackton
Uploading the final batch of pictures from my vacation to the Azores in March 2011. You can see the whole collection, including a few bonus shots, here.
On our final day of vacation, we drove over the third major volcano on São Miguel. It is quite the experience: the mountain was completely fogged in, so for the drive up we had basically zero visibility going up the twisty mountain road. We stopped to admire the Lagoa do Fogo (picture in comments) as the fog was lifting, and then headed down the other side to the north coast of the island. On the way to the tea plantations on the north side of the island, we stopped at this hot spring / waterfall combination. It was quite striking how lush and green this particular patch of the island was, fed a by a warm mineral spring. The pool (and the waterfall) is a thermal spring and is supposed to be quite nice to swim in.
Taken Mar 8, 2011 in Ribeira Grande, Ilha de São Miguel, Portugal
¹⁄₄₀ sec at f/4.0, ISO100, no flash.
Lens: EF-S17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
No Hat: 2009-2010
Image by Julia L. Kay
Uploaded for the Portrait Party.
March 15th will be the third and final anniversary of my Daily Portrait Project, in which I've made a non-photographic self-portrait every day and posted it on the web. To celebrate I'm throwing a Portrait Party - instead of drawing myself I'm going to draw other artists.
If you'd like to be one of the artists I draw, please join this group & start a discussion thread with some photos of yourself: www.flickr.com/groups/portraitparty/ I hope to draw at least the first 30 artists to post photos.
It would be great if you also want to draw me and/or the other artists who have posted photos of themselves, but its not required. However, although I'm not actually starting on this project for another couple days many of the other artists have already gone gang-busters. It's a load of fun, so check it out!
Well, for three years I've taken pictures of myself to draw from on at least a weekly basis- so here's a few more for the party.
These were all taken with the video cam in my computer so the resolution isn't that great but they're pretty sharp. Some with my absolute favorite hat, and some with no hat.
