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This site is a work in progress
This site is a work in progress so if things are broken/unfinished/messy you know why. I’m building my site on the WordPress full site editor and it’s a ton of fun. I’ll do a write up on how I made everything once it’s finished. Until recently everything was hidden behind a coming soon page but…
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A Review of 2022
I’m sat in bed in Colorado where I’ve spent the last few weeks of the year. With my new Wife, Becca and her family. Looking back on one of the biggest years of my life, I feel proud of what I’ve achieved and positive of the year ahead. At the beginning of the year I…
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Garden of the Gods
This is Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs. Red rock everywhere. Almost wrecked the drone after 5mins flying. I really haven’t gotten the hang of it just yet. But what a playground to practice in ey?
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A Lonely Cow
This place is wild as it is beautiful. Within an hour temperatures drop 20 degrees and winds chase you home. If you live here, you live WITH the mountains.
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Clouding my photos
Clouds coving the mountains so here’s another from yesterday. Hopefully get some decent shots if the clouds lift.
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Hot springs near Springs
Spent the day in hot springs pouring out of these mountains. Now I’m all wrinkled and fed it’s time for an epic nap.
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Made it to Colorado
I finally made it to Colorado, exactly 24hrs after I was due to arrive. So glad to be reunited with Becca and enjoy a good nights sleep. The air is crisp, chilly and the mountains are dusted with snow. Delightful.
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Photography For Beginners: Join us for the Winter Term at the Crescent
Tonight is the last photography class of the year @crescentartscentre. Just in time to let you know I’ll be teaching again next term and we’re introducing 2 new course to the mix. Photography For Beginners — 5 week course for those wanting to learn their camera and get full use out of it. Digital Photography for…
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I passed my driving test
The test is done the results are in. I passed! But it was a wild ride. Me and my instructor had a two hour lesson planned before my test and all was going swimmingly… until the car broke down. We stopped off at a garage for a pasty, obviously. The car failed to start as…
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It’s test week
It’s test week, my driving test that is. I started learning in July, I’ve had around 10-15 lessons and my test is this Thursday coming up. I’m fairly confident in my driving but super anxious as 1 silly mistake could cost me the test. I’ve really enjoyed learning to drive and looking forward to being…
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Wall walk by Ashton
One of the highlights of the year was seeing @ashton.fenix flying past the windows of our studios. The Vault Festival this summer was class and the building was literally the stage of our finale festival. We’ll sadly be moving soon. Where to? We don’t yet know but wherever it’ll be, we’ll definitely be making our mark.
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Open Botanic
Is this what happens if you pedestrianise streets? If so, let’s close off the whole city!! This was Open Botanic this afternoon. A typically busy Botanic Ave was closed off to cars in favour of live performance, music, circus, games, workshops. Super refreshing seeing it packed with people and zero cars.
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Smoky portrait during Photography for Beginners
Another fun nighttime photography session with Photography for Beginners at @crescentartscentre. One of the highlights was this shot of @olliefarr01 who was very gracious and allowed us to take a few fun portraits.
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Life is wild atm
Life is wild at the moment. Never been pulled in so many directions. Must of it is amazing, fulfilling and fun but some of it is daunting, traumatic and terrifying. “You’ve got this buddy!”
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Night photography with Photography for beginners
With the early nights rolling in we took to the street during tonight’s Photography for Beginners class at @crescentartscentre. It was chilly but plenty of things so shoot. Artificial light is super fun to play with. We’ve just confirmed the winter term starting in January. Will keep you posted on when the class is available.
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Becca’s Birthday
There’s no where like Ireland. Storms all the way up north then a break to let in the heat of the sun. Happiest of birthdays to @bbill10. It’s so fun doing life together and going off on mini adventures. Epic waves at Ballintoy Harbour this morning. This place always reminds me of Breath of the…
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Radio spot promoting Photography For Beginners
I was on the Frank Mitchell Show on U105 radio this week talking about my Photography For Beginners course. Why do speech pattens evade you a soon as they go “you’re LIVE”? Forgot to even mention the link to book your spot so I’ll do that here. Courses at Crescent Arts Centre.
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Join us for the Autumn Term at Crescent Arts Centre
Earlier this year I taught Photography for Beginners for the very first time. I honestly had a great time and I got some great feedback from the folks that signed up. This term I’m back and the course goes from 6 to 12 weeks. The stuff we could learn in 12 weeks is mind blowing…
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Filming in Shawbrook
I headed down to Shawbrook this week to shoot a film with Michael McEvoy, a dancer based in Northern Ireland. Shawbrook is a truly unique place where we had access to dance studios, wooden buildings, forests, lakes and even an outdoor theatre. We were filming throughout the night and we didn’t have to worry about…
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Shawbrook Residency
I’m heading to Shawbrook tonight with Michael McEvoy. We have three days to create a dance film. We’ve packed up the car with a ton of lighting gear and cameras. Can’t wait.
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I’m Getting older
I’m getting old. I recently turned 36 and a matter of weeks later I my knee decides to stop working. What did I do to upset you knee? I’ve had to cancel some teaching work and I’m currently hobbling around the house working on web stuff. It could be worse but injuries send me into…
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Works of Unparalleled Genius
Tonight I’ll be attending Works of Unparalleled Genius by Ken Fanning. A collection of Circus film he and other folk (including me) have made over the years. The night will premiere two new films. Come down to the Vault Artist Studios it’s BYOB and I’m told the more you drink, the better films.
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Driving lesson #3
Driving Lesson #3: Sometimes you need to use things wrong in order how to use them right. I had my first scary moment driving and I’m making note of it here in a dear diary moment. I’m learning in a diesel engine and they are very forgiving, maybe to a fault for learners. I own…
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The Dangerous Harpist
I took some promo shots for Ursula Burns in the Vault Artist Studios Car park for her upcoming run at the Edinburgh Fringe. Her show The Trucking Harpist runs from 7th-16th August at Whistlebinkies Live Music Bar.
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WordPress Profile Badges
I checked out my profile on WordPress.org only to find a fancy yellow organisers badge… I’m lying this was the only reason I signed up to help organise WordCamp Belfast and it was all worth it for my new shiny badge. Grab yours by helping to organise at a WordCamp near you!
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Happy 15th Birthday WordPress
It’s amazing to think WordPress is 15 years old and in terms of the internet that’s a long time. We celebrated in style at the only WordCamp on the planet to fall on the 15 anniversary of the launch of the very first release.
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Closing tinktank.in
Update: Jan 4, 2017: I’m currently in the process of uploading all the theme to Github. It’s taking a little time to add documentation but eventually they’ll be available at https://github.com/neilorangepeel/. Feel free to contribute. Back to original post. Aw it’s time to say goodbye to tinktank.in ? I opened up Tink Tank way back in…
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Deploying private repos
Ugh I’ve done this before last year sometime. But for some reason couldn’t even begin to understand the concept of what I was doing nevermind actually doing it. So this is mainly for me in the future when I need to set up a SSH key between my server and GitHub. This video helped me…
