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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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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, 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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Just got back from lunch at Fruit Shop with Becca and there’s a letter addressed to Rebecca Billingslea. We both look at each other knowing this is probably from the Home Office as the only mail Becca receives here at the moment is Amazon packages. Becca rips it open and it reads “Investigation”, “Sham marriage”…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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: 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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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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It was the Festival of Fools this week and I had a blast capturing some delightful live performances. Here’s a bunch of shots I got of Hands Down Circus right smack in the middle of St. Anne’s Sq, Belfast.
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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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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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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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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…
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Finally more invites to give away. Is there anyone not on Dribbble? Do people still need invites? Why don’t they just open it up? I guess the invite only thing must be working for them. All. Interesting. Thoughts. But to the point in hand I have two invites that they have entrusted me with (I…
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Earlier this year I was involved in filming of a music video for Irish band IMLÉ. Filmed on Murlough Beach, Northern Ireland. If you’d like me to be the cute male lead on your bands music video, contact my agent.
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For the longest time I was annoyed by a small design bug when using the Jetpack plugin for WordPress. It really wasn’t much and probably speaks to my OCD more than anything but here it is… It’s probably too small to notice but the visual stats graph that’s displayed in the admin bar didn’t sit flush…
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Support Britten and his family GoFundMe On February 27, a friend of a friend, Britten Olinger, was in a terrible car accident. He was hit by an erratic driver in Black Mountain, NC. Britten is currently in ICU at Mission Hospital Trauma Center in Asheville, NC. I’ve only met Britten once or twice before but I…
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I never really messed with RSS feeds much, it hasn’t cropped up with sites I’ve made and I’ve never had a personal use for them. Who still uses them? Are they still relevant? What services are out there? Saying this lately I have felt an urge for some reading—specifically blog posts. So decided to create a…
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Lenticular animation is typically created using clever lenses and printing techniques, I wanted to recreate the effect on the web using the same principles. How it works Take an animation and split it into frames. The cat I used for example, this one works particularly well as it’s a silhouette and a pretty recognisable shape that happens to loop…
