Gallery MacIomhair

Book

noreply@blogger.com (Morris) — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:41:00 +0000

Thirty Eight, originally uploaded by MαcIomhαir.

Eleven

noreply@blogger.com (Morris) — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:25:00 +0000

Eleven, originally uploaded by MαcIomhαir.

Hot and Cold

noreply@blogger.com (Morris) — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:13:00 +0000

Frozen Chili, originally uploaded by MαcIomhαir.

Blue Apple

noreply@blogger.com (Morris) — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:33:00 +0000

Blue Apple, originally uploaded by MαcIomhαir.

The Cat Sat on the Mat

noreply@blogger.com (Morris) — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 11:33:00 +0000

The Cat Sat on the Mat, originally uploaded by MαcIomhαir.

Green Ice

noreply@blogger.com (Morris) — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 16:51:00 +0000

Green Ice, originally uploaded by MαcIomhαir.

Calanais II

noreply@blogger.com (Morris) — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:37:00 +0000

Calanais II, originally uploaded by MαcIomhαir.

Autumn

noreply@blogger.com (Morris) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:22:00 +0000

Autumn, originally uploaded by MαcIomhαir.

Grasshopper

noreply@blogger.com (Morris) — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:50:00 +0000

Grasshopper, originally uploaded by Maciomhair.

Stornoway Coastguard Rescue Helicopter (10)

noreply@blogger.com (Morris) — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:32:00 +0000

Stornoway Coastguard Rescue Helicopter (10), originally uploaded by Maciomhair.

King of All He Surveys

noreply@blogger.com (Morris) — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:33:00 +0000

Summer Trip to Jersey July 2009 - West Coast of Jersey - (34), originally uploaded by Maciomhair.

Beach Hillock

noreply@blogger.com (Morris) — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:01:00 +0000

Beach Hillock, originally uploaded by Maciomhair.

Barbed Wire Cattle

noreply@blogger.com (Morris) — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:58:00 +0000

Barbed Wire Cattle, originally uploaded by Maciomhair.

StumbleUpon and Photography

noreply@blogger.com (Morris) — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:50:00 +0000

Photography is a verymuch abused category within Stumble. Any old image from a snapshot to a scribble done in MS Paint gets lumped into this category by lazy categorisers. Stumble is one of my favourite webtools, but I am going to have to abandon it due to how poorly it deals with my main interest - photography.

See below ten examples of why Stumble needs new, deeper photography categories so that the junk can be filtered apart and those who want to investigate photography in more depth could look up categories such as history of photography, artistic photography, photographic techniques etc. In the meantime, we have to put up with the below. All ten of these were picked one after the other stumbling through the Photo category.

1) Titleless Image

What this has to do with photography is anyone's guess. It may be a photograph, but it looks much more likely that it is a photocopy. I am sure you will agree, Henri Cartier Bresson would be very jealous of such an image.

2) Direct link to a photo - No page, no title, no photographer info.

This one is a rather good image, but how would we look further into this? Where to go to get more from the artist? What's the story behind it?

3) Direct link to a photo - Similar to number 2 in its problems, but with this one, you can fiddle the URL to find a bit further back - but you shouldn't really have to.

4) Direct link to a photo - Again, a direct link to a photo, but fiddling the URL does take you somewhere this time. Again, you shouldn't have to.

5) ZerFunny

Fair enough, a proper link at last. However, this is a website that is supposed to be about funny things and which uses images - as do most websites - to illustrate this. It has, however, been dumped in the Stumble photo category as the original stumbler couldn't think of anything better.

Plus, the page has direct links to NSFW material.

6) The Top The Best

An actual photoblog! Wonders will never cease. This would benefit from a photoblog category on Stumble.

7) Direct link to a photo - Yet again, no way to go any further. Not that you would want to, it's a photo of writing - a motivational message. Surely there's a better category for this? At least, however, this is a photo. There have been a lot of these cropping up lately which are just screenprints of text on a black background.

8) Total Mania

At least this seems to be some sort of photo collection. But I doubt whether serious photography was the intention of the website (not talking about the actual photographs).

9) Link to a Google Search!

Surely they could have gone to the trouble of clicking the little "x" for "Remove this frame"? And if only the first article is about photography, why not click that one further click to stumble the right page?

10) Direct Link to Photo

Shouldn't this be filed under cute animals rather than under photography?

It is clear that Stumble does not work for photography as there are many, many people who think that any picture is by its nature photography and not something else.

Frog Eye

noreply@blogger.com (Morris) — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:32:00 +0000

Frog Eye, originally uploaded by Maciomhair.

Busy

noreply@blogger.com (Morris) — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:22:00 +0000

Busy, originally uploaded by Maciomhair.

Balgownie Duck

noreply@blogger.com (Morris) — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:53:00 +0000

Balgownie Duck, originally uploaded by Maciomhair.

Inevitability

noreply@blogger.com (Morris) — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:37:00 +0000

Inevitability, originally uploaded by MacIomhair.

OOB Roses

noreply@blogger.com (Morris) — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:16:00 +0000

OOB Roses, originally uploaded by MacIomhair.

Beach Feather

noreply@blogger.com (Morris) — Sun, 31 May 2009 11:07:00 +0000

Beach Feather, originally uploaded by MacIomhair.

Daniel

noreply@blogger.com (Morris) — Sat, 23 May 2009 17:19:00 +0000

Daniel, originally uploaded by MacIomhair.

Cold Rose

noreply@blogger.com (Morris) — Thu, 14 May 2009 21:31:00 +0000

Cold Rose, originally uploaded by MacIomhair.

Test Still Life

noreply@blogger.com (Morris) — Sat, 09 May 2009 20:17:00 +0000

Test Still Life, originally uploaded by MacIomhair.

In and Around Bobrka (202)

noreply@blogger.com (Morris) — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:26:00 +0000

In and Around Bobrka (202), originally uploaded by MacIomhair.

Long Grass Sunset No Flash

noreply@blogger.com (Morris) — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:47:00 +0000

Long Grass Sunset No Flash, originally uploaded by MacIomhair.