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I'm not sure why I have this blog: it seems to me that people are more likely to look for my work in the gallery and albums.
Malachi O'Doherty
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What is a camera for?
- 6 years agoThis is the text of a talk I gave accompanying my exhibition of Irish Landscape at Culturlann Belfast in August 2015. Photography is a new medium to me. Normally I express myself verbally or in text. I have been doing that for decades, and I have acquired an ease in doing it, and I am surprised by the differences in how I emerge as a person in the different media, verbalising and image making. Verbalising brings my cynicism forward while there is no cynicism I think in the photograph…
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To crop or not to crop
- 23 Mar 2013 - 2 commentsIs it cheating to reframe your picture with a little creative cropping? I don't think so.
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The Summer Rain
- 09 Jun 2012 - 1 commentIn Ireland we value the sun more than the rain in summer because we need a respite from three other wet seasons and don't always get it. Yet the rain can do lovely things.
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At The Well
- 18 Apr 2012This is a public well in County Clare, just north of Fanore on the coast road.
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Lindsey Hilsum
- 06 Apr 2012I had a fascinating opportunity to interview the journalist Lindsey Hilsum before an audience in Belfast.
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Garden Path
- 19 Dec 2011 - 3 commentsThis is the view from my doorstep. I was trying out my new Leica x1.
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Grad filter - is it cheating?
- 26 Nov 2011 - 1 commentBack in the days of printing from film, it was common for a photographer to distribute the light unevenly, to accentuate detail on one part of a picture or another, or to enhance the exposure in darker areas. Now we can do this in a moment with grad filter software and it makes a huge difference - but it feels like cheating, perhaps just because it is so easy.
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Right Between The Eyes
- 20 Oct 2011They keep walking into this trap, lured by chocolate and peanut butter.
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Vandalised Bikes
- 30 Aug 2011I wonder why we see so many damaged bikes locked up. Is it that owners of vandalised bikes like to leave them in place to remind the rest of us that there are thugs out there? Or can it be that this poor bike was atacked just moments before I passed?
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