davymac | inspiration, in pixels, in print » General http://www.davymac.com/wordpress Blogging on creativity, business and freelancing Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:55:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 It’s not you Wordpress, it’s me… http://www.davymac.com/wordpress/2010/03/19/its-not-you-wordpress-its-me/ http://www.davymac.com/wordpress/2010/03/19/its-not-you-wordpress-its-me/#comments Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:53:22 +0000 davy http://www.davymac.com/wordpress/?p=214 I have moved my blog to a new location. All existing content has been imported from here and this blog will no longer be updated.
If you wish to follow me on the new blog please visit: http://blog.davymac.com

That’s where I will be writing from now on.

Thanks.

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I’ve long ago given up on making ‘New Year Resolutions’ but I share the optimism of Shane MacGowan’s lyrics at the start of each new year, it always feels like a special time, it always feels like a new start, full of potential. Of course when you can get into the mindset that it is possible to do better and generally improve your lot then you’re already off to a great start.

So a very happy New Year to all my blog readers, I hope you have a great 2008.

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I’ve seen a lunar eclipse some years ago and remembered how fascinating it was to observe, but I didn’t really have much time to study it back then, so on Saturday night I decided to do it right.

I dug out my heavy winter fleece, binoculars, SLR camera and tripod, mainly I wanted to just observe the eclipse but if there were any photographic possibilities then all the better. The shots I captured weren’t great, it would take considerable experience/equipment to take images like this, neither of which I had, but they were an interesting enough record of the event.

Checkout the little animation I made from the stills frames, unfortunately I didn’t have the endurance to stay out for the second half of the eclipse, that would have lasted until about 3am.

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The whole event was definitely much more spectacular than I was anticipating. Normally moonlight is so even and intense that the surface looks like a flat disc, but as more of the moon’s surface fell into shadow the binoculars revealed the moon as a sphere, appearing in stark 3D against the backdrop of stars. Another effect is that of the moon changing colour to a deep red in the shadows, with what looked like a ‘fill-light’ on the underside of the moon, due to the light refracted through our own atmosphere.

Anyone lucky enough to be observing from out in the sticks, away from the glare of the sodium streetlights, would have seen the surrounding stars blooming much more prominently as the moon’s light was totally eclipsed.

So no silver bullets with me on this full moon, but a little silver hip flask full of single malt was a welcome companion for the period I was out watching.

The next total lunar eclipse will be on 21st February 2008 – so almost a case of same time next year then.

Keep watching the skies…

]]> http://www.davymac.com/wordpress/2007/03/05/moonlighting/feed/ 2 Back on the air… er, wires http://www.davymac.com/wordpress/2007/01/27/back-on-the-air-er-wires/ http://www.davymac.com/wordpress/2007/01/27/back-on-the-air-er-wires/#comments Sat, 27 Jan 2007 22:59:47 +0000 davy http://www.davymac.com/wordpress/?p=120 This is my first post to this blog for quite a while now.

Design work has been pretty intense since just before Christmas, which is very good news for me, but bad for the blogging.

Work is still in the ascendant, I’m happy to say, but I intend to maintain my blogging on a more regular basis now (that won’t be difficult bearing in mind my recent track record!).

So, on with the show then.

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I intend to publish my opinions about design, graphics and generally anything of a visual or creative nature for those of you with an interest in this sort of thing, well that’s the plan anyway.
There will likely be a strong bias towards the commercial/industry aspects of the creative businesses as that’s what I do for a living and is an area in which I have extensive knowledge.
So if you are interested in my experienced, sagacious, yet down-to-earth viewpoint on design, advertising, web or any related creative field then drop in when you get the time – or add me to your RSS feeds.

Welcome.

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