6 days in Ireland
· Sunday May 25, 2008
Another long break in posting… I sometimes think I must have the most infrequently updated blog out there :-) But this year is my last in the UK, the last of my PhD, and there just has not been much time for photography. Alas. The exception is when I go walking… or on a holiday =)
For some months now, my friend Elizabeth and I have been planning a trip to Ireland. She and I were close friends at Swarthmore, but like many of my college buddies who remained stateside, I just haven’t had the opportunity to stay in very close touch. We mutually chose Ireland because it was on both of our lists of places to see, and also to some degree for the convenience and safety of travelling to an English-speaking country. Last week our plans came to fruition!
The following posts will be less oriented towards photography than usual, if only because I want to describe the experiences that we had on the road. However, I will try to include photographic commentary where appropriate! I took very little on my trip in terms of kit:
- Canon 350D (of course)
- Sigma 17-70mm lens
- Canon 50mm f/1.8
- Canon 55-250mm IS
- mini-tripod, CF cards (4 gb total) and usb card reader, circular polarizers, backup battery & charger
- Eee PC 4G and a Transcend 160gb usb drive
The Eee really excelled on this trip. My primary motivation for bringing it along was to have a way to download pictures from my camera to the usb drive, which was handy. But given that wireless is so widely available these days, we made use of it almost every night at our hostels.
On a side note, if anyone out there knows a good program to preview RAW images (just view, not develop) on the Eee or in Linux in general, I’d be very glad to hear from you! I’ve installed dcraw, gnome-raw-thumbnailer and Nautilus, which lets me preview the images in low-res in Nautilus, but I can’t figure out how to force it to generate larger-res previews, short of opening the files in GIMP/UFRaw :-/
In any case, I’ll be posting entries that correspond to different portions of our trip in the coming days. Here was our rough itinerary:
Saturday: arrive in Dublin
Sunday: depart Dublin, arrive Killarney
Monday: Ring of Kerry / Ring of Skellig / Killarney
Tuesday: depart Killarney, arrive outside Galway
Wednesday: Galway city
Thursday: Connemara National Park, return to Dublin
If you have any questions about the trip, just shout!
— Emery Ku
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