Something about absence and the heart’s fondness

2010.03.27

Or, My feet have become unbearably itchy…….

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A Symphony

2010.01.11

A duet from Brian Scott Peterson and Jim O’connell.
Performed live and without the aid of additional amplification.
Truely an aural delight ;-)

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If you are feeling sinister

2009.11.30

If you are feeling sinister
At the weekend I was assistant/2nd photographer to James O’Connell (there’s a good Irish name, padre) at a wedding.
It was in a beautiful university chapel here in Tokyo. During the ceremony, the priest only wanted one photographer in the room , so as not to disrupt proceedings too much, so I was left “back stage”………..

It’s not often you get to hang out back stage in a church and I knew that I wouldn’t be able (for obvious reasons) be able to publish any of the other photographs I took that day, so I took the oportunity to take a few of the shadowy world  behind the scenes. Read more…

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Jim and all that jazz – 5D mkII video editing

2009.08.18

I haven’t really been using the video function on my 5D, I’m not a videographer and I already have ridiculous amounts of hard drives filled with photo files, last thing I need is to start getting into HD video with all the huge files and possible new video cards mess that will get me into.
However, recently I was browsing my recent pictures folder and discovered I had 2 videos that would work together rather well.

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Jim O’Connell in the New York Times

2009.07.07
The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia

My good friend Mr Jim O’Connell’s photo was on the front page of the New York Times web edition yesterday. There is much more to come I’m told.
He’s already blogged about it here so I am just posting this to say congratulations old chap and look forward to seeing more.

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