Gearóid Ó Laoi, Garry Lee

It doesn't matter a whit. I don't use their stuff. I use Aperture, Corel etc.
People spend far too much time "processing" and not enough composing or just taking photos.
I wish them ill in their move!

Not a good photo for you.

Like Carsten, I live here. The colour can be amazing. It can also be frustrating as overcast skies are all too common and sunlight can be fleeting. Some of the best photos you will get here are in mist etc. While the Glens of Antrim are nice, in Co.Cork alone there are several places equally as good for photography. I think that the Burren shot is fab.

It probably does! I don't know why companies put huge long names on products.
Years ago Minolta had an ordinary camera with a name like
Minolta Maxxum Paxxum Fillya fulla lead son Zoom, or something.

I've read extensively about the Spanish Civil War. Both sides behaved very badly. Franco was a psychopath. So were many of the leaders on the other side. How otherwise could you explain the castration and crucifixion of priests, the throwing of prisoners into the Ronda Gorge and so on? On one side you had the Beast, Hitler supporting the Army, on the other the Beast Stalin.
That, unfortunately is how most civil wars are. We had a small civil war in Ireland after Independence and though only about 500 people were killed, it was not a shining example of fair fighting on either side.

I think he's more impressed than the clients will be. People just don't care about that kind of thing. They want facial expressions and a record of the event. Full stop. Nobody likes a SLOW photographer at a wedding.

Well, it's a 70-200. I used to have a 70-200 F4 non-IS and it was this good too, as is my 70-300 L at 200 and even my 70-300 Do at f8 but I must get rid of that.

What you really pay for though is that it is this good wide open, at least in the centre of the frame..

Is that Nice or Monte Carlo or some such place?

Monte Carlo loses a lot of its glamour when you realise it means Charlie's Mountain..

Lads and Lassies,

the Olympics is about competition, not photography. This is irrelevant nonsense!

I agree about the obsession with resolution and sharpness etc.
What most motivates me is the 5yr+ old photo. These are the great photos because they are there. An ordinary 20 year old photo of a neighbourhood, people, friends etc. is much much more interesting than lovely pictures of bowls of flowers.
I shoot a lot of ordinary stuff, stuff that will change or will be gone. People love my old stuff, but I don't do it for them. I do it for me!

I'm an amateur for nearly 40 years and I do weddings as presents for close friends or relatives only. I do not do it for money, though some of the people I do them for insist on giving me expensive presents. I do one or two a year. I think the bride's complaint is totally unreasonable. Wedding photography is difficult, very stressful and involves a LOT of post-processing, choosing photos etc. It's not a job I would ever choose to do and the equipment is very expensive. If I did it for money I don't think that 2000 euro would be expensive for what's involved.
Nowadays people expect everything for nothing. Nothing costs nothing.,

Superb photo. The background makes it!

Marvellous shot. I'm into running photography at the moment as my daughter is a top-class runner. There are fools who will complain that one or other of these runners are not "sharp"!

This is one of the best running photos I've seen

I can't understand how this photo won!
It's over-processed and worst of all, my eye does not accept the composition.
There are numerous better ones in the line-up.

That this at number 93, is a better photo than that which got first!