I took these last summer, when I was at the execrable Irish Jamboree 2008 (or Shamboree, as it’s known colloquially), and they somewhat cheered me up from the poorly-organized activities and torrential rain.

I accidently messed with the exposure settings on my camera somehow, and after pointing and shooting at the lamps in the car-park, this was the result.

I noticed this anti-lisbon poster sitting high on a lamp-post the other night (or more accurately, the other morning) as I walked home through Rathmines.

Is this a joke?

No really. Is this a joke?

Following on from my recent look at Mike Cammarano’s huge World Trade Center site aerial photograph, I discovered The Gigapxl Project which is, according to its website:

Defining the upper limits of large-format film photography, digital scanning and image processing, custom-built Gigapxl™ cameras capture images with unprecedented resolution.

It would take a video wall of 10,000 television screens or 600 prints from a professional digital SLR camera to capture as much information as that contained in a single Gigapxl™ exposure.

The Project’s near-term goal is to compile a coast-to-coast Portrait of America; photographing in exquisite detail the cities, parks and monuments of the USA and Canada.

A longer term goal is to create for future generations a world-wide archive of vanishing cultural and archaeological sites.

The image gallery contains some of the most mind-boggling detailed photographs I have ever seen. Take this example, a wide shot of New York’s Times Square.

We come from this:

to this:

to this:

Unnecessarily detailed photography seems to be turning into a bit of an obsession for me…

I’ve been trying out the new and improved Google image search which offers, among such fancy things as face and colour recognition, a ’search by size’ function.

I searched for the letter ‘c’, and one of the first results was this stunning aerial view of the World Trade Center site, hosted by Mike Cammarano, a Ph.D student at Stanford University’s Computer Graphics Laboratory.

Below I offer a 680×680 preview. The actual image is somewhat larger, weighing in at a hefty 9372×9372 pixels. This translates to a 14 megabyte download.

Click for a closer look

Be sure and zoom in as far as you can!

I’m a bit late with these, especially since they were taken right after my week in San Francisco. Nonetheless, here are some of the 633 photos I took this summer in the boroughs of New York City.

As I found out on my way home with a friend, it would seem that the recent defamation bill didn’t go down as well as expected. I think this picture rather elegantly sums up the state of Ireland in 2009.

After a brief hiatus, I bring a selection of photos from my recent trip to San Francisco.