Author: Aisling Keavey

Photographic artist, photo-book maker, curator. Based between Dublin and London.

Bye bye DA, hello Flickr

Photography, photoshoot

I’ve decided to leave DeviantArt on the back of this blog post

http://mikeshawphotography.deviantart.com/journal/?offset=5

I find that totally unethical and seeing as I don’t know HOW to turn off EXIF data on my photographs, DA are infringing my intellectual property rights… therefore bye bye DA, hello Flickr or Shadowness or Redbubble… haven’t decided yet.

Also, had a photoshoot of the Malahide GAA team for the Malahide Gazette the other day. Sent them in last night, hopefully they’ll use them.

Off for two weeks today, hopefully that’ll mean photos, I’m hoping. Bought a green filter for my camera the other day, tis awesome :D

I’m 20…ew

Photography

So the birthday festivities are over, for now at least. Going out again next weekend with people from college. The weekend was great apart from a certain ex… more on that later. We went into town on Saturday and had a Photo Scavenger Hunt (photograph as many things on the list as possible). Got a couple of lovely shots of the cherry blossom trees and the tulips in Stephan’s Green park. (Photos are on my DeviantArt page). That was great, got a lot of great candid shots. Then I had a house party. My lovely and thoughtful ex, Alan turned up with a book for me: “Thus Spake Zarathustra” by Nietzsche. I was so offended and angry, I spent the better part of the night (up til about 11:30) crying on my stairs. Then we decided to go outside and burn the book on the barbecue. I got a lot of really cool photographs out of that, so it wasn’t a complete loss. Yesterday I went to the cinema with my boyfriend and tried to calm myself down after Saturday night.

Photos are here:

http://cantricededelunge.deviantart.com/

Nonsense

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I want someone to hold me, hold me & never let go. I want them to hold me like nothing else matters, only me, only being with me, only being. How narcissistic does that sound? Nonsense. I’m being nonsensical again and I don’t know what I feel anymore. I woke up at one o clock today and I didn’t want to get up because sleep is where I escape from reality, my pain and my screwed-up brain. Maybe I just need to get over myself… or write, lots of writing, lots of nonsensical, beautiful writing, that’s true and that is indelible.

I need to be held

Held and never let go of

Ever.

Good news & bad news…

Photography, work experience

Bad night last night, my iPhone was stolen. That’s just great. I can’t contact anyone until I get a new phone. I was supposed to be photographing Tara & Conor today too and I’ve no way of contacting them… great. Just wonderful.

Good news though, I got an internship in Savas Studios for the summer. The place looks amazing. I’m so excited to start. Hopefully I’ll get more experience there then I did when I was with D-Light…

Boston baby! :D

Photographs from the studio

Photography, photoshoot

I hate when people who don’t know what they’re talking about criticise for something that is totally logical and RIGHT. I’m a photographer and watermarking images is what I’m going to have to do when I’m actually doing this as my full time job, people wondering why the image is watermarked and doing it in such a way that it’s deemed a critique amazes me… I just don’t understand it. Criticism of my work cannot be avoided (and with the aforementioned person, probably won’t) but I’d much prefer if that criticism was CONSTRUCTIVE rather than just CRITISING to CRITICISE… I don’t get it.

Rant aside… here’s photographs from the studio shoot the other day.

 

Going to organise a photo-shoot for Saturday, I have so many ideas I want to try out, but haven’t had the time to. So I’m excited! Going to revisit my photography portfolio photo-shoot as well, to see how I’ve improved. Busy busy busy… :D

Photo-shoot, photo-shoot, photo-shoot!

Photography, photoshoot

I just organised another photo-shoot with Sarah for during the week. I still have some ideas I didn’t get to try out with the last shoot for this one. Hopefully it’ll go the way I want it to. The photos will be up on here sometime soon afterwards. Hopefully Ian will oblige and be in photographs again, I have a few ideas that I need two models for and they’re both off for a week next week, which is when we were going to do it. The only thing is though, I’ll also need Ian’s airsoft rifle… so we’ll need to do the photographs indoors… I have some thinking to do… hmmm.