Prague - One Year On

It is almost a year since I celebrated my 30th birthday in Prague with good friends so thought doing something with the pictures was well overdue. I asked everyone to give me a copy of their pictures so I could compile them all and give everyone a copy of all the best ones. I ended up with over 1000 so it has been a bit of a task to sort through them, order and rename.

Hopefully I will have that done soon and will be able to give everyone a copy but in the meantime here is a bit of a photo montage from the weekend. This video is made up of approximately 750 photos which are roughly in the correct order of events.

Flickr Revisited

Have been neglecting flickr over the past months and realised that I hadn't uploaded anything since August last year! Thought I'd revisit the site and start by uploading some of my more more recent pictures then when I get round to it, go through my stream and delete any dead wood.

Here are the newest 4 that I've uploaded so far...


     

     

Urban Art?

Took this picture on a recent trip to Prague. It was on of the most graffitied European cities that I've visited but most of what I saw was mainly just tagging which some may see as art but I'm still undecided.

New Mobile

My mobile contract was up for renewal just before Christmas and I had the usual dilemma of which new handset to go for.

I did the usual research reading online reviews etc and narrowed it down to a few models in the Nokia N Series or the new offering from LG...the Viewty. I was very drawn to the large touch screen and the camera on the Viewty so opted for that sacrificing the very handy built in Wi-Fi that the handsets that I was looking at in the Nokia N Series offered.

The phone itself and the touchscreen are pretty good although not as user friendly as the Sony Ericsson's that I've been used to.

After a few months I've still got mixed feelings about the camera. It takes pretty good photos on bright days but I'm not that impressed with the low light indoor shots (one of the selling points for the Viewty). The Xenon flash helps but with only the Auto, Red Eye or Off option it doesn't allow you to use it on every photo if required.

Benefits of the camera are Auto Focus, up to ISO 800, Image Stabiliser & 120fps video plus a lot of the functions that you would find on a compact digital camera.

Downsides are the lack of a lens protector / guard, flash settings in low level (mainly indoor) lighting and that you can't switch off the shutter sound even which sounds even when the phone is on silent.



Here are a couple of the better low light shots that I've taken with the Viewty...




Some of the pictures on previous posts have been taken using this this camera phone which you can view Here.