A photographic series I've been working on for the last year.  It's still a work in progress.  Any constructive feedback is welcome.  

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A new book on street Photography written by is soon to be published.

It also features photos by myself and Ferhat Celik, Severin Koller, Mustafah Abdulaziz, Brian Webb, Charlotte Gonzalez, Danny Santos II, Felix Lupa, Claire Atkinson, Antonio Wijmark and Ronya Galka.   

You Can Pre Order the book on Amazon here.  [link]

Ok so I've been quite on the photographic front of late, both on the personal and professional, although the two are interlinked the lack of the later being responsible for the former.  I'll spare you the boring details.  
After leaving some rolls of film incarcerated in a fridge for close to a year here are some of the results that can be seen here.

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I'll scan more during the next few days.

I've just uploaded  some photos from London here [link]
Most of them were made last year, except the "I am Legend one" was from a roll I found behind some stale cheese in my fridge, from 2009 I think, only getting around to developing it now.

I've started a blog at tumblr, its called shit Seamus shoots.  [link]

It's a little experiment.  Rather than submit the usual people in desicive moment scenerios, all the photos will be people free.  But still trying to capture a sense of the absurd in the every day.  
I have a small archive of these types of photos and I never tried to show them to anyone before.  Rather then have the negs sitting gathering dust, I might as well find them home for viewing somewhere.

I've uploaded more images to my blog [link]

These are a selection that I've never uploaded before.  I have hundreds that never see the light of day , so I might as well put them to view rather than gather dust.  Although the last thing the internet needs, is more images.

Here are a selection of images I made over a weekend in Holland earlier this year.  [link]

Some previously unpublished images at my blog  [link] there's any you think I should upload here let me know.

I know the following open journal is about to give me much criticism and flak, but I feel the points I'm about to make are important and need to be said, surely I cannot be the lone dissenter.  
Yesterday the finalists and winners of the London Street photography festival had been announced online.  According to their website they received 1600 entries.

Jesse Marlow an excellent photographer was the overall winner.  He's also a member of the in-public collective.  One of the other finalists David Solomons is a member of the same group.  Two of the judges David Gibson, and Nick Turpin are both members of the same collective.  Sophie Howarth also a judge, prominently featured their work in the book street photography now.   

The winning portfolio images [link] have already been part of the same in-public.com gallery [link] for years.  Was this competion a way of promoting up and coming street photographers or just a way of promoting the in-public collective?  
At best this is an unconscious bias, at worst a conscious one. Giving the other finalists a disadvantage.  The other entrants did not have the advantage of the judges already being familiar with their work, and already being fans.

Now in most photographic competions when one of the judges recognise the images of one of their friends they step down from voting for that particular image, so not to bias the other judges in their favour, I know and have seen this happening in Judging at the IPPA (Irish Professional photographers association)and PPA (Photographers of America).  I wonder did such fair voting take place, as three of the judges were already familiar with the winners work.  If this took place excellent, but I would like to know if it did.  In many art competitions in Ireland often rules stipulate, Friends and family members of competition judges are forbidden from entering.  

Now speaking openly two of the finalists, I'm fans of their work and of coarse I would want them to win, so yes their is some bias on my part on how I feel the final results went.  

I'm considering writing an email to the judges who are members of in-public to know how fair this process was.
Your opinions are valuable to me, and I welcome any of your comments.  Or please email treamus@gmail.com

Hi, just uploaded a new series to my website, it's still a work in progress.  Let me know if you have any suggestions.

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Thanks again for any comments or faves.

Hey everyone thanks for all the faves and comments, sorry if I don't have time to reply to everyone, but the love is must apreciated,  

Thanks to bdwfh [link] for the Daily Deviation.

And Congrats To Scott (Obsidian-Fox) for the screen capture of the 40,000 page view, a print will be on its way to you.

Ok I see I'm about to hit the 40'000 page view mark.  For a mediocre photographer thats Ok I suppose.  

The first person to grab a screen shot of it, will get a print of their choice from either DA or my blog or website, posted to them.

Cheers and good luck.

Okay I just uploaded some new photos to my personal website here [link]

Any feedback would be appreciated.

Just some samples from a recent trip I did.  [link] any of the images you think should be submitted here let me know.

I've just uploaded a selection of images from Last September, all in all I was traveling about 20 days, and that is just from 1 day, so 19 left to sort through.  [link]

To be honest I have not made any street or documentary images since mid October till mid January.  I go through ups and downs of motivation.  Kind of hard when something you did when you were 15 (15 years ago) was an exclusive hobby, now is the hobby Du Jour rated number 2 in pastimes just after gardening.  
Any way should have some stuff from Vienna in a day or two.  If you see any images from the blog worth post here let me know.

Well if you want know how I got on recently in London, altogether it was great, besides the face I was searched and detained under section 44 for taking photos in public.  [link]
Thank god I'm back in Ireland.

At the moment I'm preparing to travel for three weeks around Eastern Europe.  I'll start in Austria (Wein), and from there on to Slovakia (Bratislava), Czech (Brno)(Olomouc), Poland, Krakow and Warsaw, and then Ukraine (L'viv).  

Well my travel plans could change depending on how things are on the ground.  
But if anyone wants to meet up for a pint or two drop me a line at shaymrt@yahoo.co.uk
Also if there are any cool spots along the way that I'm missing let me know.  Cheers.

I've just uploaded a blog post [link] of images that I'm undecided about as regards editing.  

Anyways the blog post is here [link] any feedback would be apreciated.

Also I'm going to London next week if anyone wants to meet up.

I was going through my notes, and I received two from an anonymous admin of this site, which informs me that some photos of mine are not street photography, the notes contain a link to the crap wikipedia section on street photography [link] and then tells me to research what street photography is before I submit to that category.  

The offending pictures are these [link] [link]
What gives the administration of Deviant art the right to go through my gallery to move pictures from sections they perfectly belong to, the only crime those pictures are guilty of is being cliched.  
Clearly done by someone who does not know their arse from their elbow, I can imagine the type someone with a fave gallery full of manga animal porn and HDR landscapes, deciding what is street photography?

Other than that I'm just dandy.
I hope you all had a Nice time over the last few days and have a good 2009.

First off thanks to Obsidian Fox [link] and also Estudio [link] for my fouth Daily deviation.  

I went on a trip to Northern Ireland, and went to the Apprentice boys march in Derry, where the night before the rally I went to a loyalist bonfire the photos are here [link]