About
My name is Ed O’Keeffe, and I would like to thank you for taking an interest in my photography website. From the age of 5 I have been taking photographs. My dad brought me a camera and tripod for my 5th birthday. A story goes that in the summer of 1992 I was taking pictures in Cork, Ireland and set up my camera and tripod in the middle street to take a photograph. Evidently the traffic stopped to watch this little boy take a picture. By the age of 8, my dad had taught me a lot about photography, he even showed me how to process and develop my own films and print wet prints in the darkroom.
Through my teenage years I witnessed the digital revolution, first with computers coming into the home and then digital photography coming to the main stream. I fully embraced the computer and what my dad had taught me about photography, I taught him about using computers and Adobe Photoshop. We started with Photoshop 5 and a Canon film scanner. After a couple of years of this, we managed to buy a second hand Nikon compact digital.
The majority of the photographs on this site were taken with either a Canon Powershot S60 or a Nikon D80. Mostly from around 2004 onwards.
I am now 22 years old, living in the city centre of Manchester in a student flat. Studying Design and Art Direction (final year) at Manchester Metropolitan University. A translation of the degree would be graphic design with advertising. Photography is a huge passion in my life and although just a hobby, I hope that this website will go some way in helping me make that transition from hobbiest to professional at some point when I have finished my BA.
History of the Website
My uncle Michael taught my based HTML coding over the Christmas of 2000 and I started making personal websites soon after, mainly on free web hosts etc. I developed a new website called “eddx” over the summer of 2003 and purchased the eddx domain using my school friends new hosting business. eddx.com started as a personal site and quickly developed into a place for me to publish my creativity, first my artwork from GCSEs and A-levels, then Graphic Design work from my BTEC and my photography. It soon became a web log or blog.
Sadly, in 2006 due to my hosting company being sold to a larger business and my own misunderstandings, I lost the eddx.com domain and now can’t afford to buy it back of the company who brought it (even though they don’t seem to use it). Anyway, I then purchased a number of number domains from GoDaddy.com; edwud.com and edsphotoblog.com and republished my blog content on this current site in the winter of 2006. Hosted on DreamHost.com it has been much more reliable as a host for my work.
The Future / Dreams
As you can see, my passion in life is photography. My aim to run this site and publish its current daily content for as many years to come as I can foresee. Ultimately I wish to have more time to publish more photographic tips and tricks, probably in video format. As well as travel more. Ideally, I would be a freelance photographer, spending time taking a range of photos for clients, traveling the world and teaching seminars on all aspects of photography.
Other random facts
* I have been to London, Paris, Manchester and New York in a weekend.
* My mother died when I was 18 months old.
* I swam in Lough Mask – Ireland
* I don’t have any brothers or sisters.
* I don’t have any tattoos or piercing.
* I have taken over 18,000 digital photos between March 2005 and September 2006 on one camera.
* I once worked on at a TV station on a drama program.
* I got rejected from a job at an Apple Store.
* I am happily involved with Kay
* I have been to New York twice.
* One of my goals is 1,000,000 miles (40 times around the globe).
* I went to drama school almost every Saturday for 13 years.
* My name means cool, calm and together, Edward has a sensible head on his shoulders and is unflappable. A good friend who is loyal (a key ring said it so it must be true?).
* The O’Keeffe family motto is “To the brave and faithful man nothing is difficult”.
* I visited Lego Land in Denmark.
Anything else?
I dislike taking about myself, but recently a number of visitors have requested more information. If there is anything that you will like to ask about myself or my website, it would be a pleasure to answer any questions or queries that you might have. Please contact me or leave a comment in the form below…
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Really nice site and photos Ed. Really great about page too. I was looking to see what gear/kit you use and decided to try the about link. You may want to add another link so people know your gear list is here also.
Saw your comment on problogger. I will be launching a blog on photography soon. will keep you up to date on that mate.
Btw, I’m from the U.S.
Comment by Richard — 28 January, 2008 #
Hi Ed really impressed with the site and the photos. Remember the New York trip with good memories but don’t remember the elephants in nappies!! Keep on snapping and get in touch. Barry (Ed’s ex tutor)
Comment by Barry — 1 February, 2008 #
how in the world are you 21 and been to all those places….how do you have the money! Your pictures are amazing my favorite are the sunsets.
Comment by Ashley Helliwell — 6 March, 2008 #
Hi, Ed – I love your photo of the glass chess set. I found it by searching for “chess” on Google images.
I would like to use it illustrate my library’s chess club event on Facebook. Would that be okay with you?
Either way…very cool photos!
Hope
(librarian in Carmel, Indiana USA)
Comment by Hope — 8 March, 2008 #
I live in the town of Stockport, New York – about 140 miles north of NYC and 28 miles south of Albany. The largest ‘city’ nearby is Hudson with a population of 8,000!!
I have some great photos of sunsets in Stockport, NY which I think you might enjoy.
Also, the Stockport Creek where we fish at this time of year for striped bass who migrate up from the Atlantic ocean to spawn and we capture them and eat them!!!
Great site. Let me know if you want me to forward the pics.
jqh
Comment by Joan Q. Horgan — 30 April, 2008 #
Hallo Ed, your pictures are great, I was looking for Liverpool and now I’m here, greetings,
groeten uit Tilburg, Nederland
Comment by Lena Janbroers — 5 August, 2008 #
good job Ed, i think it is beautiful and you are doing a good profesional job.
Regards
Manuel from Dominican Republic
Comment by Manuel Mancebo — 14 September, 2008 #
Hey Ed, I love the creativity in all your photographs.. Cool work.
Comment by Ann — 19 September, 2008 #
Great website, I’m a photography enthusiast and hope to one day take as wide a portfolio of pictures as you have one day. Great work.
Comment by Chima Ijeoma — 3 November, 2008 #
Ed im an Art student and im really inspired by your work. I want to be a phtographer, but hopefully more into the fashion genre.
Your photos are amazing and i cant wait to see your next photographic work
Comment by Charlotte Heath — 9 November, 2008 #
Hi Ed,
I’m an ophthalmologist. All I can say that you are amazing photographer, so keep your head in the clouds.
Kind regards,
Lattakia, SYRIAN ARAB RP
Comment by samu — 22 December, 2008 #
very nice portfolio and set of cameras.
Comment by kimdis — 4 March, 2009 #
I second that. Keep it up Ed!
Comment by slide scanner — 21 March, 2009 #
nice website and nice photos
regards ED
Comment by Freelance web designer — 27 April, 2009 #
Hi Ed,
I enjoyed browsing thru ur photographs especially the black & white photos. Keep up the good work
Katherine
from Malaysia
Comment by Katherine T. — 6 June, 2009 #
Ed' I got to this web site by mistake now I will called (a wonderful mistake) Read about you and see your job witch is excellent, After couple visits to your web site I think now was the moment to post a note for you.
Comment by Mayte Moguel — 17 June, 2009 #
Amazing photograhps, I third this. keep it up man …
Comment by maclaren techno stroller — 7 July, 2009 #
Hi Ed,
really very beatiful pics! I love your pics of flowers!
I am Olga from Russia, but I am living in Germany
Have a nice day!
Comment by Olga — 16 July, 2009 #
4th that – lol ?
great pics dude … keep the good work up
Comment by CristianR — 13 August, 2009 #
hello, I will have to repeat all other people here but your photos are really great
Comment by john — 3 September, 2009 #
it sound like a great compliment
Comment by schwinn trikes — 3 September, 2009 #
would love to buy your wellington with cone picture best I have seen
Comment by Eleanor Young — 23 November, 2009 #
I am interested in a photo you took and a description, as it is so very interesting to me. If you could write back to me, I would appreciate it. In searching you various other pictures, I was so very fascinated at the range. Beautiful and Unique at the same time. The particular one was a huge circular boulder which looked like metal sitting in a field. Thank You.
Comment by kristen85 — 14 February, 2010 #
Hi Ed
Have just found your site and have been browsing your photographs of Manchester my beloved home town
I'd like to congratulate you on the depth and quality of your work… It's really excellent !
At the same time I'd like to bring to your attention the amazing work of a lady called Shirley Baker, she took a huge amount of photos in the Manchester and Salford area in the 60s and 70s, I have a couple of books detailing her work but the best place to view it on the web is as follows… http://www.prints-online.com/ and then type Shirley Baker in the search box, hope you enjoy them a smuch as I do
Keep up the good work… many thanks !
Mancunian
Comment by Mancunian — 13 March, 2010 #
Hello Ed, your website is very interesting. You seem to be a very intelligent young man, which is really awesome. God Bless You and May you suceed in everything you undertake. I am just wondering, I don't have the instructions for the Sony wireless controll for the ps3. I am not a kid, I am a lady who is trying to watch a good Blue Ray movie, but I can't seem to get it going. Do you think you could possibly help me out. All I need to know is what each button on the controll er stands for. I do appreciate you even taking the time to read my message. Thanks… Marie
Comment by eiraml — 18 March, 2010 #
Dear Ed
A year ago, I started oil-paining and my main area of interest is landscapes. I often look for inspiration in photographs and, having looked at your site, I fully accept that photography is a skilled art-form. You seem to have cracked it really properly and your photographs give me deep joy (an old Stanley Unwin expression!). I have only looked at Derbyshire and Scotland so far but will look at the rest shortly.
I was surprised at how young you are, as I thought Ed O'Keefe must be a seasoned professional (i.e much older).
I like to fish a love to see herons and other wildlife so your pictures of herons really impressed me.
I know sometimes people spoil their hobby by making it their job, but I think you should be paid for your work and should exploit this (if you havn't already) and you should never stop taking pictures. If I wasn't as poor as a church mouse, I would buy some of them!
Meanwhile, I am half Scottish (that half evolved in the Newton Stewart area) and half English (London origins). I am still young too (at only 54 going on 55) and have a wonderful family including my 6yr old daughter Katie who was one of the smallest surving babies at 1 pound and half an ounce) and my wife Sara.
I know you said you live in Manchester, but where were your origins? (or did I not read your stuff properly?).
I hope you do/did well in your studies and wish you great fortune for your future.
I will benefit from more of the “deep joy” of looking at your photos.
Regards
Richard Madgin Snr (as 30yr old little Richard Madgin is also an artist).
Comment by richardmadgin — 8 May, 2010 #
Dear Ed,
Are you the photographer who took photos of Mercedes, the polar bear, now in the Highland Wildlife Park? If so, they’re really fantastic.
I love bears and am always looking them up on the
WWW.
Princess Maria
Stratford-London, E15 4PR.
Comment by Princess Maria Sviatopolk-Mirski — 20 July, 2010 #