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 Nikon digital SLR cameras. Mostly from around 2004 onwards.

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 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…